Chris Kelly writes for HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. He won an Emmy for his work on Michael Moore’s TV Nation. He’s been an editor at Spy and the National Lampoon, a staff writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, head writer at Politically Incorrect, and a writer/producer on a half dozen network situation comedies, some long-running and some that barely aired at all.
ZACK FORD is the LGBTQ editor for Thing Progress.
Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling tells us what you call a Native American Jewish Bowler, and then answers the rest of life’s biggest questions.
Is America a prison state? While America makes up only five percent of the world’s population, we house twenty percent of the world’s prisoners. Fourteen million Americans are arrested each year, 2.1 million are in prison, and one third of all Americans have an arrest record. We discuss the new bipartisan criminal justice reform bill that Trump is about to sign with Professor Roger Lancaster who has written several pieces for Jacobin on America’s prisons. Professor Lancaster says despite this new legislation.
Senator Elizabeth Warren can beat Donald Trump, but Howie Klein from Down With Tyranny says the most recent polls tells us Senator Bernie Sanders has a better chance than Warren.
Radio Financial Planner Dave Ramsey does not provide the best advice, so says Washington Post Columnist Helaine Olen, author of Pound Foolish.