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Part 1

We begin with an analysis of the recent landmark Supreme Court decision on healthcare with Aziz Huq, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. While liberals are celebrating the Robert’s ruling, he argues in an article at The Nation, “In the Healthcare Decision, A Hidden Threat”, that there are idiosyncratic libertarian ideals inserted in the law that could explode into much larger and more harmful doctrines.

Part 2

Then we go to London to investigate a series of banking scandals involving muni-bond bid-rigging that enabled bankers and traders to rob the public to create bonuses for themselves. Economist Stephany Griffith Jones, the Financial Markets Program Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, joins us to discuss the latest financial scandal that may be the tip of another iceberg the titans of Wall Street are heading for.

Part 3

Then we go to Oaxaca, Mexico to speak with Fabien Tepper, an independent journalist who witnessed massive protests in the town square yesterday, when students and workers, who wanted to vote for the PRD candidate Lopez Obrador, were denied ballots.

Part 4

Then finally we speak with an official observer who is monitoring the Mexican elections, Pamela Starr, the Director of the US-Mexico Network at USC and a former professor of Latin American political economy at the private university ITAM in Mexico City. She has an article at ForeignAffairs.com “What Mexico’s Election Means for the War on Drugs”.

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the Supreme Court’s unexpected ruling upholding Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act. First John Dean joins us to discuss the legal reasoning behind the Court’s 5 to 4 decision. He is the former Counsel to President Nixon, and was chief Minority Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee and Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States.

Part 2

Then Dr. Susan Wood joins us to discuss what the Affordable Care Act means for women and children, who would have suffered most of the impact of its repeal. She is a Professor of Health Policy and Executive Director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

Part 3

Then we hear from Paul Starr who is a Pulitzer-Prize winning Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and was a Senior Advisor to the Clinton health plan and is the author of “Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar Struggle Over Health Care Reform”. We discuss how the Affordable Care Act will be enacted in the face of Republican resistance and Mitt Romney’s vow to repeal it on his first day in office.

Part 4