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We begin with the president about to sign two executive orders on equal pay and the Senate voting on the Paycheck Fairness Act on Tuesday which is being deemed “Equal Pay Day” because it represent how many days woman have to work into 2014 to catch up with men, we discuss the gender wage gap with Heidi Hartmann. She is the President of the Washington-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research and a Research Professor at the George Washington University and the author of “Still a Man’s Labor Market: The Long-Time Earnings Gap” and “Equal Pay for Working Families; and Survival at the Bottom”.

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Then, with 814 million people eligible to vote in elections underway in India, we examine the possibility of Narendra Modi, a right-wing nationalist becoming the leader of the world’s largest democracy. Dr. Sumit Ganguly the Chair of Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University in Bloomington joins us to discuss the appeal of the BJP leader Modi, who in an American context could be compared to Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin, and the electorate’s disgust with the corruption-plagued dynastic rule of the Gandhi family’s Congress Party which has dominated Indian politics since independence.  

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Then finally we speak with Charles Gati, a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a former senior advisor to the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff. He joins us to discuss the reelection of the right-wing nationalist party in Hungary led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban who is scornful of Western criticism and is biting the hand that is feeding him, the E.U., while cozying up to Vladimir Putin. We look into Orban’s electoral victory and the party even further to his right Jobbik, which got one in five Hungarian votes.

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We begin with the latest shooting a Fort Hood, Texas that has left four people dead, including the gunman and 16 others wounded, three of whom are critical. Joining us is Kayla Williams, the author of a new book about dealing with Post Traumatic Stress disorder PTSD, from military service in Iraq, “Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War”. She served in the U.S. Army for five years as an Arabic Linguist, including a year in Iraq with the 101^st Airborne Division and we discuss this tragedy and its impact on military families, as well as examine the links, if any between violence and PTSD.

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Then we examine the details of the Supreme Court ruling overturning limits on campaign funding in McCutcheon versus the FEC with Jessica Levinson, a Professor at Loyola Law School who has an article at the Los Angeles Times “Supreme Court Ruling: As if we don’t have enough money in politics already”. We discuss what partisan advantage might come out of the ruling in this case that was brought to the Supreme Court by the Republican National Committee, and assess how many average citizens in this country can afford to give the low end $5,200 to a candidate, let alone the millions now allowed to candidates, parties and political committees.

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Then finally, with the American who spied for Israel, Jonathan Pollard, now at the center of a storm over who is scuttling the Israeli/Palestinian peace talks, we will speak with M.E. “Spike” Bowman. He was at the time of Pollard’s arrest and trial, the liaison officer for the Department of Defense to the Department of Justice, and the coordinator of an investigation into the extent of Pollard’s damage to the American intelligence community. We discuss comparisons of Edward Snowden with Jonathan Pollard, and why it is that Pollard is a hero in Israel.