08/12/11

It’s Casual Friday!

On the show today we have our favorite Friday guest, Cliff Schecter (@CliffSchecter)! After last night’s Republican debate, this should be a can’t miss.

We also have a brand new song from the Screaming Majority (Matt’s note: personally, I think there best EVER) and a brand new song from the one and only, Jimmy Reefercake (@JimmyReefercake)!

PLUS, good news for you Chris Rosen haters! He WON’T be joining us today. Instead, Sam will play his interview with Marc Maron (@MarcMaron)…live at the Cat Ranch from last week!

08/11/2011

Bruce E. Levine joins us today to talk about his latest article at Alternet, 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance.

Lots more to talk about, including the massive response we’ve received over our London Riot conversations and the YouTube video we posted on it yesterday!

BONUS! A surprise call from Katherine Harris (Janeane Garofalo)!

08/09/2011

Fresh off the announcement of his new show on MSNBC, Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) of the Nation (@thenation) will be joining us today!

Wisconsin, don’t forget! Recall elections are today!

08/08/2011

Happy Monday, all!

Sam has returned from Los Angeles. We have two great interviews lined up for you today! First, Jeff Madrick author of Age of Greed, The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970-Present will be on the show. Then joining us is Laura Clawson (@LauraClawson) of the DailyKos(@DailyKos)!

08/05/2011

It's casual friday - Sam's on the road but pulls it off with aplumb. Cliff Schecter and Chris Rosen round out the week-- great show!

08/04/2011

Sam is on the road and expereincing some tech difficulties but Digby joins him to discuss how the debt deal disaster has only just begun.

08/03/2011

Sam’s in Los Angeles today, getting ready to be on with The Young Turks for the day! We have another great BRAND NEW pre-taped show for you today. TWO great interviews today. First up, an interview with author Frank Schaeffer. Following that, an interview with 350.org founder, Bill McKibben.

08/02/2011

Sam is up in the air right now, flying to Los Angeles and has informed us that his plan to broadcast live from the plane has been foiled. However! Being ever prepared for any such situation, Sam has an entire show ready to go for you all! Today's show features can't miss interviews with Bill Lazonick and Steve Edwards. Be sure to listen!

08/01/2011

I’m not sure what’s more outrageous. The fact that it’s already August or the fact we’ve supposedly had “bipartisan” compromise in the debt deal. Sam has a lot to talk about today with the latest debt deal happenings and other items in the news. Ezra Klein is our guest for today!

07/29/2011

It’s Casual Friday! Did July fly by or what?

On the show today we have our favorite Friday regulars, Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) and senior editor of Movieline.com, Chris Rosen (@42inchtv)! We also have a brand new song from Screaming Majority and Jimmy Reefercake (@JimmyReefercake) has sent us over one of his “Reefer Classic” tunes.

07/28/11

We have a great show for you this Thursday! A lot going on...a lot to talk about.

David Roberts (@drgrist) of Grist Magazine (@Grist) joins us to talk about the Tim Dechristopher sentence for interfereing with a Governement Land Auction to oil companies and the future of civil disobedience by environmentalists. Of course, more coverage of the Republicans hell bent on destroying our economy. Be sure to tune in!

07/27/2011

Happy Hump Day! The debt deal fiasco rages on…and we have another great guest today to talk to about it!

David Weigel, live from an anemic Tea Party Rally, (@daveweigel) of Slate (@Slate) joins us to talk the latest in the screw over the middle class and the poor or "debt" deal.

Also on the show, Laura Clawson (@LauraClawson) of the DailyKos(@DailyKos) on the Republican shutdown of the FAA costing our government 30 million dollars a day. Two can’t miss interviews!

07/26/2011

Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) Washington Bureau Chief of the Huffington Post walks us through what's next with the debt ceiling crisis, will Reid and the Dems prevail? Is this the end of Beohner's Speakership? Do we default? Grim is on the ground and has great contacts. 

07/25/2011

Our favorite guest, Digby (@digby56) is joining us today! We’ll be talking about the debt deal.

07/22/2011

CENK UYGUR of The Young Turks joins us! We’ll be talking about his controversial departure from MSNBC. This is certainly going to be a must listen program. What would Casual Friday be without our Friday regulars? Cliff Schecter and Chris Rosen will, of course, join us too! That’s not all, folks! We also have our Week in Review songs from Jimmy Reefercake and from The Screaming Majority!

07/21/2011

Happy Thursday! We have 2 awesome guests for you all today! First, Ari Berman of The Nation joins us on Elizabeth Warren & the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Then Mike Papantonio of Ring of Fire joins us on the News Corp. Defense.

07/20/2011

Hey Majority Reporters…what’s doing?! David Dayen from firedoglake joins us today on the debt deal!

07/19/2011

It may be the “most humble day” of Rupert Murdoch’s life…but it’s certainly not ours! We have a slew of coverage on the Rupert Murdoch phone hacking inquiry by British Parliament. Jeremey Scahill will be joining us today on the CIA black site in Somalia. Jeremey is the author of the best-selling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Also an update from Ilyse Hogue on the crumbling Murdoch Empire.

Today on the show John Nichols of the Nation! Also on the program, Dean Julie Underwood of UW-Madison Education will be joining us to talk ALEC plans to attack public education.

07/15/2011

It's Casual Friday! Today our favorite Friday regulars, Cliff Schecter and Chris Rosen joins us! What "hidden gem" movie picks does Chris Rosen have for us today? We also have THREE Week in Review songs! First we have a song from the one and only, Jimmy Reefercake! The other two (that's right...TWO!) come from the unstoppable hit makers...The Screaming Majority!

07/14/2011

Today, we have Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch and American Prospect joining us. We'll be talking with him concerning the Guardian story on the CIA using fake vaccination programs as cover in finding Osama bin Laden.

07/13/2011

Today we have Political Editor and White House Correspondent at the Huffington Post, Sam Stein, on the show! We’ll be talking about McConnell’s flinch. And "senator Katherin Harriss" joins us- or does she?

07/12/2011

today we have an interview with Van Jones, co-founder of RebuildtheDream.com, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and American Progress Action Fund.

07/11/2011

Sam is back from vacation and we’re back to our regularly scheduled LIVE programming. We hope you enjoyed the non-stop daily content we had pre-planned for you all last week! Today on the show Brian Buetler of Talking Points Memo will be joining us to talk Debt Negotiation follies. Also joing us, Ilyse Hogue of Media Matters to talk with us on the Murdoch scandals.

07/08/2011

Sam will be back in New York on Monday, but today we have a fantastic pair of interviews for you -- Senator Al Franken and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas.

07/07/2011

Sam's on vacation this week, but we still have brand new interviews for you! Today, Sam talks with John Arovosis of America Blog, as well as foreign bloggers visiting Netroots Nation from across the globe.

07/06/2011 

Susan Saladoff joins us to talk about her movie Hot Coffee and the issues surrounding tort reform in the US.

07/05/2011

Sam's still on vacation, but we've still got two new interviews for you! From Netroots Nation Shannon Moore on Pebble Mine in Alaska and Rick Jacobs from the Courage Campaign

07/04/2011

Happy Independence Day! Sam's on vacation, but from Netroots Nation we have interviews with Justin Krebs of Drinking Liberally/Living Liberally, Jay Tomlinson of the Best of the Left podcast, and David Pakman of the David Pakman Show!

07/01/2011

It's casual friday and Sam is half way to his vacation destination- that means Cliff Schecter, Chris Rosen & tech snafus- great song submissions this week form Screaming Majority and Reffercake and Sam's BJ Snowden salute to Canada!

06/30/2011

Today we have Sam's interview of Jared Bernstein, Vice President Joe Biden's former Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser. Bernstein is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and blogs at jaredbernsteinblog.com.

06/29/2011

Today Max Blumenthal, senior writer for The Daily Beast & author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, is on the show to talk the Israeli government's flotilla smear campaign.

06/28/2011

Today on the program, Maryland Democratic State Senator Jamie Raskin will be joining us to talk the Supreme Court ruling in Arizona. He is also a professor of constitutional law at American University's Washington College of Law where he directs its Program on Law and Government.

06/27/2011 

New York City just seems that much nicer today, now that same sex marriage is legal throughout the entire NY state. Joining us today is author of Why Marriage Matters; America, Equality and Gay People's Right to Marry, Evan Wolfson. He is the founder and executive director of Freedom To Marry.

06/24/2011

The hilarious Michael Ian Black joins us on the show today! We also have our Week in Review song from Dave Benjoya & the Screaming Majority. And, some breaking news: Chris Rosen is NOT on the show today! He is at a very important press conference for the film 'Horrible Bosses'. IMPORTANT SENIOR EDITOR STUFF.

06/23/2011

Fresh off of Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, Matt Taibbi, Political Reporter at Rolling Stone magazine, joins us on the show to talk his Michele Bachmann article and this piece. That's not all! We also have Darius Charney, attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, co-counsel with the Sugar Law Center in Detroit on the case challenging the Emergency Manager Law in Michigan.

06/22/2011

We have Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor of Slate, on the show today, talking about the U.S. Supreme Court.

06/21/2011

We have a great show for you today as Spencer Ackerman of Wired's Danger Room joins us to talk Never Mind the Drawdown.

06/20/2011

One of the Majority Report’s favorite bloggers joins us today…we have Digby on the show!

6/17/2011

Sam broadcasts live from Netroots Nation.

6/16/2011

Live from Netroots Nation 2011...the Majority Report with Sam Seder!

You won't want to miss today's show! Sam is at Netroots Nation (audio AND video streaming!) and be talking to a number of great guests.

On the show today: David Dayen (@ddayen) of firedoglake, Chris Bowers (@ThisBowers) of Dailykos, writer Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte), Gaius Publius (@Gaius_Publius) of AmericaBlog and more!

06/15/2011

Sam fills in for Thom Hartmann on Thom Hartmann's radio show!

06/14/2011

You can bet Sam has something to say concerning last night's Republican debate, but more importantly we have Allison Kilkenny of Citizen Radio joining us today to talk USUncut. We also have a special guest, near Senator Katherine Harriss...

06/13/2011

Sam has plenty to talk about on today’s show including, but certainly not limited to tonight’s Republican debate! This is the first of the debates to include “actual legitimate 2012 Republican candidates”…and Michelle Bachmann.

06/10/2011

Todd Barry (@toddbarry) is on the show today! Of course, also joining us today is our new Friday staple, Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter). Today is also momentous as we find out whether Chris Rosen (@42inchtv) has caught Battlestar Gallactica on Netflix…his Weekend Movie Reviews segment hangs in the balance! That’s not all either as we have another Week in Review song EACH from Jimmy Reefercake (@JimmyReefercake) and the Screaming Majority. A jam packed Friday show from the Majority Report to kick off your weekend.

06/09/2011

Executive Director of the National Security Network, Heather Hurlburt, joins us today to talk about what’s happening in Yemen.

06/08/2011

While we take a tech day, we offer you this never-before-heard interview with Chrystia Freeland of Thomson Reuters on the global elite.

06/07/2011

Sarah Vowell talks about her new book, Unfamiliar Fishes, about the colonization of Hawaii

06/06/2011

John Amato of Crooks and Liars joins us to talk about Delta Airlines' unionbusting strategies.

06/03/2011

More Majority Report than you bargained for. Bobby Kennedy joins us to discuss his upcoming documentary, The Last Mountain, about the fight for a symbol of Labor pride in West Virginia. Cliff Schecter joins us to discuss the week in news, we have new Week in Review Songs, and Chris Rosen fights for his very survival.

06/02/2011

Today we have author Jeff Madrick. discussing his latest book, Age of Greed, The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970-Present. And we couldn’t get through to him yesterday (international calls are tricky, folks), but we have him today! Independent reporter, Ryan Gallagher joins us to talk the New Spanish Revolution.

06/01/2011

Guy Lawson from Rolling Stone magazine joins us to talk about the two Florida kids who armed Afghanistan.

05/31/2011

Today William Hartung joins us to talk about the profits of war, which he writes about in his book, Prophets of War.

05-30-2011

It's Memorial Day. We're off, but we have a new show for you! Labor Negotiator/Attorney Joe Burns joins us to talk about his book, "Reviving the Strike".

05/27/2011

It's casual Friday. Chris Rosen finds the straw that breaks the camel's back and Cliff Schecter joins Sam on the Patriot Act and Joe Scarborough comparing Medicare to his hedonistic fantasies, and Jimmy Reefercake's not quite week in review.

05/25/2011

Today, Robert Cruickshank about his latest article on the Daily Kos, Why aren’t progressives as good at politics as conservatives?

05/25/2011

We have Ari Berman, contributing writer for The Nation, on the show today. We talk about Medicare and the GOP loss in New York's 26th District, The GOP attacks on Elizabeth Warren and the Consumer Financial protection Beureau -as well as the success of the Chrysler bailout and what it means for GOP hopefuls.

05/24/2011

Today, we have Dennis Vanengelsdorp on to discuss what's currently happening with the sudden disappearance of bees. Dennis is Acting State Apiarist for Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture, studying colony collapse disorder. We also discuss a novel new way to deal with corporate whistleblowers.

05/23/2011

Eli Pariser (@EliPariser), former Executive Director of MoveOn.org, joins us today to talk about his new book “The Filter Bubble.”

05/20/2011

Today, Conservatives love spending, if it's for them. We also have Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) and not ONE, not TWO...but THREE week in review songs. Looks like Jimmy Reefercake(@JimmyReefercake) has some competition!

05/19/2011

Today, we have not one, but TWO guests! First, we have Eddie Glaude (@esglaude). He is the chair of the Center for African-American Studies and the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Princeton University. If you haven't read THIS, you should as he'll be on to discuss Cornel West. Our second guest is Matt Duss (@mattduss), who will be calling in live from Tel Aviv! Matt is National Security Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress and will be joining us to talk President Obama's Middle East speech.

05/18/2011

The Supreme Court allows for searches without warrants, while Newt Gingrich continues to put his feet in his mouth.

05/17/2011

Today we have Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi), Political Reporter at Rolling Stone magazine, on the show to talk the People vs. Goldman Sachs, reaction to NY AG Schneiderman’s investigation and more!

05/16/2011

Digby joins us today, we talk about the debt ceiling, the Rapture, and ask, why is Donald Trump still speaking?

05/13/2011

It’s here! It’s finally here! It’s Casual Friday! Did you know today is the ONLY Friday the 13th of the year? Maybe that explains why Evan is out and Matt AKA New Dorsey is running audio, video, & social media today. Something is bound to go wrong!

We have a very special guest today, documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (@morganspurlock)! He’s the man behind great films such as Supersize Me, Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? and his latest: the Greatest Movie Ever Sold.

Also joining us today is Chris Rosen (@42inchtv) with his Weekend Movie Reviews and Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter)! Plus another song from Jimmy Reefercake (@JimmyReefercake). A PACKED SHOW TODAY!

05/12/2011

Siva Vaidhyanathan, on The Googlization of Everything and the horror that is the revolving door at the FCC.

05/11/2011

We have Vicki Abeles, Producer and Co-Director of Race to Nowhere, a film that shines a light on the damaging effects of the so-called Education Reform movement and it's corporatization of our schools.

05/10/2011

Former Senator Alan Simpson found to be evil and stupid.

05/09/2011

Today we try to get conservatives to call in and explain why we need to cut Medicare. And no one seems able. We also talk about the nature of Osama bin Laden's relationship to Pakistan.

05/06/2011

Finally...it's Casual Friday! It's been quite the week, but it's not quite over yet! Today, for the first time, we have an IN STUDIO guest. Cliff Schecter (@CliffSchecter) makes history as he joins us LIVE and in person!

05/05/2011

Happy Cinco de Mayo! What a great day to celebrate...America. President Obama is visiting Ground Zero today minus national party pooper George W. Bush. Daniel Levy, Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, joins us today.

05/04/2011

On today's show, we're bringing you an interview with Dave Murphy (@food_democracy), founder and executive director of Food Democracy Now!

05/03/2011

Today's guest is Lee Papa (@RudePundit), better known as The Rude Pundit to talk about his new book The Rude Pundit's Almanack and the current batch of Republican 2012 hopefulls.

05/02/2011

Sam welcomes back Heather Hurlburt, Executive Director of the National Security Network and former Special Assistant and Speechwriter to President Clinton to talk about that little bit of news that happened last night.

04/29/2011

It’s Casual Friday! We’ve got BOTH Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) and Chris Rosen (@42inchtv) on the show for you today. And the first Jimmy Reefercake's News in Review.

04/29/2011

We have Nicole Sandler (@NicoleSandler) on the show today. We’ll hear from her about her arrest at an Allen West town hall meeting on Tuesday (full video at the link). Nicole hosts a progressive radio show at Radio or Not.

4/27/2011

On today's show,Dr. David Ansell, author of "County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospitals" about his medical education in Chicago's Cook County Hospital set against a backdrop of race, segregation and poverty.

04/26/2011

Bill Scher (@billscher), Online Campaign Manager at Campaign for America’s Futureand executive editor of LiberalOasis.com, is on the show today to talk about theDon’t Make Us Work ‘Til We Die! campaign.

04/25/2011

Sam is back from Vegas and we are LIVE today. What better way to start your week? If Sam’s return wasn’t enough for you, our guest today is Huffington Post political reporter Sam Stein (@SamSteinHP) to catch Sam up after a week vacation.

04/22/2011

It's here! It's finally here! It's Friday! Sam will be back on Monday and we will be live. To hold you over until then, we have a brand new interview with Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum, followed by author David Sirota. Have a great weekend!

04/21/2011

As we're inching towards the weekend, Sam's vacation is inching to a close. While you wait, feed your hunger for Monday's live show with this brand new interview Sam had with author James Howard Kunstler.

04/20/2011

Sam's away, but the podcasts will stay. Today, Sam interviews Ellen Rupple Shell, journalist with the Atlantic and author of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture.

04/19/2011

Sam's away, but that doesn't mean you wont get some brand new Majority Report! Today Sam talks education reform with noted author and education expert Alfie Kohn.

04/18/2011

Sam is on vacation, but the Majority Report never sleeps. Today, Sam interviews Johann Hari (@johannhari101) on UK Uncut, and what resistance to austerity means for Americans. Johann Hari's writing can be found at johannhari.com/

4/14/2011

Obama speaks and though he accepts the non sensical premise that the deficit matters now, he at least calls for increased tax revenue. Sam's live in Vegas with Cliff Schecter and pension fund advocate Peter Mougey.

4/13/2011

Sam may be en route to Las Vegas today, but that doesn't mean we didn't plan ahead! We have a great, brand new show for you today. We have an interview with Ari Berman, contributing writer for The Nation

4/12/2011

Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate and Contributing Editor at Newsweek, talks to Sam about the Supreme Court, and Sam asks the audience for their favorite recipies involving cat food.

4/11/2011

Digby of Hullabaloo joins Sam to talk abut the Democrats' capitulation on the budget, and what it means going forward.

4/8/2011

It's Casual Friday! Sam may be out enjoying the Red Sox home opener today, but it doesn't mean we haven't set up two great interviews for you. Today, Chris Rosen (finally) gives his review of Sam's "Who's the Caboose." Then we have a great interview with US Uncut organizer, Duncan Meisel.

4/7/2011

Will the Government shut down? We talk about it, and try out our shiny new phone system on today's show.

4/6/2011

Political Editor from The Progressive, Ruth Conniff (@rconniff), calls in from Wisconsin to talk with us about the close Wisconsin Supreme Court race between David Prosser and JoAnne Kloppenburg.

4/5/2011

Today we discuss the budget, America’s wealth disparity, and whether or not the government will be functioning come Friday.

4/4/2011

David Dayen (@ddayen) from firedoglake joins us to discuss the big bank’s foreclosure fraud and the 60 Minutes piece last night. Then comedian Sara Benincasa (@sarajbenincasa) discusses the Roe on the Rocks Planned Parenthood event she is hosting tonight at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC at 7:00pm!

4/1/2011

It's Casual Friday, full of GOP April Fools.

3/31/2011

It's semi-casual Thursday. Wes Cheek joins us for his last dispatch from Japan, and a special guest joins us to celebrate the 7th Anniversary of the Majority Report.

3/30/2011

Today, Wes Cheek is live from Japan, plus an interview with media critic Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR and author of Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media.

3/29/2011

Today, Wes Cheek reports from Japan, and Jeff Bryant of the Campaign for America’s Future discusses education reform with Sam

3/28/2011

Jeremy Scahill of the Nation joins us to talk abotu Libya and Yemen, and Wes Cheek calls in with a live report from Japan.