This is Hell!

Writers Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace examine the causes and consequences of America’s century-long drug war in Mexico. Jeff Dorchen comes clean about his severe addiction to independence.

Historian David Sehat explains why Americans should declare independence from the founding fathers. David is author of The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible from Simon & Schuster. Live from Seoul, Marc Flury reports on land conflicts happening across Asia’s oceans. In addition to disputed Asian islands, we’ll be talking with Marc about his upcoming video game THUMPER.

CEPR's Dan Beeton exposes the hidden side of US involvement in Latin America. Dan Beeton is a contributor to The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire from Verso Books. Activist Fanny Malinen examines the "illegitimate, illegal and odious" nature of Greek debt. Fanny wrote the Red Pepper article Breaking with creditors’ power: the importance of the Greek debt audit.

Youth labor advocate Rhiannon Colvin looks to the future of work and wage. Municipal finance analyst Saqib Bhatti debunks the Detroit austerity playbook.

Writer and activist Arundhati Roy tells a ghost story about capitalism, caste and democracy. / Policy analyst Sarah Anderson previews a post-TPP global economic landscape.

Syriza's win translated / Guantanamo murder exposed / Severed heads explained / Chicago sold off / PLUS: Indigenous land rights won, and elitism for everyone.

Racism fuels austerity in Bulgaria / Racism fuels ideas about race / Boko Haram, Nigeria and Western misconceptions / PLUS: Priced out of civil law, Good news from Haiti and Bootstrapping the rich.

Foreign policy from the shadows / A history of police violence / A Greek vote against austerity / Global drug warstories PLUS: Beer giants melt down and the Pope's coffee maker

CIA secrecy on trial / Tropical Sadness / Burma's resistance fighters / NYPD Union lessons / Running after Haiti's quake / The free market's final solution / Entropy loses steam

Chuck's favorite interviews from 2014.

The most clicked interviews of 2014

Slavery jumpstarts American capitalism / Profiling Palestinian resistance / Walking away from war / Microbrew macroeconomics / PLUS: Fracking the public and Torturing Cheney logic

Islamic State’s modern rise / Post-capitalist progress / PLUS: Finding Ferguson in Brazil, Harvesting opium in Afghanistan, Third World First World problems and the Give/get conundrum.

Political corruption in public life / Private security carves up Detroit / Obama's Trans-Pacific partners / The future of labor. PLUS: Militarizing Vermont, Deflating Ohio and Game of musical thrones

Behind the Ayotzinapa massacre / The tribal case against Keystone XL