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Final Thought
Ali Velshi on the successes of Obamacare and the need for both parties to come together to fix the lingering problems
Ali Velshi on the successes of Obamacare and the need for both parties to come together to fix the lingering problems
Sarah Leah Whitson questions excluding ISIL and Assad from the negotiations when everyone has blood on their hands
On the approach the current Republican presidential candidates have taken on foreign policy
Ali Velshi and Pete Hoekstra discuss what responsibility the US has to counter the refugee crisis
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee responds to critics who say gun control would not have stopped San Bernardino shooters
John Fugelsang on how the gun industry profits from mass shootings
Acknowledging that we should all be pro-police – even in light of a few bad actors – that’s really a third rail
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors on challenging Democratic presidential candidates on black rights
Clay Aiken, Lance Ulanoff and Scottie Nell Hughes discuss the government’s role in stopping the spread of HIV
Ali Velshi on how Saudi authorities are letting a chance to distance themselves from ISIL slip away
Adam May on the Syrian refugee lesson that we have already forgotten
Former Democratic presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig on whether people really care about campaign finance reform
Sabrina Schaeffer, former Rep. Jack Kingston and Christopher Dickey on if the oil giant should be investigated for fraud
Genevieve Wood, Michael Kay and Kevin Powell compare the transgender movement to the civil rights movement
How a single pipeline brought out the worst on all sides of a political debate
The pro-democracy activist and chess grandmaster discusses why the US should help contain the Russian president
David Holbrooke, Nan Hayworth and Sandra Fluke discuss if Planned Parenthood should drop abortions to save its clinics
Long time Middle East Peace Negotiator Dennis Ross breaks down how outside forces can be used to bring peace
David Holbrooke, Nan Hayworth and Sandra Fluke on whether talking with the Taliban to help earthquake victims is OK
Donald Trump’s lack of seriousness on foreign policy is ‘nerve-racking,’ says historian Niall Ferguson
Laura Flanders, Leticia Remauro and Minhaj discuss police use of X-ray van surveillance in New York City
Long time Middle East Peace Negotiator Dennis Ross breaks down how outside forces can be used to bring peace
Clay Aiken, Carrie Sheffield and Jessica Proud discuss whether having guns would protect teachers or make them targets
The man behind the 2005 Prophet Muhammad cartoons that sparked protests in the Muslim world discusses free speech
John Fund and Faiza Patel discuss with Ali Velshi
National Review columnist John Fund and ‘Young Turks’ host Cenk Uygur debate money in politics
Former Rep. Jack Kingston, SiriusXM radio host Karen Hunter and former Staten Island GOP chair Leticia Remauro discuss
Alexander Nekrassov, a former Kremlin adviser, says removing Assad now would be “absolutely disastrous” for Syria
Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz joins Ali Velshi for a special edition of Third Rail
Roxana Saberi talks to Ali Velshi about meeting the first half-black Miss Universe Japan
Kelly Carlin, Joe Watkins and Michael Crowley discuss
Former Gov. Brian Schweitzer, former Rep. Nan Hayworth and First Look Media executive editor Eric Bates discuss
Amy Goodman, Greg Myre and Tara Maller discuss TX man who backed out on joining ISIL but faces up to 30 years in prison
Dr. Saud Anwar, James Woolsey and Mike German debate terror and political correctness
Former CIA Director James Woolsey and former FBI special agent Mike German debate
Curtis Sliwa, Clinton Yates and Julie Gunlock discuss how much police should be trusted
Dr. Saud Anwar, James Woolsey and Mike German debate terror and political correctness
Former CIA Director James Woolsey and former FBI special agent Mike German debate
Tech industry lobbyist Robert Hoffman and Howard University professor Ron Hira debate
German-born tech company founder Bjorn Billhardt, tech industry lobbyist Robert Hoffman and labor expert Ron Hira debate
Anushay Hossain, Avik Roy and Leticia Remauro discuss appointment of undocumented immigrants to CA city advisory board
Djuna Perkins, a campus sexual assault investigator & attorney Andrew Miltenberg, who defends alleged assaulters debate
Harry Shearer, Michelle Bernard and Joe Watkins discuss whether legalizing sex work would encourage exploitation
Leah Gunn Barrett of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke debate
Oubai Shahbandar, Fawaz Gerges and Douglas Ollivant debate
Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, Leah Gunn Barrett and Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke debate campus safety
Former Syrian oppposition adviser Oubai Shahbandar and London School of Economics professor Fawaz Gerges debate
Former covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, former Va. Congressman Tom Davis and journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discuss
Andranik Migranyan, a former adviser to Boris Yeltsin, and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker debate
Mort Zuckerman, Michael Skolnik and Sabrina Siddiqui discuss whether GMO labeling
Genevieve Wood, Mike Sacks and Ahmed Shihab-Eldin debate legality and morality of assisted suicide for healthy people
Ukrainian MP Sergii Leshchenko, former Russian Federation member Andranik Migranyan, and Ambassador Kurt Volker debate
Former Assistant Education Secretary Peter Cunningham and Seattle teacher Jesse Hagopian debate testing
Former Assistant Education Secretary Peter Cunningham and NYU professor Pedro Noguera discuss the public school system
Former Assistant Education Secretary Peter Cunningham and Seattle teacher Jesse Hagopian debate testing
National Review columnist John Fund and ‘Young Turks’ host Cenk Uygur debate money in politics
Former State Department Cuba specialist Vicki Huddleston and activist Omar Lopez Montenegro debate normalizing relations
Former U.S. Cuban affairs head Vicki Huddleston and activist Orlando Gutierrez debate who won the cold war with Cuba
Death Row exoneree Anthony Graves, former Rep. Dan Lungren and defense attorney Lisa Wayne discuss flaws in the system
Former Congressman & CA Attorney General Dan Lungren and criminal defense attorney Lisa Wayne debate
Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford and Syrian political activist Ammar Waqqaf debate
Former Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi, activist Ammar Waqqaf and Ambassador Robert Jordan debate
Journalist Maria Hinojosa, Forbes.com political contributor Rick Ungar and SiriusXM host Andrew Wilkow discuss
PBS host Tavis Smiley, constitutional law scholar Alan Dershowitz and civil liberties attorney Faiza Patel discuss
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, National Review’s John Fund and ‘Young Turks’ host Cenk Uygur discuss
Journalist Maria Hinojosa, Forbes.com contributor Rick Ungar and SiriusXM host Andrew Wilkow discuss affirmative consent
Maajid Nawaz, David Sirota and Michelle Bernard debate whether a shorter campaign season would benefit voters
Analyst Raed Jarrar and former Ambassadors Peter Galbraith and Feisal Istrabadi debate the impact of US policy in Iraq
Tom Doherty, Elmira Bayrasli and Dave Zirin debate whether it’s because men are better athletes
Former Iraqi Ambassador Feisal Istrabadi and former US Ambassador Peter Galbraith discuss sectarian violence in Iraq
NSA whistleblower William Binney, former NSA lawyer Robert Deitz and Faisal Gill, who was surveilled by the NSA, debate
Richard Socarides, Hugh Hewitt and Alexis McGill Johnson discuss South Africa’s failure to detain Sudan’s Bashir
NSA whistleblower William Binney and former NSA general counsel Robert Deitz debate
Kai Wright, Sebastian Junger and Genevieve Wood discuss the Vatican secretary of state’s comment on Ireland vote
LGBT advocate Cathy Renna, PR and branding expert Marvet Britto and national security lawyer Mark Zaid discuss
Robert Hunter, Michael Pillsbury and Peter Van Buren debate effectiveness of US foreign policy in the Middle East
Atheist scholar Daniel Dennett, evangelical Christian Larry Alex Taunton and Muslim scholar Imam Zaid Shakir debate
Brown University professor Tricia Rose, TV host Larry Elder and Rutgers University professor Brittney Cooper debate
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