Oct 3 9:45 PM

How did Ross Ulbricht allegedly become an online drug kingpin?

A bag of marijuana at the Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on December 19, 2011.
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Drugs, other illegal items were allegedly sold on hidden website "Silk Road"

Ross Ulbricht, 29, of San Francisco is charged by federal prosecutors with running Silk Road, an underground marketplace that made $1.2 billion in sales between 2011 and 2013. Nicolas Christin, an assistant research professor in electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and Michael Taylor, a computer science professor at University of California, San Diego, join Consider This host Antonio Mora to discuss the case.  

What's come of U.S. diplomatic gestures to Syria, Russia, Iran?
Nader Hashemi of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, who co-edited "The Syria Dilemma," and David Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters columnist, join Antonio Mora to talk about the United States' recent efforts at diplomacy.  

Funding the battle against Alzheimer's disease

Carol Steinberg, the president of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, joins Antonio Mora to talk about how the U.S. is dealing with the expected rise in costs of Alzheimer's care over the next few decades.

Mexican comedian strikes Hollywood gold

"Instructions Not Included," directed by and starring Eugenio Derbez, has attracted Latino audiences and is now the fourth highest-grossing foreign language film in the United States. Stacy Spikes, the CEO of MoviePass and the founder of the Urbanworld Film Festival, and Bill Wyman, an Al Jazeera culture critic, join Antonio Mora to talk about how films marketed to minorities are resulting in box office success.

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