Obamacare enrollment starts Oct. 1: What you need to know

As enrollment period nears, Affordable Care Act faces many challenges

House Republicans want to defund the Affordable Care Act before enrollment in the new health care exchanges begins on October 1. What other challenges could health care reform face? Jennifer Haberkorn, a health care reporter for Politico, and Jonathan Cohn, the author of "Sick" and a senior editor for The New Republic, join Consider This host Antonio Mora to discuss the latest.

Is Iran's new charm offensive for real?  

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to make a speech before the UN General Assembly next week. In an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post, Rouhani wrote that he wants to see "constructive interaction" with the United States and other world leaders. Could Rouhani's words mark a new direction for Iranian diplomacy? Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters columnist David Rohde and Guy Ziv, an American University professor and the founder of the Israel National Security Project, discuss with Antonio Mora.

Urban myths in the Internet age

The website Snopes.com has tried to distinguish online fact from fiction since 1996. Why are urban myths so common online and what is being done to disprove them? Robert Thompson, the director of Syracuse University's Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, and Michael Shermer, the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, join Antonio Mora to explore this topic.

"Do the Math": New doc on carbon emissions and global warming

Is there a tipping point where carbon emissions from fossil fuel could raise Earth's temperature and endanger life? The new documentary "Do the Math" calls for a halt to the fossil fuel industry. Antonio Mora will speak with the film's co-directors, Jared P. Scott and Kelly Nyks.