Is CVS' decision the beginning of the end for cigarettes in the US?

Is CVS' decision the beginning of the end for cigarettes in the US?

Guest: 

Ruth Malone @MaloneRuth 
Editor-in-chief of Tobacco Control. Faculty member of the Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education at the University of California, San Francisco. 

Read more about CVS' decision, via Al Jazeera America. 

Investor Jim Rogers talks about the state of the U.S. economy, stock markets

Guest: 

Jim Rogers @AllJimRogers
Author of "Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets." Co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros. 

Pussy Riot members play at Amnesty International event in New York

Consider This correspondent Gianna Toboni spoke with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina on Wednesday. Both women were imprisoned in Russia for performing an anti-Putin punk song in a Moscow church.  

Read about a prior Consider This interview with Tolokonnikova's husband, Pyotr Verzilov, while Tolokonnikova was in prison. 

"Tiger Mom" Amy Chua speaks on what makes some cultural groups in the U.S. more successful than others 

Guest:

Amy Chua @AmyChua
Co-author of "The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America," and author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother."

Learn more about Chua's book. 

Will Obamacare lead to job loss?

A new report by the Congressional Budget Office has reignited the debate over the economic impact of the president’s signature health care law. 

Guest: 

Jonathan Cohn @CitizenCohn 
Senior editor of The New Republic and the author of "Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis — and the People Who Pay the Price."

Are humans prepared for a "second machine age"?

Guest: 

Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn
Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and co-author of "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies."

Learn more via a Web exclusive Consider This Q & A with Erik Brynjolfsson.

Oscar-nominated doc "Facing Fear" shows gay man befriending the former Neo-Nazi who attacked him

Matthew Bolger was 14 years old when he was beat up by a group of skinheads, including 17-year-old Tim Zaal, in West Hollywood, Calif. Twenty-five years later, the victim and his attacker met again. 

Guests: 

Jason Cohen
Director of "Facing Fear."

Matthew Boger and Tim Zaal
Subjects of "Facing Fear." 

Learn more about the documentary. 

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