This week on Ring of Fire, Sarah Lazare, Reporter & Web Editor for In These Times magazine, joins Emma to discuss how pharmaceutical companies are threatening desperate nations with retaliation if those nations choose to support vaccine waivers, waivers that would make vaccines more globally equitable... but would cut into big pharma’s profits .

Heather “Digby” Parton will help us run down the biggest new stories of the week

Bonus content you are missing this week; Sam interviews David Wallace-Wells, from New York Magazine, about the safety of our children when it comes to Covid. Become a member at www.rofpodcast.com

This week on Ring of Fire; Doug Henwood, journalist, radio host and author of numerous books, joins us to discuss the rot in this iteration of the ruling class and how we got to this point.

Heather “Digby” Parton will help me run down the biggest new stories of the week

Upgrade to the member show and get this bonus content this week; Sam’s second interview with University of Michigan Law Professor, Leah Litman, about two Supreme Court Rulings that will be devastating to our right to vote.

This week on Ring of Fire, Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law Professor and Author of the new book, “Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money,” joins us to discuss President Biden’s anti-monopoly executive orders and why they might actually be kind of a big deal.

Heather “Digby” Parton will help me run down the biggest new stories of the week

Bonus content you are missing this week; Emma talks to Historian, Rick Perlstein, about the rampant streak of right-wing authoritarianism and how it’s been around the Republican Party longer than the insurrection, January 6th.

This week on Ring of Fire, Justin Elliot, from ProPublica, joins us to discuss the ultra-wealthy’s shady schemes to hide gobs of money in Roth IRA’s.

Heather “Digby” Parton will help me run down the biggest new stories of the week

Bonus content you're missing this week; Leah Litman, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, will help us breakdown some of the most important cases currently in front of the Supreme Court .

This week on Ring of Fire, Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of the book, “A Wolf at the School House Door,” and host of the education podcast, “Have You Heard,” joins us to discuss the disasterous impact of anti-critical race theory legislation on educators and how it’s yet another conservative culture war being waged by right-wing money and media.

Heather “Digby” Parton will help me run down the biggest new stories of the week

Bonus content you're missing this week; Lee Fang, from The Intercept, will join us to discuss leaked audio from a West Virginia Senator, Joe Manchin, addressing a group of billionaire supporters, including No Label’s Founder Joe Lieberman. www.rofpodcast.com to become a member!