This week on Ring of Fire; Allan Sloan, business journalist and columnist for the Washington Post, joins Emma to discuss Trump’s effect on the debt and deficit, the hypocrisy of the Republican Party, and we’ll get into some differences on economic theory.

And Heather “Digby” Parton will join us to discuss the end of the Trump Presidency and the beginning of the Biden Administration.

This week on Ring of Fire, Angelo Carusone, President of Media Matters, will join us to discuss President Trump’s permanent ban from Twitter and other social media companies.

And Heather “Digby” Parton will join us to discuss the 2nd impeachment of Donald Trump.

This week on Ring of Fire, Waleed Shahid from Justice Democrats joins us to discuss his piece in The Nation, “A Blueprint for Social Movements During the Biden Presidency.”

And Heather “Digby” Parton will join us to recap what can only be described as a rollercoaster of a start to 2021.

This week on Ring of Fire, Emma Vigeland talks to Branko Marcetic, a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, about the false choice between “fighting a pandemic” vs “saving the economy.”

And Heather “Digby” Parton will help Sam wrap up this year’s show as they discuss the Trump Presidency and the characters that enabled him for the past 4 years.

This week on Ring of Fire we will talk to Matthew Clair, Associate Professor of History at Stanford University, about the history of the public defender and their roll in the current justice system.

And Heather “Digby” Parton will join us to discuss another bizarre week in the news.