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"Lighting a Fuse to the Biggest Carbon Bomb"

April 6, 2013
In Deep with Angie Coiro
Hour 1

Angie returns for an hourlong discussion on the Keystone XL Pipeline. First, she is joined by Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones to find out who the key players are when it comes to Keystone, what concerns we should have about the pipeline and to discuss what approving the pipeline would say about Obama and his stance on climate change. Then, George Zornick of The Nation stops in to explain tar sands, what we know (and don't know) about the oil being moved through the pipeline and when he thinks a decision will be made.

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Politics You Can Dance To

March 30, 2013
In Deep with Angie Coiro
Hour 1

This hour, guest host Peter B. Collins takes a look at socially conscious music. He is joined in studio by music legend Country Joe McDonald, who shares his history of "protest music" and  its ties to the labor movement, the difference between good music and propaganda and the art and political protest of hip hop music. Then, Alex Seitz-Wald, political reporter at Salon, joins Peter B. to share how the modern hip hop scene is evolving into a less homophobic place.

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SCOTUS and Equality

March 30, 2013
In Deep with Angie Coiro
Hour 1

Guest host Peter B. Collins spends this hour with John Lewis, legal director of Marriage Equality USA, and Anna North, senior editor at BuzzFeed, discussing the Supreme Court's hearings on Prop 8 and DOMA and the legal standing of these cases.

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37 Messages to Young People Who Don't Believe in Marriage Equality

 

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Patent Trolling

March 23, 2013
In Deep with Angie Coiro
Hour 2

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CPAC: The Superbowl of Liberal Blogging

March 23, 2013
In Deep with Angie Coiro
Hour 1

This hour, guest host Peter B. Collins takes on the "clown college for conservative" or CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference). Adele Stan, Washington bureau chief for AlterNet, and Alex Seitz-Wald, Washington staff writer for Salon, join the conversation to explain CPAC's history, what we can learn about dynamics within the party, which issues conservatives will stick with and why the recent glorification of Rand Paul matters.

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Community Based Food Systems

March 16, 2013
In Deep with Angie Coiro
Hour 2

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A Trip to the Lions' Den: Why Do Liberals Go on Fox News?

March 16, 2013
In Deep with Angie Coiro
Hour 1

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The Rise of Internet TV

March 9, 2013
In Deep with Angie Coiro
Hour 1

This week In Deep's executive producer Gordon Whiting and producer Forrest Phillips fill in for Angie to talk internet tv. Digital anthropologist, author and journalist Frank Rose shares his thoughts on whether a major change is coming to the way we watch television, "binge viewing" and whether the delivery of programming matters. Tekzilla host and producer Veronica Belmont talks cord cutting, a la carte vs cable subscriptions and what it takes to make it in internet tv.

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The Future of Cities

February 16, 2013
In Deep with Angie Coiro
Hour 2

How do we transform our cities to be sustainable and provide prosperity? This hour, Angie is joined in studio by Alex Steffen (futurist and author of Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities That Can Save the Planet) to discuss our planet's sustainability issues, the parklet movement, bright green environmentalism and the "Age of the Car."

 

Links to Check Out

Worldchanging

Ted Talk: The Route to a Sustainable Future

Ted Talk: The Shareable Future of Cities

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A Manufactured Crisis: The USPS

February 16, 2013
In Deep with Angie Coiro
Hour 1

This hour, Angie is joined in studio by Harvey Smith (president of the New Deal Preservation Association; advisor to the Living New Deal; member of Save the Berkeley Post Office) and Dave Johnson (fellow at Campaign For America's Future) for a panel discussion on whether the United States Postal Service is really in a state of crisis and who is really to blame for their budget woes.

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