Interview with Delcianna Winders, director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law and Graduate School, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.

Since it became law in 1973, the Endangered Species Act has used a broad definition of “harm” to animals by including any significant “modification or degradation” of habitat that kills or injures animals by impairing their ability to eat, shelter or breed. But on July 10, the Trump administration’s Interior Department and Commerce Department announced a final rule that rescinded this longstanding interpretation. Here Delcianna Winders talks about the devastating impact of the new rule on endangered and threatened species.

Interview with Daniel HoSang, professor of American studies and political science at Yale University and president of the Yale chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP.)

Professor HoSang discusses his work with the group “Stand Up For Yale,” which has circulated petitions on campus and urged Yale President Maurie McInnis and the Board of Trustees to reject a pending settlement between Yale University and the Trump administration—as the dean of the Yale Law School, students and other faculty members are working to stop the deal. HoSang’s most recent book is titled, A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone.

Interview with Robert Weiner, director of the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, conducted by Scott Harris.

Robert Weiner examines how President Trump’s termination of two members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and forced resignation of the remaining Republican commissioner fits in with President Trump’s recent televised speech repeating conspiracy theories about foreign interference in U.S. elections, issuing voter suppression executive orders, demanding states turn over sensitive voting data, launching DOJ investigations, and proposed “SAVE America Act” legislation. All these actions together threaten the integrity of the November 2026 midterm election, in what many believe reveals the president’s intention to interfere with, and/or manipulate the outcome of the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

Interview with Juan Proaño, CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens or (LULAC), conducted by Scott Harris.

Juan Proaño discusses the ongoing violence by ICE agents across the U.S. that’s most recently resulted in two fatal ICE shootings in Houston, Texas, and Biddeford, Maine, where he leads the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). LULAC is demanding immediate transparency, independent investigations, and an end to the Trump administration enabling federal law enforcement officers “hunting for Latinos.”

Interview with Doug Moss, founder of Earth Action Network, Inc., conducted by Scott Harris.

Doug Moss discusses his new goplant-based.org billboard project, which launched on July 20th to educate the public about the evils of animal factory farming, which is linked to climate change, pollution, and is a major obstacle to addressing world hunger and global water shortages. Doug is the founder of Earth Action Network, which published the award-winning E: The Environmental Magazine for many years, and the nationally-syndicated Q&A environmental column, earthtalk.org.

The Roundtable talks with David Dayen, Executive Editor of The American Prospect Magazine about the Democratic Senate primary battles in Maine and Michigan; and then welcome Michelle Jimenez, vice president of the Yale College Council to talk about the fight to fend off the Trump administration's attempt to coerce the university to bow to anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Yale medical and law schools.
Panel: Ruthanne Baumgartner, Scott Harris and Richard Hill

Interview with Marcel Reid, a longtime whistleblower advocate and co-founder and director of the Annual Whistleblower Summit & Film Festival, conducted by Scott Harris.

Marcel Reid, a longtime whistleblower advocate who was national director and chairman of DC ACORN, an elected former director on the national board of the Pacifica Radio network, and co-founder and director of the Annual Whistleblower Summit & Film Festival that will take place this year July 26-July 30 in Washington, D.C.

Interview with Amanda Shanor, associate professor of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Yale Law School graduate, interviewed conducted by Scott Harris.

Amanda Shanor discusses her views on opposition to a pending settlement between Yale University and the Trump administration over White House accusations that Yale’s School of Medicine is illegally discriminating against white and Asian applicants in favor of Black and Hispanic candidates. The Trump regime is threatening the loss of federal funding, as the dean of the Yale Law School, students, faculty members, and alumni are working to stop the deal.