Even as most Americans have figured out that they do not like the tea party, its clout has grown in Washington and state capitals, writes Theda Skocpol.

Bill recommends investigative journalist Julia Angwin's new book, Dragnet Nation, and reflects on the striking similarities between some classic dystopian novels and America today.

One teacher's perspective on today's data-driven education system.

And Mother Jones reporter Dana Liebelson has been tracking the trend.

The new trusts of our modern Gilded Age -- Amazon, Google, Apple -- are very different from the old ones, writes George Packer.

Government officials and city planners are beginning to see the low-cost option as one viable solution for addressing homelessness.

We asked a number of people, including Andrew Bacevich, Henry Giroux, Juan Cole, Danielle Brian and others, to share their reactions to Mike Lofgren's essay analyzing the Deep State.

The scholar notes that "if absolute power corrupts absolutely, invisible power corrupts invisibly," but says that the Deep State apparatus is vulnerable to a vigilant public.

The bond between the private security industry and the government is soldered by plutocracy, perpetual war, reduction of industrial capacity, US exceptionalism and political malfunction.

In this week's show, Mike Lofgren joins Bill to talk about the Deep State, a hybrid of corporate America and the national security state, which is "out of control" and "unconstrained."