James Carden, a contributing editor at The American Conservative and a former State Department adviser, discusses the neoconservative journalists who are pushing an ultra-hawkish US policy on Russia and Ukraine while trying to get their critics blacklisted.

Jordan Smith, a journalist with The Intercept, discusses Lester Bower's imminent execution on Texas's death row for his conviction on quadruple-murder charges in 1983 - even though serious doubts about his guilt have arisen since then.

Brian McGlinchey, director of 28Pages.org, discusses Rand Paul's introduction of Senate Bill 1471; legislation that will urge President Obama to declassify the 28 pages on foreign government links to the 9/11 hijackers.

Ghada Morad discusses the police killing of her brother Feras Morad in Long Beach, California; and how the local NBC station edited a witness's interview to better support the police department's version of events.

Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, discusses his article about Ross Ulbricht, the 31-year-old former operator of the Silk Road online marketplace, who was given the extremely harsh sentence of life in prison without parole for facilitating black-market transactions.