Big Picture Panel: George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom & Julio Rivera, Reactionary Times/Newsmax/Right Wing News/Politichicks. Conservatives are supposed to be the defenders of stability and order. So how can they possibly defend Donald Trump's reckless threat to nuke North Korea into oblivion?

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom talks to Julio Rivera of Reactionary Times and George Landrith of Frontiers of Freedom about Trump’s rhetoric towards North Korea, and evidence that the Trump administration wants to suppress the vote and purge voters from the rolls. Then, Thom talks to journalist and author Rick Wartzman about the gradual disappearance of good jobs in America, and if there’s any way to bring them back.

Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown/Democracy At Work. The Texas Observer has a fascinating article out about Von Ormy, Texas, which was taken over by libertarians and turned into a laboratory for their anti-government philosophy. The experiment has been a disaster. Van Ormy's police department lost accredidation, and its fire department collapsed. Stray animals roam the streets. If this is what libertarianism actually looks like in practice, why does it continue to fascinate so many Americans? Isn't it as discredited as flat earther theories?

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom discusses incarceration in the U.S. and prison reintegration programs with Dr. Baz Dreisinger, author and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Then, Thom talks to Shelby Emmet of Project 21 and Valerie Ervin of the Working Families Party about Trump’s lack of response to a terrorist attack in Minnesota and the coming monopolization of local TV stations by Sinclair Broadcasting.