Episode #08099

Civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander discusses her book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." (05:17)

Tags:  Michelle Alexander,  interviews,  books,  civil rights,  ethnic,  profiling,  prison,  discrimination,  war on drugs,  Ronald Reagan,  statistics,  David Simon,  poverty,  don't see color,  African American,  legalization,  marijuana,  violence,  laws,  Islamic,  police business,  crime,  stereotypes,  history

Episode #08097

A mysterious Florida rival challenges Stephen's dominance in the world of super secret Super PAC-ing. (06:59)

Tags:  Colbert Super PAC,  Florida,  Jimmy,  on location,  investigations,  money,  fundraising,  Bigfoot,  Animal Planet,  apologies,  racism,  African American,  print media,  Viacom,  songs,  candidates,  Colbert Bump

Episode #08091

The world's third youngest Chess Grand Master Magnus Carlsen discusses game strategy and stardom. (05:32)

Tags:  Magnus Carlsen,  interviews,  competitions,  toys & games,  Norway,  international affairs,  Jimmy,  lookin' good,  Bobby Fischer,  challenges,  awards,  fashion,  mental health,  modeling

Episode #08090

Barack Obama makes a cowardly statement about Mitt Romney's wealth, made all the more cowardly by the fact that he never said it. (04:33)

Tags:  Barack Obama,  Steve Doocy,  lying,  media,  campaigns,  Mitt Romney,  wealth,  Republicans,  Fox News,  slogans,  print media,  sexual advances,  Washington Post,  New York Post,  speeches,  education,  college,  Indecision 2012,  Fox & Friends,  friendly friends at Fox & Friends

Episode #08086

Award-winning American singer Bonnie Raitt talks about environmental activism and her popular track "Angel from Montgomery." (04:36)

Tags:  Bonnie Raitt,  interviews,  music,  songs,  awards,  men/women,  protests,  Occupy Wall Street,  environment,  aging,  Address the Mess,  sexual advances

Episode #08081

In the employment sector, things are getting better, but they're not getting more better any faster. (03:36)

Tags:  Fox News,  unemployment,  Stuart Varney,  Obama administration,  Barack Obama,  Jimmy,  statistics,  death,  mongering,  mental health,  American blankscape

Episode #08080

Unlike most things, the Peabody award for Colbert Super PAC segments isn't just about Stephen. (03:02)

Tags:  Peabody Awards,  Colbert Super PAC,  photos,  Trevor Potter,  Ham Rove,  food,  Supreme Court,  fundraising,  CNN,  Egypt,  Hosni Mubarak,  Colbert Nation,  the heroes,  vaginas,  penises,  poop & pee,  balls

Episode #08076

Actor Mark Ruffalo became an anti-fracking, clean water activist after seeing the technologies' detrimental impact on communities in Pennsylvania. (07:20)

Tags:  Mark Ruffalo,  interviews,  fracking,  pollution,  water,  energy,  accept your apology,  alternative energy,  North Dakota,  environment,  movies,  nailed,  oil,  Germany,  Pennsylvania,  Incredible Hulk,  housing,  America,  elitism,  advertising,  protests,  science

Episode #08072

Stephen takes Wall Street executive Greg Smith to task for breaking the sacred trust of "The Street." (03:14)

Tags:  Greg Smith,  Wall Street,  business,  Goldman Sachs,  print media,  New York Times,  protests,  scandals,  Lloyd Blankfein,  God,  religion,  The Muppet Show,  money,  sports,  Jewish

Episode #08072

Veteran political strategist Mark McKinnon's No Labels movement has a 12-step program to reform Congress. (06:53)

Tags:  Mark McKinnon,  interviews,  Congress,  Democrats,  Republicans,  Olympia Snowe,  government,  Independents,  rehab,  money,  military,  campaigns,  laws,  voting,  Civil War,  Kermit the Frog,  Newt Gingrich,  Rick Santorum,  liberal,  approval ratings

Episode #08062

"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" is the greatest film of 2012, but the liberal elitist snobs at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honor "The Artist" instead. (04:13)

Tags:  Movies That Are Destroying America,  Academy Awards,  Hollywood,  movies,  African American,  outsourcing,  liberal,  Transformers,  New York Times,  French,  Billy Crystal,  rage,  give it to me,  parody

Episode #08058

Mitt Romney attempts to connect to Michigan voters and brings out the biggest, tannest, most leathery gun of them all: Donald Trump. (06:53)

Tags:  Mitt Romney,  Donald Trump,  South Carolina Serious Classy Republican Debate,  Michigan,  primaries,  lookin' good,  impressions,  Rick Santorum,  polls,  bailouts,  Detroit,  wealth,  celebrities,  Animal Planet,  National Geographic,  Jimmy,  asses,  cars/trucks,  Stephen's friends,  dogs,  animals,  environment,  campaigns,  candidates,  Republicans,  Indecision 2012

Episode #08053

The Tennessee Tea Party demands that textbooks remove references to the Founding Fathers' slave ownership and violence against Native Americans. (04:27)

Tags:  The Word,  founding fathers,  Thomas Jefferson,  Benjamin Franklin,  George Washington,  James Madison,  Andrew Jackson,  Tea Party,  Tennessee,  America,  history,  education,  kids,  slavery,  ethnic,  African American,  Native American,  liberal,  smoking,  prostitution,  French,  culture,  lying,  sex,  patriotism

Episode #08051

John Harwood, Katrina vanden Heuvel and David Cassidy share their thoughts on Newt Gingrich's sex appeal, Mitt Romney's wealth and Connecticut's tacos. (06:27)

Tags:  John Harwood,  Katrina vanden Heuvel,  David Cassidy,  appearances,  Mitt Romney,  Newt Gingrich,  Florida,  primaries,  adultery,  marriage,  divorce,  sexual advances,  wealth,  men/women,  business,  Republicans,  friend of the show,  celebrities,  Jimmy,  controversies,  Connecticut,  football,  stereotypes,  racism,  Latino,  Hispanic,  money,  food

Episode #08047

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens expounds on his dissenting opinion in Bush v. Gore and Citizens United. (06:49)

Tags:  John Paul Stevens,  appearances,  Colbert Super PAC,  Supreme Court,  laws,  business,  Constitution,  civil rights,  let's move on,  trials/hearings,  Bush v. Gore,  great or greatest,  retirement,  books,  William Rehnquist,  fashion,  lookin' good,  costumes,  on location,  In the Field

Episode #08044

A shadowy outside group calling itself the Definitely Not Coordinating with Stephen Colbert Super PAC unveils the most shocking attack ad yet. (05:02)

Tags:  Colbert Super PAC,  Mitt Romney,  Jon Stewart,  Colbert 2012,  advertising,  South Carolina,  primaries,  business,  interns,  laws,  appearances,  costumes,  photos,  travel,  food,  prison,  murder,  Karl Rove,  Supreme Court,  candidates,  Republicans,  Indecision,  Indecision 2012

If corporations are people, then Mitt Romney is Mitt the Ripper. (01:00)

Tags:  exclusives,  Colbert Super PAC,  Mitt Romney,  voting,  business,  John Lithgow,  South Carolina,  murder,  death,  primaries,  violence,  parenting,  Supreme Court,  candidates,  Indecision,  Indecision 2012,  advertising

Episode #08039

AOL co-founder Steve Case believes that a generational shift away from ownership and toward community sharing is taking place. (05:14)

Tags:  Steve Case,  interviews,  Internet,  AOL,  technology,  business,  economy,  siblings,  cars/trucks,  America,  housing,  asses,  poop & pee,  socialism,  money

Episode #08038

Journalist John Heilemann examines Rick Santorum's rise in the Iowa caucus and the potential direction of his campaign. (06:33)

Tags:  John Heilemann,  interviews,  Rick Santorum,  Mitt Romney,  Ronald Reagan,  Newt Gingrich,  conservative,  voting,  religion,  Christian,  Indecision,  Indecision 2012,  candidates,  Republicans,  campaigns,  caucuses

Episode #08034

To honor the memory of Donald Trump mattering, Stephen re-announces Stephen Colbert's South Carolina Serious, Classy Republican Debate. (04:54)

Tags:  Donald Trump,  impressions,  debates,  South Carolina Serious Classy Republican Debate,  South Carolina,  friends,  print media,  Newt Gingrich,  Rick Santorum,  National Geographic,  asses,  breasts,  food,  zoos,  animals,  lookin' good,  Jimmy,  Michael Stipe,  appearances,  candidates,  Republicans,  Indecision,  Indecision 2012