Idea for Richard Engel: America: How Free Are We?

I just viewed On Assignment with Richard Engel: Made in China. It was an interesting show that spawns a look at similar topics on Capitalism in America. Here are possible topics to explore:

1. Not free to innovate
 a. Big Government Science
 b. Academic research - peer review
 c. Control of innovation: patents and big business
 d. Advertising and forbidden news

2. Shame in (on) America
 a. Race: The slave power
 b. Jim Crow in the North and South
 c.  Resistence to change
 d. Decency Codes
 e. 1959, when the world changed and all that jazz, a sense of humor
 f. Cultural reaction: The Elites, a not-semitism
 g.. The Warren Court, Hernandez to Perry
 h. Abortion politics, Roe & Reagan  to Alabama and Indiana v. Planned Parenthood

3. The Security State
 a. Red Scares: Wilson to McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover
 b. No Such Agency and Security Clearances
 c. Capitalist spying: Credit bureaus and MetaData, medical privacy
 d. Criminal records, the war on drugs, immigration, ICE and voter suppression (back to race).

 Easily a 2 Hour show