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Robert Reich examines Trump's dark vision for America, and how to create a progressive message for the future.
17 min
Robert Reich looks at antitrust laws and corporate giants.
12 min
Robert Reich explains how government policies protect the wealthy and corporations, but leave ordinary Americans at risk.
5 min
DO YOU KNOW what really annoys me about the media’s coverage of U.S. politics, and especially the Democratic Party?
Mehdi Hasan
Abby Martin interviews former Technical Director of the National Security Agency, Bill Binney, who blew the whistle on warrantless spying years before Edward Snowden released the evidence. They discuss the US empire's mass surveillance program and dangers of the Intelligence...
28 min
“In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them...
Bruce E. Levine
Venezuela has become a popular argument against socialism amongst conservatives because of the deep economic crisis it is currently traversing. Defenders of the Bolivarian project, though, say that US sanctions and economic war are to blame for the crisis. Greg Wilpert...
12 min
How Much Money Israel Lobby Gave Politicians Attacking Ilhan Omar I got kind of obsessive and looked up exactly how much $ each politician attacking Omar's comments about the Israel lobby has received from pro-Israel sources. Thanks for watching! Support my work...
6 min
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9 min
Plastic polluted neighborhoods in Manila are taking things into their own hands by creating systemic zero waste programs that collect all recyclables, compost all organics, and push for corporate accountability.
4 min
Lyndon Johnson famously proclaimed his requirements for an appointee: “I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.” Johnson and his ass-kissers were authoritarians.
Bruce E. Levine
Weeks ago, when the first accusations of anti-semitism were being leveled against Representative Ilhan Omar, I was deeply agitated.
Sarah Gertler
Last year at Unrig Summit, Jennifer Lawrence sat down with Trevor Potter, a Republican and the forrmer commissioner of the U.S. Federal Election Commission to learn how to legally bribe politicians.
13 min
Find out how you can get involved at http://represent.us Our government is broken, and we have to fix it. RepresentUs board member Jennifer Lawrence and Director of RepresentUs Josh Silver, walks through three lines that show what's wrong with legal corruption in our...
13 min
18 concrete ways to make the urgently needed climate mobilization a reality
Jeremy Brecher
When politics becomes about tallying sins, it ceases to accomplish meaningful change…
Angela Nagle
The Handmaid’s Tale is less a dystopian nightmare about Trump’s America than a comforting fiction we tell ourselves.
Angela Nagle
Robert Reich explains how expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit would boost wages for millions of working Americans.
5 min
Until recently, historians have failed to uncover the truth behind the war of 1862 in Minnesota. In this movie, filmmaker Sheldon Wolfchild portrays his grandfather, Medicine Bottle. He tells a Dakota oral history of the 1862 war, the hangings of the Dakota 38 Plus 2, and the...
8 min
For many of us who actually live along the U.S.-Mexico border, the “Mesquite Manifesto” addresses economic and climate problems by building up industry around the native tree.
Gary Paul Nabhan
The growth of white supremacy and fascism has been noticeable in a number of countries lately, prompting the question: What can we learn from each other? Each country might find “best practices” elsewhere that could be applied at home, in addition to learning from its own...
George Lakey
It’s very clear that conservatives have one plan for dealing with the popularity of the Green New Deal: scaring the hell out of people.
Bill McKibben
I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculous—that consuming a particularly unimaginative information product on a daily basis somehow makes you thoughtful and informed in a way that...
David Cain
The phrase 'Intellectual Dark Web' was first coined by mathematician Eric Weinstein in early 2018, it quickly spread. Was this just a chance remark, or was there a plan? This film explains how the creation of the Intellectual Dark Web was part of a long term strategy, and...
45 min
Donald Trump insists that the border wall he wants built will be nothing less than beautiful. He has assured us that the latest version, a series of steel slats topped by triangular spikes, will fulfill the non plus ultra of architectural design: it will be “totally effective...
Sandra Lubarsky
"Either we choose to go on as a civilization or we don't. That is as black or white as it gets. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival."
Greta Thunberg
David Pakman's long-form investigation into political correctness, including a history of the term, and whether it is too liberally or conservatively applied in modern culture.
15 min
The issue before us is death. Not only our individual death, which is more imminent for some of us this morning than others, but our collective death.
Chris Hedges
He stands now, as he did then, as a living force for justice, in uncompromising opposition to poverty, racism and war
Robert C. Koehler
All suffering begins and ends in our brains.
"Business leaders and elite intellectuals recognized that the public had won enough rights so that they can't be controlled by force, so it would be necessary to turn to control of attitudes and opinions...
5 min
Just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, activists from Greenpeace climbed up a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word: Resist.
Christopher Beem
What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down?
RoseAnn DeMoro
Audience Question: Can you give examples of white identity politics?
5 min
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted.
2 min
This article was first published in “Bye-Bye 45: A Guide to Bringing Him Down.” Read more about the action guide here.
Onnesha Roychoudhuri
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82 min
Tears in the Bayou is a documentary that takes you through the madness in the inner city of Houston, Texas.
107 min
And we wouldn’t even have to tax the rich to pay for it.
Ellen Brown
Historian Rutger Bregman found a way to end poverty. Obviously we had to ask him how!
6 min
Robert Reich explains why we must limit the influence of donors and lobbyists on Washington.
4 min
Robert Reich explains why the growing federal debt enriches Wall St. bankers and wealthy Americans.
3 min
In Part II of our series Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin addresses the surprise order from Trump that he was "ending the war" in Syria.
14 min
In the first installment of this multi-part series, Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin debunks the notion that Trump is an anti-interventionist president, outlining his first two years of aggressive foreign policy that has expanded US wars and occupations.
17 min
More than 50 years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most extensive pieces of civil rights legislation, people of color across the United States still are engaged in a battle to protect their right to vote. Voting Matters follows one dynamic woman working...
2 min
The latest UN climate talks, known as COP24, have just concluded. The supposed story this time was one of a grinding victory by the EU and developing nations over recalcitrant petro-states – Russia, the US, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. These four, condemned as “climate villains&
Nicholas Beuret
From Trump in the U.S. to Bolsonaro in Brazil, ordinary people in large democracies are discontented and shifting right, what can progressives do about it? Cornel West in conversation with Sharmini Peries.
9 min
I am constantly amused by people who post threats on Twitter and Facebook as they warn anyone within all-caps distance that they will block or defriend anyone who dares commit the unforgivable sin of disagreeing with them. There was a time where debates advanced...
Teodrose Fikre
A network of public banks could underwrite the new New Deal in the same way President Franklin Roosevelt financed the original.
Ellen Brown
Tomas Björkman is the author of three books: The Market Myth (2016), Världen vi skapar (eng. The World we Create) (2017) and, together with Lene Andersen, The Nordic Secret (2017).
19 min
David Pakman's long-form analysis of Jordan Peterson, and more specifically the movement that has been created around him, including its ideology, shortcomings, and more.
22 min
Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, and author of his most recent book with Greg Lukianoff "The Coddling of the American Mind," joins David Pakman to discuss politics, tribalism, and much more.
29 min
You may have heard by now that Amazon’s new headquarters will soon call the New York and Washington, D.C., metropolitan areas home. This decision has engendered much criticism. But the Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson doesn’t think the vitriol is enough.
“We should all...
4 min
The US has a surprisingly large amount of public ownership. But in order for it to truly serve the social good, it must be expanded — and democratized.
Thomas M. Hanna
Activism is normal; what’s strange is that we don’t see it that way.
Laurence Cox
Former US President Barack Obama admitted that the neoliberal capitalist policies he and his predecessors supported fostered the rise of the far-right and grossly exacerbated inequality.
8 min
The smartest thing the Swedish and Norwegian left did was to avoid getting baited by their Nazi antagonists into street-fighting and mounting chaos. Instead, they modeled self-discipline and used the disruptive, nonviolent power of noncooperation to force a power shift.
George Lakey
Incoming members of the US Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, have both come out in favor of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement — the first House members to ever do so. Critics, however, suggest that BDS is anti-Semitic and undermines a two-state...
9 min
Robert Reich explains why using the private sector for government services can have negative consequences.
5 min
1. The State of the Spirit, 2018
Rabbi Michael Lerner