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People in Denmark Are Much Happier Than People in the United States. Here's Why. 6 min
People in Denmark Are Much Happier Than People in the United States. Here's Why.
6 min · Last week, in Denmark, Malthe and Lærke Knudson had a baby girl they named Emma. That same day, the Robinsons—Dale and Beth—had a little baby in the United States. They called her...
Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy 7 min
Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy
7 min · How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political and environmental commons.
Future Generations Need to Know Our Nuclear Waste Is Deadly. How Can We Tell Them? 7 min
Future Generations Need to Know Our Nuclear Waste Is Deadly. How Can We Tell Them?
7 min · Nuclear waste can be harmful for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. How can people today even imagine what society will be like over those types of time periods?...
More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters: the Revolutionary Life of Lucy Parsons 6 min
More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters: the Revolutionary Life of Lucy Parsons
6 min · What we can learn from one of the great organizers in American history.
How Cities Make Us Sick 18 min
How Cities Make Us Sick
18 min · Over the last century, cities have been designed to accommodate the automobile. So, how do we redesign them to benefit people?
Noam Chomsky: Democracy Is a Threat to Any Power System 84 min
Noam Chomsky: Democracy Is a Threat to Any Power System
84 min · To mark The Nation's 150th anniversary, John Nichols was joined in conversation by the eminent radical intellectual Noam Chomsky at the Tucson Festival of Books in Arizona on March 15...
The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy 13 min
The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy
13 min · Short film about NYPD's stop and frisk policy including a secret audio recording of a stop-and-frisk in action, and a secret audio recording of a performance evaluation meeting at the...
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land 10 min
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
10 min · About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced...
Israel’s New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land 11 min
Israel’s New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
11 min · About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced...
Torturing Animals At These Places Isn't Illegal, But It Is Illegal To Film It 5 min
Torturing Animals At These Places Isn't Illegal, But It Is Illegal To Film It
5 min · If you've ever seen footage taken inside industrial farms, you know it isn't pretty. In fact, it's so ugly that it's against the law in some states to even look. - Silveira...
1981 Interview on the Republican Southern Racial Strategy 2 min
1981 Interview on the Republican Southern Racial Strategy
2 min · In 1981, the legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater, after a decade as South Carolina's most effective Republican operative, was working in Ronald Reagan's White House when...
Watch Your Foodometer! 3 min
Watch Your Foodometer!
3 min · Interested in eating less oil? In this VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator Molly Schwartz keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field to fork.
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