Non-Profits Demand Museums Oust Koch For Funding Misinformation on Climate Science

Neela Banerjee Inside Climate News
Fifteen non-profits launched a petition on March 23 calling on the Smithsonian's American Museum of Natural History and the Natural History Museum of New York to remove David Koch from their boards of trustees because "he bankrolls groups that deny climate science." Serious questions are being raised about institutions that accept money from donors whose business and political dealings are in direct opposition to the institutions' missions.

Prosecutor Apologizes for Sending Innocent Man to Death Row

A.M. "Marty" Stroud III Shreveport Times
Attorney "Marty" Stroud was the prosecutor in the 1984 murder trial of Glenn Ford, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Isadore Rozeman. Ford was released from prison in 2014, after the state admitted new evidence proving Ford was not the killer. Stroud denounces the state’s attempt to deny compensation for Ford’s wrongful conviction, speaks of his role in creating the “horrors” Ford suffered, and denounces the death penalty as an "abomination."

Friday Nite Videos -- March 27, 2015

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Tom Lehrer -- We'll All Go Together When We Go. Detroit Man Beaten by Police Speaks Out. Boom Bust Boom Trailer. New York Subway's Danny Small. SEC's Andrew Bowden at Stanford – A Regulator for Sale?

Boom Bust Boom Trailer

Monty Python star Terry Jones co-wrote and co-directed this completely serious economics documentary, whose experts include Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman, Robert J. Shiller and Paul Krugman.

New York Subway's Danny Small

Mitchell Hughes, aka Danny Small, originally from South Carolina, singing in the NYC subway station at 14th Street and 6th Avenue -- one cell in the musical lifeblood of a city.

SEC's Andrew Bowden at Stanford – A Regulator for Sale?

Andrew Bowden, the SEC's Director of the agency's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, speaks a bit too candidly at a March 5, 2015 conference at Sanford Law School conference, Emerging Regulatory Issues in Private Equity, Venture Capital, & Capital Formation in Silicon Valley.

The 'iEverything' and the Redistributional Imperative

Robert Reich Robert Reich
When more and more can be done by fewer and fewer people, the profits go to an ever-smaller circle of executives and owner-investors. It may be that a redistribution of income and wealth from the rich to the rest of us becomes the only means of making the future economy work.