Donald Trump Can NEVER Be President

Sen Elizabeth Warren unleashes on Donald Trump rooting for the 2008 housing market crash, his plans to dismantle Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform, and his decision not to release his taxes.

Weiner | Documentary Film

A painfully revealing narrative of the failed political comeback attempt of narcissist politician Anthony Weiner (aka "Carlos Danger"). In theaters and VOD. 

How About 100 Bernie Sanders?

Anoa Changa The Guardian
The passion around his presidential campaign can be channeled into transforming Congress. We’ll pool resources across the US to beat big money.

Why Paul Krugman Is Wrong About the 1990s

Rana Foroohar Time magazine
What is the true economic narrative about the 1990s? Was it a time of shared American prosperity brought on by smart policy? Or was it a time when the style of laissez-faire attitudes forged in the 1980s was co-opted by Democrats and began to create the growing inequality and periodic crises we’ve since become used to?

Extinct Humans' DNA Is Helping Us Today

Emily Singer Quanta Magazine
Neanderthals and Denisovans may have supplied modern humans with genetic variants that let them thrive in new environments.

Welfare Queen

Majid Naficy portside.org
The exiled Persian poet Majid Naficy draws on Christian parable (the Book of Matthew), suggesting that some of the irate voices on our streets are not enemies but prophets.

The Brazilian Coup's Image Problem

Gianpaolo Baiocchi Boston Review
Romero Jucá, recently appointed planning minister, was recorded saying: `We have to stop this shit. We have to change the government to be able to stop this bleeding - the corruption investigation. The motives and nature of the plot to remove Rousseff are apparent in the transcript of the phone conversation between Jucá - a ally of new president Michel Temer - and Sérgio Machado, former senator who until recently was president of the state oil company, Transpetro.