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“Casablanca” depicted the battle between American isolationism and compassion for migrants with no home. MSNBC’s Ari Melber explores how the classic film offers lessons for the current era.

If the personal is political, Tracy Chapman conveys a profound political message. In any case, she conveys profound human feelings.

 

The scariest part of Trump's first year as president isn't how abnormal he is, it's how normal he makes everything else look by comparison.

Sleep is universal in the animal kingdom, but each species slumbers in a different — and often mysterious — way. Some animals snooze with half their brain, while others only sleep for two hours a day.

The unlikely partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of US involvement in Vietnam that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents.