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As Many as 5 Socialists Could Join Chicago City Council

Ryan Smith Chicago Sun-Times
“For the third-biggest city in the country to have a DSA caucus is amazing, and having members around Carlos will only amplify the causes that working-class Chicago — not the rich — wants,” local DSA co-chair Lucie Macías.

A New Political Party in Poland Wants to 'Re-Christianize' Europe

Lidia Kurasinska Open Democracy
Father Tadeusz Rydzyk (left)
Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, the ultra-rightist Catholic priest and entrepreneur, is seen as the driving force behind the new Polish party intent on rebuilding “Christian thought in Europe” and winning seats in the European parliament elections in May.

Friday Nite Videos | March 1, 2019

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Student Loans | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. 39TH Razzie Awards Announcement! Racism in the Michael Cohen Hearing? A New Algorithm Decodes Rat Squeaks. Native Son | Movie.

Student Loans | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj

With Americans' student debt now over $1.5 trillion, private financial companies have benefited from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' hands-off regulation that has made it easy for students to become trapped in debt

Racism in the Michael Cohen Hearing?

Rep. Rashida Tlaib said what Mark Meadows did at the Michael Cohen hearing was racist. Then, Rep. Tlaib apologized to Meadows. Lawrence explains the House rules do not allow members of the House to insult members of the House and insists that that doesn't mean Mark Meadows is not a racist.

A New Algorithm Decodes Rat Squeaks

Rats are social and chatty critters, but most of their chatter is above the frequency that human ears can hear. If researchers could listen to what rats are “saying,” it could change countless experiments. We visit some scientists who built software to make sense of their squeaks.

Native Son | Movie

The story of a young African-American man who comes of age in the South Side of Chicago, based on the seminal Richard Wright novel with the same title. Premieres April 6 on HBO.

Michael Cohen Implicated Trump in at Least 11 Different Felonies

Greg Walters Vice News
From potential involvement in a grand Russia conspiracy to pilfering money from his own charitable foundation, here’s an incomplete list of the criminal activity Trump’s former personal attorney dropped at the feet of the president