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Getting To Know the Cubans: Khrushchev Meets the Castro Brothers

National Security Archive National Security Archive
For the first time in any language the National Security Archive is publishing a translation of the first meeting between Khrushchev and Raul Castro on July 18, 1960, providing new insight into what each side wanted, expected and promised.

Crime Reporting | John Oliver

John Oliver discusses the outlets that cover crime, the incentives that drive them, the flawed sources they rely upon, and an alternative name for Miss Piggy.

The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales | Movie

A feature-length, personal essay documentary by filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail Disney that grapples with America’s profound inequality crisis, beginning with Abigail's encounters Disney workers struggling to put food on the table.

The Problem of Gender in Arkansas | Jon Stewart

Jon asks the Attorney General of Arkansas to explain why the state took health care decisions about gender-affirming care out of parents’ hands, overriding the guidelines of every major medical organization.

This Family Made Billions While Killing Half A Million

The Sacklers Purdue Pharmaceuticals are responsible for the opiate painkiller Oxycontin–which is nearly entirely responsible for the opioid addiction epidemic. This is how they got away with it by exploiting byzantine corporate and financial law.

Sketches of Iran

Esther Kamkar
The arrest and death of a young Iranian woman by the morality police prompts the poet Esther Kamkar to consider her exile from home.