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Warren After Reading Mueller Report: Time To Open Impeachment Proceedings

May 3, 2019

Elizabeth Warren joins Lawrence O'Donnell to talk about her call for impeaching President Trump and how her prolific policy proposals are being received in the 2020 Democratic primary.

For Pete at 100 | This Land Is Your Land

May 3, 2019

Studs Terkel does the introduction to the beloved Woody Guthrie song, sung by Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Fred Hellerman and Arlo Guthrie in this 1976 broadcast from PBS studio in Chicago. Full appreciation of the radical life of Pete Seeger here.

William Barr's Master Class on Hair Splitting

May 3, 2019

Stephen attempts to capture the substance, nature, and context of William Barr's incredibly hard-to-watch testimony

May 3, 2019

Friday Nite Videos | May 3, 2019

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William Barr's Master Class on Hair Splitting. For Pete at 100 | This Land Is Your Land. Elizabeth Warren: Time to Open Impeachment Proceedings. How Quantum Computers Break Encryption. Ady Barkan Testifies on Medicare for All.

Why All the Arguments Against Impeachment Are B.S.

May 3, 2019

It'll divide the country, energize Trump's base — and anyway, he'll never be convicted in the Senate! Mehdi Hasan rebuts the arguments against impeachment.

May 2, 2019

Why No Labor Party Here?

Meredith Schafer Against the Current

Canada and the United States are similar enough culturally, but in class relations for some 70 years the two stand markedly apart. The book under review helps to explain the multifaceted reasons why.

May 2, 2019

The 99 Per Cent is the Power That Can Change Society

Richard Burgon Morning Star

We should reject false division between ‘working class’ and ‘middle class’ and affirm unity across all lines of division.

May 2, 2019

Tidbits - May 2, 2019 - Reader Comments: Venezuela Eyewitness Reports; Impeachment debate; Anita Hill; Ilhan Omar; Higher Minimum Wage; Walt Whitman; Pete Seeger; Hubble Measurements; Racism and Women's Suffrage; and more....

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Reader Comments: Eyewitness Reports from Caracas, Venezuela; Impeachment debate; Anita Hill; Ilhan Omar; Higher Minimum Wage; Walt Whitman; Pete Seeger Tribute; Hubble Measurements; Racism and Women's Suffrage; lots of Announcements and more....

May 2, 2019

Stung by Trump's Trade Wars, Wisconsin's Milk Farmers Face Extinction

Alan Rappeport The New York Times

Trump's policies at work - Wisconsin dairy farmers are put out to pasture by Trump Administration trade, tariff and tax policies. This is the reality of "making America great again" for the Midwest.

May 2, 2019

New Group Launches to Harness Political Power of Women

Julie Pace AP

Dubbed Supermajority, the group, which describes itself as multiracial and intergenerational, has a goal of training and mobilizing 2 million women over the next year to become organizers and political leaders in their communities.