Recalculating the Climate Math

Bill McKibben The New Republic
The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought. The future of humanity depends on math. And the numbers in a new study released Thursday are the most ominous yet.

Bernie Sanders: The `Nation' Interview

Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols The Nation
In an exclusive post-primary sit-down, Senator Sanders speaks on Our Revolution, Donald Trump, and what he really thinks about Hillary Clinton. "I've got to do everything that I can to make sure that Trump does not become president."

Friday Nite Videos -- September 30, 2016

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Elizabeth Warren Rips Wells Fargo's CEO A New One. Michael Franti | Good to Be Alive Today. Why Doesn't Time Flow Backwards? 13th | Documentary.

Holy Night

Dan Albergotti Crab Orchard Review
It's not easy to discover that a loved one holds views (prejudices) inimical to your own. The Carolina-based poet Dan Albergotti offers an exquisitely balanced portrait of what happens at such moments of discovery.

Protesters March to Call for Close of Rikers Island

Bill Parry Times Ledger
Eighty percent of Riker's current population of 7,600 are imprisoned on the island because they are too poor to afford bail and 40 percent should be in a mental health facility instead.

Trump at Night (Dangerous Tweets)

Jeremy Diamond CNN
Late at night, with his campaign staff far from his side, Trump was free to follow his gut. And his gut told him to punch back at a former Miss Universe whom he allegedly once called "Miss Piggy" by calling her disgusting for starring in a sex tape.

Unpacking Stop-and-Frisk

Trevor breaks down how New York City's controversial stop-and-frisk program targeted young men of color and exacerbated racial tensions.

13th | Documentary

Ava DuVernay’s galvanizing documentary of the13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery. A potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men.