I Am a Refugee

Majid Naficy Iroon.com
The Persian poet Majid Naficy fled Iran in 1983 to live in exile in various places, currently in Los Angeles. His poetry here addresses the sense of loss, the urge to create roots.

What the First Ancient African Genome Reveals

Ewen Callaway Nature
For the first time, a complete DNA sequence from Africa dating back thousands of years has been recovered. The DNA of this Ethiopian man sheds new light on the movement out of Africa, and also movement of Eurasians back into Africa.

What Obama Can Do About Dark Money in Elections Right Now

Michael Waldman Brennan Center for Justice
To a degree unseen since the Gilded Age over a century ago, money will pour into the 2016 elections from a handful of donors giving once unimaginable sums. Many want something from government. And many of these donors will operate undisturbed -- their identities secret from the public, if not from the grateful politicians. It's called "dark money."

Boehner’s Nightmare

Terrance Heath Campaign for America's Future
Boehner announced his resignation from Congress. He’d give himself another month, postpone a government shutdown until he was long gone and couldn’t be blamed for it. He had a ready successor lined-up in the form of Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Then it all fell apart.

John Oliver: Mental Health

John Oliver explains how our national system of treating mental health works, or more often than not, how it doesn’t.

Hospital Bombing: 'A War Crime'

Chris Hayes talks to Jason Cone, executive director of Doctors Without Borders, about the need for an independent investigation of the hospital air strike in Afghanistan that killed 22 people.

Phil Ochs: I Ain't A-marchin' Any More

50 Years Ago: In 1965, as the Vietnam war escalated, singer-songwriter Phil Ochs wrote this song of resistance to an endless, senseless trail of blood.

Not So Pro-Life After All

Trevor proposes that anti-abortion advocates like Carly Fiorina and Jeb Bush channel their pro-life rhetoric into another vital issue: gun control.