Trailer for George Clooney's Catch-22

George Clooney brings Joseph Heller's classic but unfortunately relevant novel about the inherent insanity of war to the small screen. A vivid, frenetic, violent and deeply impactful short series streaming on Hulu, starting May 17.

Nothing Happened

How many excuses for not holding Donald Trump accountable for his many, very public and thoroughly documented high crimes and misdemeanors?

Green New Deal

 
With the Green New Deal sparking a national conversation about all the ways to combat climate change, John Oliver looks at a few potential solutions. Guest Bill Nye the Science Guy literally torches complacency about global warming.

How to Move Toward Impeachment, Now

Jeffrey C. Isaac Public Seminar
There comes a time when it is necessary to accept a bully’s challenge; to have confidence in your ability to summon your strength to win; and then to do it. It's time.

Friday Nite Videos | May 17, 2019

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Green New Deal | John Oliver. Nothing Happened. Trailer for George Clooney's Catch-22. New Unredacted Information Re: Obstruction. Amber Ruffin Explains Alabama’s Abortion Ban.

Los Angeles: City of Segregation

Adam Tomes Counterfire
The book under review documents a century of struggle against the partitioning of groups on the basis of race through property markets, constructions of community, and the scourge of neoliberalism, revealing racialist ideology and means to end it.

Tidbits - May 16, 2019 - Reader Comments: Constitutional Crisis; School Shootings; War with Iran; Remembering Larry Hanley and Dan Clawson; Bernie Sanders; Vieques, Puerto Rico; Chelsea Manning; Eric Hobsbawm; Uber; lots more...

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Reader Comments: Constitutional Crisis; School Shootings - Again; War with Iran; Remembering Larry Hanley and Dan Clawson; Bernie Sanders; Vieques, Puerto Rico; Chelsea Manning - Again; Eric Hobsbawm; Uber; Social Movement Photography; Huge Book Sale

Max Fine Spent His Life Trying to Create a Better Health-Care System

Carl Ginsburg The Nation
If commitment to the public good is the measure of a person, then Max Fine’s life was one well-lived. Max William Fine, the last surviving member of JFK’s Medicare Task Force, spent the better part of a century in pursuit of health care for all.