Friday Nite Videos | July 18, 2025

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Jeffrey Epstein Is a Policy Issue

David Dayen The American Prospect
There’s an incorrect belief that the Epstein case is somehow separate from the real concerns facing America, a conspiracist concoction. But it’s actually about the two-tiered system of justice and accountability in America.

Trump Can Hurt PBS and NPR, but He Can’t Kill Them

Josef Adalian New York Magazine
Killing funding to CPB is expected to have devastating effects for many public radio and TV stations. CPB grants keep smaller stations — including many in Trump-loving rural America — afloat.

80 Years After Trinity

Eric Ross TomDispatch
In 1945, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico worked feverishly to complete the first atomic bomb. Meanwhile, their colleagues at the University of Chicago mounted a final, ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent its use.