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September 14, 2018

Today’s College Students Are Paying More for Less

Lawrence Wittner History News Network

The huge spike in the cost of a college education has had a devastating effect upon educational opportunity. American student loan debt now totals $1.5 trillion.

September 14, 2018

Why Manafort and Cohen Thought They’d Get Away With It

Jesse Eisinger ProPublica

It takes a special counsel to actually catch white-collar criminals.

September 14, 2018

Bernie Sanders: A New Authoritarian Axis Demands an International Progressive Front

Bernie Sanders The Guardian

To combat the rise of an international authoritarian axis, we need an international progressive movement that mobilizes behind a vision of shared prosperity, security and dignity, and that addresses the global inequality in wealth and political power

Senator Elizabeth Warren at Netroots Nation 2018

September 14, 2018

Warren tells her own story to show how radically government has abandoned its responsibility to help the poor and working class. A speech about fighting the politics of division in the age of Trump.

DNA Shows Cave Girl Was Half Neanderthal

September 14, 2018

An extraordinary piece of genetic sleuthing shows that this girl's mother was Neanderthal, her father Denisovan.

Wajahat Ali on Being Muslim in America

September 14, 2018

Actor and writer Wajahat Ali shares some of the ridiculous things people ask him as a Muslim in post-9/11 America.

Amber Says What: Colin Kaepernick, Aretha Franklin, Serena Williams

September 14, 2018

Late Night writer Amber Ruffin hilariously recaps what's happening in pop culture news

Beto O'Rourke: We Don't Need a Wall

September 14, 2018

The man running against Ted Cruz to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate says we should be focused on smart security solutions and citizenship for DREAMers

September 14, 2018

Friday Nite Videos | September 14, 2018

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Beto O'Rourke: We Don't Need a Wall. Amber Says What: Colin Kaepernick, Aretha Franklin, Serena Williams. Wajahat Ali on Being Muslim in America. DNA Shows Cave Girl Was Half Neanderthal. Senator Elizabeth Warren at Netroots Nation 2018.

September 13, 2018

Bob Woodward’s Dragnet Descends on Donald Trump

Lloyd Green The Guardian

Woodward, one of the two Washington Post city reporters who broke the Watergate story that led to bringing down a president has written another sober, must-read dissection of corruption and rot at the White House.