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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.

Why Doesn't Time Flow Backwards?

Why entropy gives rise to the arrow of time, how the initial state of the universe is responsible for the fact that we experience time now, and the ultimate heat death of the universe.

Elizabeth Warren Rips Wells Fargo's CEO A New One

Elizabeth Warren's questioning of Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf at the Senate Banking Committee exposes his refusal to take responsibility for the bank's years-long scam of bank customers.

Sartre and the Birth of Radical Existentialism

Ray Monk The New Statesman
A granular review of three recent books on the the political and intellectual legacy of French Marxian existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. As the reviewer notes, if you want to know why 50,000 people showed up to pay their respects at the writer/activist's 1980 funeral, these new books may provide the answer.

Building Alliances to End Gender-Based Violence at Work

Tula Connell Solidarity Center AFL-CIO
There is a specific set of behaviors that constitute gender-based violence at work that includes sexual violence, verbal abuse, threats of violence and bullying. A meeting in Brazil sponsored by the International Trade Union Confederation and the Solidarity Center discussed a campaign to shape a worker-driven International Labor Organization standard ending gender-based violence at work, based about successful initiatives by local worker organizations.