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President-Elect Trump: Last Week Tonight

November 18, 2016

How did we get to this point? And what do we do now?

RIKERS, Face to Face

November 18, 2016

A vivid arc of life on Rikers as told by the people who experienced it — from the trauma of entry, the conflicts with other inmates and corrections officers, the stabbings and beatings, and the torture of solitary confinement to the psychological challenges of returning to the outside world

Bernie Sanders: It's Our Revolution

November 18, 2016

Bernie affirms his optimism, and urges citizens to become more deeply involved in the political process.

Bruce Springsteen: This Land Is Your Land

November 18, 2016

Springsteen: 'I don't know if a lot of people feel if this song is true any more, and I'm not sure that it is, but I know that it ought to be.'

November 18, 2016

The Gathering Storm of Protest Against Trump

Evan Osnos The New Yorker

Protesters plan to descend on Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump’s Inauguration, and may number in the hundreds of thousands.

November 18, 2016

America’s Spiral Into Permanent War Seems More Foolish Than Ever

Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy in Focus

Donald Trump is inheriting the scariest tools of aggression imaginable. A new book explores their dark legacy.

November 18, 2016

Resisting Trump: Sessions’ Attorney General Nomination

Lauren Victoria Burke The Root

Will Democratic Sen. Cory Booker and Sen.-elect Kamala Harris lead a charge against the confirmation of a nominee with a racist past?

November 18, 2016

Robert Reich: Why We Need a New Democratic Party

Robert Reich Robert Reich

We need a New Democratic Party capable of organizing and mobilizing Americans in opposition to Donald Trump’s Republican party, which is about to take over all three branches of the U.S. government.

November 18, 2016

Friday Nite Videos -- November 18, 2016

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Bruce Springsteen: This Land Is Your Land. Bernie Sanders: It's Our Revolution. RIKERS, Face to Face. President-Elect Trump: Last Week Tonight. T.I. | Warzone.

November 17, 2016

Necessary Trouble: A New Protest Movement Emerges

Ken Nash Public Employee Press

With the far right now soon to command government, ongoing movements are also growing to challenge corporate domination, white supremacy, environmental degradation, union busting and organize workers in low-paid industries. Written before the November election, Sarah Jaffe's book chronicles these and other struggles, letting the activists--many new to politics-speak, and suggesting the fight for social and economic justice is ongoing, no matter which party reigns.