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Organizations can hire fake advocates who create the illusion of real support for their message. It’s a shady practice called astroturfing that can warp the public perception of anything...even astroturfing.

Boots Riley, frontman of the politically-charged hip-hop group 'The Coup' and director of movie Sorry to Bother You, reflects on his music, his future, and his relentless revolt against capitalism during a tour of the streets of Oakland.

"I'm trying to undone what you've done
To the innocent minds of our daughter and son"

Palme d’Or–winning documentarian Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11) turns his attention to another significant date, examining the legacy of Trump’s ascension to the US presidency on November 9, 2016. In theaters everywhere September 21. 

Don Lemon and stars Gladys Knight and Smokey Robinson remember the late, great "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin.

Bernie Sanders thanks the Koch brothers for sponsoring a study that shows that Medicare for all would save the American people $2 trillion dollars over a ten year period. Probably not what they intended to do, but that is what a study of the Mercatus Center - significantly funded by the Kochs - shows.

From the debut album of Prophets of Rage (Tim Commerford, Tom Morello and Brad Wilk from Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, DJ Lord and Chuck D from Public Enemy, and B-Real of Cypress Hill).

President Trump's and lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s new argument is that collusion is not a crime. Ari Melber gives a special legal break down of why colluding with foreigners to impact a U.S. election is a crime, including the four key felonies that it involves.

A new movie by Spike Lee tells the true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department, who sets out to infiltrate and expose the KKK, along with body double colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver). Interview with Spike Lee.

OpenAI's robot Dactyl learns how to do new tasks from experience rather than by custom programming. Here is a demonstration of Dactyl manipulating a block into a desired orientation.

Mark Ruffalo, Common, parents and children at the border, and humanitarian workers discuss how kids are still being kept in cages, and parents are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get them back.

Rhiannon Giddens pours the emotional weight of American history into her music

Political insurgency comes to Hawaii

As comic books become more diverse, some fans aren’t happy about it.

From Playing For Change's new album, Listen to the Music

The 2018 ESPYS Arthur Ashe Award for Courage is presented to representatives for the 'sister survivors' who spoke out against sexual abuse by their former team doctor.

The March for Our Lives bus tour came to Reardon Convention Center in Kansas City, Kan., on Monday. Parkland shooting survivors joined with local high school students to address gun violence and urge young people to vote.

Robert Reich argues that to stop the rise of more Trumps in the future we must go after the system that prepared the way for his rise to power.

Decades ago, the FBI targeted Black activists who were fighting for equality — now, this sad chapter of history is repeating itself.

Acclaimed country music singer Jason Isbell tackles a world of racial inequality and injustice head-on, saying "I can't stay silent." (Review article.)

Written and performed by British punk rockers Green Day for the George Bush presidency, and appropriately revived for Donald Trump's visit to Great Britain.

Boots Riley mines his own experience as a telemarketer into compelling storytelling magic about a worklife that millions of Americans have experienced (review). In theaters now.

While we’re celebrating America, what’s more American than gun violence? Michelle Wolf mocks the NRA’s notion of a good guy with a gun.

What happens when individuals each seek to exploit a shared resource without rules that protect the common good? Another story of markets being irrational. 

Morgan Neville's new movie Won't You Be My Neighbor? documents the unlikely stardom of Fred Rogers and his long-running children's show. In theaters now.

In a “Beat” special report, Ari Melber examines Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos’s track record of rolling back years of policy in ways that affect millions of students, including ending programs that support diversity in schools

Acclaimed writer and activist Noam Chomsky delivered the keynote address to a meeting titled Two Minutes to Midnight: How Do We Move from Geopolitical Conflict to Nuclear Abolition? Co-organized by the International Peace Bureau and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office