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As presidential candidates continue to discuss Medicare for All, John Oliver explores how much it might cost, what it will change, and who it will help

Randy Rainbow interviews Attorney General Barr about giving favored treatment to convicted Trump buddy Roger Stone and follows with a darker than usual parody

Basketball legend, best-selling author and history buff Kareem Abdul-Jabbar teamed up with the History Channel to create Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution, a one-hour documentary that shares the African-American experience during the Revolutionary War

New Trump pardons include Rudy Giuliani’s convicted NYPD commissioner and partner Bernard Kerik, former “Apprentice” contestant Rod Blagojevich, and Michael Milken, a billionaire convicted of 98 counts of racketeering and fraud

Killer Mike reaches back to James Baldwin to ask, "How long must we wait?" And he answers: The Time Is Now!

A searing musical rejoinder to the "thoughts and prayers" reaction to gun violence, from the Drive-By Truckers new album, "The Unraveling" 

Michael Bloomberg the candidate is confronted with Mike Bloomberg, the stop-and-frisk mayor

Three fields of research are vital to keeping this outbreak under control: epidemiology, virology and biomedical science. Research in these areas will be key, alongside collaboration and the open sharing of data and results.

Hasan and Bernie talk presidential campaign, foreign policy in the Middle East, student loan forgiveness, and how Bernie plans on working with Republicans if he becomes president

Reggae great Bob Marley would have been 75 on Feb 6. In Redemption Song, Marley calls his listeners to action: "Won't you help to sing / These songs of freedom?"

"Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one’s oath of office that I can imagine."

Real change is all around us. Every conversation, protestor, canvasser, donation fuels this movement.

Before Central Park was built, a historically black community was destroyed.

In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party formed alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including Latino group the Young Lords and the southern whites of the Young Patriots. Check local listings on PBS.

What can we learn from a helicopter crash? We could know more than we do and we could use that knowledge to save lives.

Is a confession sufficient to procure a conviction? 

‘He’s a thug, he’s a crook, he’s our president. Crime after crime.’ — This scathing song parody by Jen Houston lists Trump’s many transgressions.

One notorious Trump backer was missing from the President's team of House GOP defenders, and now we finally know why

This is a subject that calls for childlike simplicity

Trump celebrated three years in office by paying tribute to himself and somehow brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. into it

According to former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, President Trump "knew exactly what was going on"

Song first released on Sam Cooke's 1964 album Ain't That Good News, inspired by Cooke and his entourage being turned away from a whites-only motel in Louisiana. (Wikipedia)

Fires are normal in Australia. This year was off the charts.

A true story of official injustice and the long battle for vindication (in theaters now), based on a book by Bryan Stevenson

The seven most common anti-vaccination arguments and how to answer them