With Americans' student debt now over $1.5 trillion, private financial companies have benefited from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' hands-off regulation that has made it easy for students to become trapped in debt
The Results Are In. The Mystery Is Solved. The Perpetrators Will Be Awarded!
Rep. Rashida Tlaib said what Mark Meadows did at the Michael Cohen hearing was racist. Then, Rep. Tlaib apologized to Meadows. Lawrence explains the House rules do not allow members of the House to insult members of the House and insists that that doesn't mean Mark Meadows is not a racist.
Rats are social and chatty critters, but most of their chatter is above the frequency that human ears can hear. If researchers could listen to what rats are “saying,” it could change countless experiments. We visit some scientists who built software to make sense of their squeaks.
The story of a young African-American man who comes of age in the South Side of Chicago, based on the seminal Richard Wright novel with the same title. Premieres April 6 on HBO.
Fox News refused to air this interview with Dutch historian Rutger Bregman after Fox News host Tucker Carlson lost his temper, calling his guest a 'tiny brain...moron' during the interview.
Official music video for “The Flower" off the forthcoming Stay Human Vol. II record, and unofficial anthem of the movement against gun violence. Tour information.
Knock Down the House follows four women political candidates – a young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri – during the 2018 mid-term elections. The film was voted the Festival Favorite Award from among 121 films at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
The UK could officially leave the European Union next month, which would be a huge change with hugely damaging consequences.
Angela Davis reflects on Palestinian rights and the indivisibility of freedom, the Birmingham civil rights movement and the on-off-and-then-on-again award to her.
Four witnesses involved in Bob Mueller’s Russia probe – Jerome Corsi, Sam Nunberg, Michael Caputo and Carter Page – are each linked to President Trump, each directly involved in the Russia probe and have each given testimony to federal investigators
Rap guide to climate chaos
One man was plotting a Donald Trump presidential run for years: Roger Stone. Diving deep into the mind of the master manipulator, Get Me Roger Stone provides a raw perspective on American politics from Joe McCarthy to Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.
Thank you, Mr. President, for shutting down the government and holding 800,000 federal employees hostage. All for nothing!
How hard is Sudoku? Searching for the answer leads us to questions about the nature of space and time.
Working hard for Russia or hardly working for America?
Randy Rainbow's exclusive interview with Vice President Mike Pence inspires a zany, upbeat music homage to the greatness of a wall
Trump fires back at Nancy P after she proposes postponing the State of the Union address. Cardi B sounds off about the government shutdown. Michael Kosta unpacks the use of crowdfunding to help unpaid federal workers.
"Daydreaming" performed by poet Khamal Iwuanyanwu of Get Lit from Big Bowl of Ideas on Vimeo at the 2019 MLK Tribute Breakfast sponsored by the LA County Federation of Labor.
In this award-winning gem, a veteran shoplifter and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold and take her in, testing their family bonds. Full review.
In an electrifying talk, Stacey Abrams shares the lessons she learned from her campaign for governor of Georgia, some advice on how to change the world -- and a few hints at her next steps. "Be aggressive about your ambition," Abrams says.
Robert Reich explains why the growing federal debt enriches Wall St. bankers and wealthy Americans.
The President confirmed on Thursday that he will likely potentially certainly improbably possibly doubtfully absolutely declare a national emergency. For sure, maybe.
How do extraordinarily complex emergent phenomena — like ants assembling themselves into living bridges, or tiny water and air molecules forming into swirling hurricanes — spontaneously arise from systems of much simpler elements?
Survivors Asante McGee, Kitti Jones, Lizzette Martinez, Lisa Van Allen, backup singer Jovante Cunningham, performing artist Sparkle, and ex-wife and survivor of R. Kelly, Andrea Kelly, address R. Kelly directly in this bonus clip from Episode 6 of Surviving R. Kelly, "Black Girls Matter." #SurvivingRKelly
Bob Dylan's memorable 1988 Live Oakland performance of With God on Our Side made into a historical / lyric video.
Student loans are leaving millions of Americans with really bad hangovers.
AlphaZero taught itself from scratch chess, shogi and Go, beating a world-champion program in each case and discovering new and creative playing strategies that hint at the potential to tackle other complex problems.
A classic Paddy Chayevsky film starring Faye Dunaway and William Holden about a the role of the media in the corrupt system by which the very rich screw the middle class and poor. Now in a theater version with Bryan Cranston.
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