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Target Ain't People -- so why should it be allowed to play around with our democracy?

America's foremost experts on women's health -- conservative men in their 60s -- slam the FDA's decision to sell Plan B without a prescription. 

From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25, 1987. Awesome solos by George Bohannon and Ry using slide on mandoguitar!

A group of Georgia high school students are making history by challenging the segregation of their high school prom. Thanks to their efforts and the support of groups like the NAACP, Wilcox County High is holding its first-ever integrated prom nearly 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education desegregated the nation’s school system.

Rachel Maddow discusses how there is money to be made in pandering to the conspiracy-minded fringe in America -- for example, in a conspiracy dating service.

Harvest of Empire is "The Untold Story of Latinos in America." It is one of the many films featured in the first-ever Global Labor Film Festival, starting May 1, and including a wide range of films from classics such as "Salt of the Earth" and "Reds," to brand-new films like "Dreamwork China," "Harvest of Empire" and "The War on Whistleblowers."

Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals, that show how many of these moral traits all of us share.

Bluesologist Gil Scott-Heron preaches and teaches, accompanied by searing images.

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff's 2010 debt study inspires austerity around the world, but grad student Thomas Herndon debunks the results. 

Michael Isikoff talks with Rachel Maddow about how investigators will interrogate Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and what they'll hope to learn now that he has been captured alive.