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George Carlin brings comic heat to the belief in the Invisible Man and the -- ahem -- inconsistencies in the story.

Al Madrigal travels to Alabama and Mississippi to see which one of these backwoods, inbred, homophobic states will swim longest against the tide of history.

The roots of bluesman Guy Davis' music are the rhythms and themes of the South. One person's favorite: his album Call Down the Thunder.

When it comes to spying, the American government isn't doing anything to the rest of the world that it isn't already doing to Americans.

Life is powerful, and in order to understand how living systems work, you first have to understand how they originated, developed and diversified over the past 4.5 billion years of Earth's history.

Now a candidate for governor of Texas, in this 2011 interviewWendy Davis simply tells her own story

StopWatching.us is a coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations. In this video, celebrities, activists, legal experts, and other prominent figures speak out against mass surveillance by the NSA

Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,

It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no senator's son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me;
I ain't no fortunate one, no,
Yeah!
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh.
But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me;
I ain't no fortunate one, no.

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer More! more! more! yoh,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me;
I ain't no fortunate one, one.

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no no no,
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate son, no no no
 

Steve McQueen's highly-acclaimed drama 12 Years a Slave opened in seven more cities today, before going national on November 1

Aasif Mandvi investigates non-racist fallout from the Supreme Court's destruction of the Voting Rights Act.