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Friday Nite Videos | March 29, 2024

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Jordan Klepper on Dealing With Jan 6 Rioters. AOC on Looming Famine in Gaza, Will the ICJ's New Orders Help the People of Gaza? What Dollar General Doesn’t Want You To Know. What the Red Sea Ship Attacks Are Really About.

Beyond the Myth of Rural America

Daniel Immerwahr The New Yorker
Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.

Fighting Fire and Fascism in the American West

Patrick Bigger and Sara Nelson Dissent Magazine
Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives. Combatting the rising right and surging wildfires will take a progressive green industrial policy,

Friday Nite Videos | March 24, 2023

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Jordan Klepper Meets Trump Arrest Protesters. De La Soul and The Roots: Stakes Is High. Western Weapons Transform the War in Ukraine. Nuclear Fusion: Who'll Be First To Make It Work? "I Almost Ended My Life Because of the Corrupt Beef Industry."

Friday Nite Videos | July 1, 2022

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AOC: Members Who Sought Pardons Should Be Expelled. SCOTUS Restricts the EPA, R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell Get Prison Sentences. Dark Winds | TV Trailer. How Democrats Can Run And Win In Rural Areas. Salt of the Earth | Movie.

How Democrats Can Run and Win in Rural Areas

Progressive Chloe Maxmin unseated a top Republican in a rural district, then passed one of the first state Green New Deal bills. Here’s what Democrats can learn from her success.

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