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The Work of Sex Work: Laura Flanders With Melissa Gira Grant
Melissa Gira Grant talks about sex work as work and the need to involve sex workers themselves when designing programs to “save” them or the communities where they work.

Racism and Dishonesty in “Post-Racial” America: An Interview With Kiese Laymon
Novelist Kiese Laymon is brutally honest about his experiences growing up black in the South.

Beyond the Minimum Wage: Interview With Jobs With Justice’s Sarita Gupta
How do we use the enthusiasm around raising the minimum wage to promote a more robust vision of economic democracy.

What’s Driving Putin and Obama’s Posturing on Ukraine?
The Real News Network's Jessica Desvarieux interviews a foreign policy expert on posturing by Obama and Putin over Crimea.

Exclusive: NSA, FBI, DIA Sued over Refusal to Disclose US Role in Imprisonment of Nelson Mandela
In a Democracy Now! exclusive, one of the nation's most prolific transparency activists, Ryan Shapiro, reveals he is suing the NSA, FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency in an attempt …

Why Did FBI Monitor Occupy Houston, and Then Hide Sniper Plot Against Protest Leaders?
Transparency activist Ryan Shapiro discusses a growing controversy over the FBI's monitoring of Occupy Houston in 2011. The case centers on what the FBI knew about an alleged assassination …

What You Need to Know About Dark Money
n this three-minute video, investigative reporters Kim Barker and Andy Kroll tell Bill how dark money contributes to Washington's gridlock and why it keeps politicians from acting in the …

How Fallujah Became the Iraqi Government’s New Battleground
Journalist Dahr Jamail discusses how the Iraqi city of Fallujah went from welcoming American intervention to fighting the US-backed Iraqi government.

Dear White People: Film Tackles Racial Stereotypes on Campus and Being a “Black Face in a White Space”
As colleges across the country, from Harvard to University of Mississippi, continue to witness racism on campus, Amy Goodman looks at a new film that tackles the issue through …

Hundreds of Students and Faculty Occupy College Campus To Fight Cuts to Public Higher Ed
University of Southern Maine student Meagan LaSala and professor Rachel Bouvier explain how cuts disproportionately target faculty and will trigger a decline in quality public education.