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We Don’t Want You to Swim in the River
The last time North Korea got frisky, the Navy showed off an anti-missile laser. Now, with the crisis continuing in Ukraine, the Navy is showing off something even scarier.
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The Code of Crisis and Disaster
To respond to a week of triple catastrophe - a UN climate change report, the Ryan budget, the McCutcheon decision - it is crucial to confront and decode our …
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On Climate, Business as Usual
Despite mounting evidence that global warming is an urgent crisis, emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases grew faster between 2000 and 2010 than over the previous three decades.
Homeless and Unemployed in America
The tiny house movement sweeping the country might be the solution to some housing and social problems caused by the recession.
“There’s a Muslim in America Named Muhammad Ali”
Documentary film forces viewers to cope with a black man who floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee in a white world.
IMF Annual Meetings Focus on High Debt Burdens and Global Inequality
The annual International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings are focusing on the role of high debt burdens in both global economic recovery and increasing inequality.
Many Faces of War
Iraq has been occupied for over 11 years now. Over two million troops have flown in and out of theater, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and …
Free Speech Or Bribery?
This month the US Supreme took another step toward the destruction of campaign finance reform with a five to four decision known as McCutcheon v. Federal Elections Commission.
The Resegregation of American Schools
ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her year-long investigation into how one of desegregation's success stories in Tuscaloosa, Alabama became one of the most segregated school systems in the country, …
“We Are Not Beginning a New Cold War, We Are Well Into It”: Stephen Cohen on Russia-Ukraine Crisis
The hosts are joined by Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies and politics at New York University and Princeton University.