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What a Single-Payer Health Insurance Plan Looks Like (Part 1)
Gerald Friedman: A single-payer plan in Maryland would cover everyone, improve outcomes and make business more competitive.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: A 21-Year-Old in Arkansas Was Shot in the Head While Handcuffed in the Back of a Police Car, and More
A 21-year-old in Jonesboro, Arkansas is dead after he was mysteriously shot in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Justice Department Is Again Zeroing In on Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s Voter Purge, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Justice Department is again zeroing in on Florida Gov. Rick Scott's illegal purge of Democratic voters; Congress went on recess this week, …
Robert Pollin: Full Employment Is Possible!
The last time the US saw relatively full employment wasnu2019t in ancient history. It was at the end of the 1990s. We can do it. Pollin lays out how.
LIBOR – Insider Trading on a Massive Scale
Stephany Griffith-Jones: Major banks fixed interest rates to make short term profits and look stronger than they were.
Bill Moyers: Veteran Karl Marlantes on What It’s Like to Go to War
Vietnam veteran and author Karl Marlantes shares how his battlefield experiences both shaped and nearly destroyed him.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Democratic Party Supports Marriage Equality, and More
President Obama will likely become the first ever incumbent President to be outraised by his opponent in his re-election bid, On Monday, the Democratic Party platform drafting committee officially …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Probe Reveals For-Profit Colleges’ Questionable Compensation Practices, and More
In today's On the News segment: The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform finds for-profit colleges pay executives massive salaries based solely on schools' profitability, a Koch-bankrolled climate …
The Berlin Patient: Timothy Ray Brown Speaks Out on Being First Man Cured of HIV
“I believe that this is something that gives hope to a lot of people with HIV and their families. And thatu2019s very important to me,” Brown says.
US Policing: Institutionalizing Brutality?
Orange County news editor points out cops' cavalier attitude, along with the shooting itself, contributed to community outrage after Manuel Diaz's death.