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Alexandria Bombach: An Urgent Call for Humanity in the Age of Trump

November 9, 2018 0 Comments

The film director discusses her documentary, "On Her Shoulders," the Yazidi people, and the challenges of telling the story of Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Nadia Murad.

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Lee Camp: ‘We’re in a New Age of McCarthyism’

November 2, 2018 0 Comments

The comedian explores the legacy of Lenny Bruce, big tech's capacity to strangle independent media and the freedom of working for a network like RT America.

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Lyle Jeremy Rubin: Who Loves War? You Guessed Wrong

October 26, 2018 0 Comments

The Ph.D. candidate and war veteran explores his disillusionment with liberals, whose anti-war politics are anything but.

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Jamie Garcia: The Disastrous ‘War on Terror’ Has Come Home

October 19, 2018 0 Comments

Jamie Garcia of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition explores how new technologies have radically altered the way we police our major cities.

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Jason Stanley: America Is on the Road to Becoming a Fascist State

October 5, 2018 0 Comments

The Yale philosophy professor reflects on Trump's ultranationalism and the eerie parallels between the U.S. and pre-war Germany.

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Jeff Adachi: How America Came to Have the World’s Biggest Prison Population

September 28, 2018 0 Comments

The Japanese-American public defender tells how his family's past affects his present and reveals why he withdrew his support of California's new bail law.

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Susan Lacy: Jane Fonda Is a Living, Breathing Rebuke of the Patriarchy

September 21, 2018 0 Comments

The "Jane Fonda in Five Acts" director reflects on the film star's personal evolution and her sui generis brand of political activism.

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Anand Giridharadas: Billionaires Are the Lethal Monkey on the Back of the American Public

September 14, 2018 0 Comments

The "Winners Take All" author explains how the philanthropy of the 1 percent creates harmful illusions.

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Helen Sklar: Bill Clinton Enabled Trumps Immigration Policy

September 7, 2018 0 Comments

The immigration attorney explores Democrats' key role in forging some of our country's most xenophobic policies.

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Alissa Quart: The American Middle Class and the Rise of the Precariat

August 31, 2018 0 Comments

The "Squeezed" author examines our runaway income inequality and the possible solutions offered by democratic socialism.

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Jacob Snow: Is ReKognition the Face of Surveillance, Useful or Dangerous?

August 24, 2018 0 Comments

The American Civil Liberties Union attorney examines the close partnership between private enterprise and the surveillance state.

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Zeiad Abbas: Western Media Has Abandoned Palestine

August 17, 2018 0 Comments

The filmmaker, journalist and refugee describes living conditions of Palestinians under the state of Israel and condemns the alliance between Trump and Netanyahu.