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Apple vs. the FBI: Inside the Battle Snowden Calls “The Most Important Tech Case in a Decade”; What Is the Government Still Hiding? ACLU Continues Fight to Obtain Photos of Bush-Era Torture; Keep It in the Ground: Author Terry Tempest Williams Buys 1,750 Acres of Oil & Gas Leases in Utah; Targeting Transgender Children, South … Continued
“Thirsty for Democracy: The Poisoning of an American City”: Special Report on Flint’s Water Crisis; What Did GM & the Governor Know? GM Stopped Using Flint Water Over a Year Before Emergency Declared; Meet the Flint Official Whose Bid to Restore Safe Drinking Water Was Blocked by an Unelected Manager; Inside How Citizens, Journalists, Doctors … Continued
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise”: First Film on Writer and Activist Chronicles an Extraordinary Life.
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise”: First Film on Writer and Activist Chronicles an Extraordinary Life.
With Saturday’s death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the most important conservative voice on the Supreme Court in decades, the nation may be heading into a constitutional crisis. Senate Republicans are vowing to block President Obama from filling Scalia’s seat. His death will also have an immediate impact on how the now eight-person court will rule … Continued
War on Wall Street or Wall Street’s Wars? Clinton and Sanders Debate in Wisconsin; Sanders Slams Clinton’s Admiration for “Destructive” Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; Who Endorsed Hillary Clinton? The Congressional Black Caucus or Its PAC Filled with Lobbyists? Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Ideal Presidential Candidate Would Have “Greater Acknowledgment of History.”
Barbara Lee: Post-9/11 Vote Should Not Be Used as Blank Check to Keep Waging Perpetual War; As Congressional Black Caucus PAC Prepares to Back Clinton, Barbara Lee Withholds Endorsement; Could Unelected Superdelegates Give Clinton the Nomination Even If Sanders Wins the Primaries? Justice Dept. Sues Ferguson, Missouri, to Force Police Reforms.
Bernie Sanders on NH Victory: “Tonight We Served Notice to the Political and Economic Establishment”; “An Earthshaking Moment”: Sanders Win Reveals Deep Divide Between Voters & Democratic Party Leaders; After Running Xenophobic & Racist Campaign, Donald Trump Wins Easily in New Hampshire; Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Voting for Bernie Sanders Despite the Senator’s Opposition to Reparations.
Former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin on Running Against Sanders in ’86 & Endorsing Clinton in ’16; Ex-NAACP Head Ben Jealous: Sanders is Most Consistent Candidate Tackling Racism, Militarism & Greed; Hillary Clinton & the “Mass Incarceration Machine”: A Debate on Her Support of 1994 Crime Bill; Bernie Hasn’t Changed His Tune: Ex-Vermont Gov. Says Sanders’ … Continued
Trump Leads GOP Charge Embracing Torture: “I’d Bring Back a Hell of a Lot Worse Than Waterboarding”; Another Bush, Another Preemptive War? Jeb Supports U.S. Military Strikes Against North Korea; Real Estate Magnate Trump Defends Using Eminent Domain to Seize Homes for Private Development; Trump Calls Police “Absolutely Mistreated”; Kasich Backs Collaboration Between Communities & … Continued