A major investigation in Sunday’s New York Times, headlined “In Bloomberg, Liberals See a Wallet Too Big to Offend,” lays out how Bloomberg established a foundation for potential critics to stay silent during his presidential bid by making major donations to progressive causes and advocacy groups in dozens of states and cities. The Times estimates Bloomberg has spent at least $10 billion on his charitable and political pursuits related to his political ambitions.
Read MoreOn Friday February 7, Democracy Now! co-host Nermeen Shaikh sat down for a rare joint interview with the Squad, the group of four freshmen Democratic congresswomen who have taken Capitol Hill by storm: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Nermeen Shaikh spoke with the four politicians at an event organized by The Rising Majority at Howard University.
Read MoreThe plan was drafted by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner without any input from Palestinians and would give Israel sovereignty over large areas of the occupied West Bank, control over all of Jerusalem, and keep all illegal settlements built in the occupied West Bank. We speak with Mehdi Hasan, senior columnist at The Intercept, and Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University
Read MoreIn touching tributes all around the NBA, players honored the memory of Kobe Bryant with 8 second backcourt violations and 24 second shot clock violations in recognition of the jersey numbers he wore.
Read MoreMia & Khalil, a father and daughter separated for years by the federal prison system, discuss the hardship that has defined their relationship. 9 year old Mia bravely opens up about what it meant that her father was incarcerated, and Khalil, now a criminal justice reform activist at JustLeadershipUSA, can only admire how strong his daughter has become.
Read MoreEconomist Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance for Greece, says … you can be in politics today but not be in power — because real power now belongs to those who control the economy. He believes that the mega-rich and corporations are cannibalizing the political sphere, causing financial crisis.
Read MoreIn 2016 a Florida man attempted to run from Boca Raton, FL to Bermuda in a home-made, inflatable plastic bubble. Reza Baluchi had been warned by the Coast Guard that any efforts to attempt his journey would be futile and result in severe legal and financial retribution. This is the story of that fateful journey as told by the man who attempted it.
Read MoreMore than 100 protesters gathered outside Drake University to demand a televised presidential debate on poverty. Led by Reverend William Barber, demonstrators carried a coffin to honor the 250K people who die every year from the impacts of poverty. According to the Poor People’s Campaign, 140 million Americans can’t pay basic living expenses
Read MoreThe directors of “The Great Hack,” Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, as well as former Cambridge Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser and propaganda researcher Emma Briant, discuss Cambridge Analytica’s parent company SCL Group’s history as a defense contractor. “We’re in a state of global information warfare now,” Briant says.
Read MoreAn outstanding lineup of entertainers gathers in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall to salute Dave Chappelle, recipient of the 22nd annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Read MoreMorris Day spoke about meeting Prince in high school, joining his band [and forming] a friendship. Morris went on to speak about Prince and Michael Jackson's competitive relationship and how Rick James hated Prince
Read MoreOne day before Jane Fonda’s 82nd birthday, the longtime political activist, feminist and two-time Academy Award winner was arrested for the fifth time, as she has been nearly every Friday in Washington since she started Fire Drill Fridays, calling for action to address the climate crisis … She was arrested along with more than 140 others inside the Hart Senate Office BuildingThis month Jane Fonda wrote an op-ed in The New York Times headlined “We Have to Live Like We’re in a Climate Emergency. Because We Are.”
Read MoreSlash, poison, burn. That’s what a leading cancer doctor calls the protocol of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. We spend $150 billion each year treating cancer, yet a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it today as one was 50 years ago. Dr. Azra Raza, author of the new book, “The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last”, argues that experiments and the funding for eradicating cancer look at the disease when it is in its later stages, when the cancer has grown and spread. Instead, she says, the focus should be on the very first stages — the first cell, as her book is titled. She says this type of treatment would be more effective, cheaper and less toxic.
Read MoreBobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event "Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus". Watch the full program here: https://youtu.be/S0kCUss0g9Q
Read MoreStarting Dec. 11, 2019, a wax figure of Jimmy will be on display at Madame Tussauds Hollywood. At the museum, they have what they call the 'Jimmy Kimmel Live Experience,' The show brought 'Wax Jimmy' into their office and put it in strange places to surprise staffers with special emphasis on Jimmy's cousin Micki. Wait for it ... lololol
Read MoreRandy Rainbow strikes again with his parody of the Impeachment Inquiry Hearings …
Read MoreThe House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will hear testimony from Ambassador Gordon Sondland, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union.
Free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick worked out in front of NFL scouts on Saturday, but things did not go entirely as planned. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to sports writer Kevin Blackistone.
Read MoreTelevised impeachment hearings have begun into whether President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and his son. It is only the third time in U.S. history there have been televised impeachment hearings.
Opposition is growing in Florida to a water bottling company that wants to take more than a million gallons of water a day from Ginnie Springs. Environmentalists want limits on the amount taken.
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