MinuteEarth
How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse
Today's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out. Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here's a keyword/phrase to get your googling...
TED Talks
TED: The case for a new Great Migration in the US | Charles M. Blow
Social progress in the United States often seems to take two steps forward and one step back, with hard-fought civil rights wins countered by a seemingly inevitable backlash. In this spirited talk, writer Charles M. Blow makes the case...
TED Talks
TED: My quest to end the horror of gun violence in the US | Lucy McBath
US Congresswoman Lucy McBath has made it her mission to seek bipartisan solutions for gun safety, leading the way in sponsoring so-called "red flag" laws that prevent gun violence and mass shootings. In a searing and timely talk, she...
PBS
Families with transgender children struggle to navigate wave of anti-trans politics
Texas is the largest state in the country to ban transition-related medical care for minors, joining 19 other states that have restricted access. Laura Barrón-López recently spent time in Texas to learn more about the law and spoke with...
SciShow
NASA Needs You
Hank usually likes to keep science and politics separated, but the reality is that a lot of scientific research in the United States is funded by the government. This is a problem right now because the disfunction in the world of...
Crash Course
Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater: Crash Course Theater #44
Are you ready to learn something about the world? Then you're ready for Bertolt Brecht, and his ideas about Epic Theater. Brecht wanted to lean into the idea of theater as a tool to upset and educate the world about stuff like the...
Curated Video
Republicans, Dems clash at Clinton email hearing
Republican and Democratic lawmakers clashed and three witnesses ordered to testify on Capitol Hill about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server either did not appear, or refused to answer questions, invoking the Fifth Amendment....
Curated Video
President Bush said Tuesday that Congress is blocking his proposals to deal with high gas prices and dragging its feet on legislation to make more student loans available and ease the mortgage crunch.
HEADLINE: Bush exhorts Congress to act on slumping economy
CAPTION: President Bush said Tuesday that Congress is blocking his proposals to deal with high gas prices and dragging its feet on legislation to make more student loans...
Curated Video
SYND 19-5-70 LAIRD NO PLAN TO ENTER LAOS
Secretary Laird says USA has no plans to go into Laos
1 Capitol
2 pan committee room
3 SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator William Fulbright question regarding sending combat troops into Laos
4 SOUNDBITE: (English) Melvin Laird reply...
Curated Video
Peruvian Congress votes to kick out members who were pro Fujimori
File - April 1998
1. Amateur video of Vladimiro Montesinos meeting with Pro-Fujimori congressmen
Lima - August 16
2. Zoomout of vote in Congress
3. Medium shot of public celebrating the outcome
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carmen Lozada de...
Curated Video
SYND 20 8 75 PRESIDENT FORD AT US LEGION CONFERENCE
President Gerald Ford atttended the American Legion Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He spoke about the Defence budget being at the bare minimum, to assure national security. Unless there is progress towards arms reduction with the...
Curated Video
Bush says he will veto Iraq withdrawal bill, Pelosi reaction
1. Wide interior of US Senate floor
2. US President George W. Bush walks to podium at National Cattlemen's Beef Association
3. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:
"What is clear is that the consequences of imposing such a...
Curated Video
USA: WASHINGTON: HAITIAN AMERICANS STAGE AMNESTY DEMONSTRATION
English/Nat
Hundreds of Haitian-Americans demonstrated on the steps of the Capitol in Washington D-C on Monday urging Congress to include them in a planned amnesty program for illegal immigrants.
The Haitian immigrants are asking U-S...
Curated Video
GOP, Dems Clash at Clinton Email Hearing
Republican and Democratic lawmakers clashed and three witnesses ordered to testify on Capitol Hill about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server either did not appear, or refused to answer questions, invoking the Fifth Amendment....
Curated Video
GOP, Dems Clash at Clinton Email Hearing
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus062939Republican and Democratic lawmakers clashed and three witnesses ordered to testify on Capitol Hill about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server either did not appear, or refused to...
Crash Course
Legal System Basics: Crash Course Government and Politics
This week Craig Benzine takes a first look at the judicial branch. It's pretty easy to forget that the courts, and the laws that come out of them, affect our lives on a daily basis. But how exactly these decisions are made and where each...
Crash Course
Judicial Decisions: Crash Course Government and Politics
Today, Craig Benzine is going to dive into the factors that influence judicial decisions. As you may have noticed, the Supreme Court recently handed down some pretty big decisions on same-sex marriage (in Obergefell v Hodges) and the...
Crash Course
Sex Discrimination: Crash Course Government and Politics
Today, Craig is going to talk about employment discrimination, and we're going to focus primarily on women in the workforce. Discrimination against women tends to be handled somewhat differently in the courts as they are not a minority....
Crash Course
Congressional Leadership: Crash Course Government and Politics
This week Craig Benzine explores the leadership structure of congress. We’ll break out the clone machine to examine the responsibilities of the speaker of the house, the majority and minority leaders as well as the majority and minority...
Crash Course
How Presidents Govern: Crash Course Government and Politics
This week Craig Benzine talks about how the president gets things done. Filling the role of the executive branch is a pretty big job - much too big for just one person. It's so big that the president employs an entire federal...
Crash Course
Supreme Court of the United States Procedures: Crash Course Government and Politics
This week Craig Benzine talks about what happens when a case makes it to the Supreme Court of the United States (or the SCOTUS). We're going to focus on court procedure today. We talk about how to petition to get your case heard, how...
Crash Course
Congressional Delegation: Crash Course Government and Politics
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about delegation, and informal powers. What are all these federal agencies about? Well, the president has a lot of stuff to do as the chief executive, and as much as Americans like to talk about...
Crash Course
Gilded Age Politics Crash Course US History
In which John Green teaches you about the Gilded Age and its politics. What, you may ask, is the Gilded Age? The term comes from a book by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner titled, "The Gilded Age." You may see a pattern emerging...
Crash Course
Political Campaigns: Crash Course Government and Politics
So political campaigns are a pretty big deal in the United States. For instance the 2012 presidential election clocked in at the most expensive ever - at around $6 billion dollars! Needless to say, money plays a very big role in American...