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November 17, 2017

Could This Man Bring Down Michael Flynn?

Katie Zavadski The Daily Beast

Reza Zarrab, whose trial for allegedly cheating U.S. sanctions is scheduled to begin in days, was secretly removed from a federal prison and may be working with prosecutors.

November 17, 2017

How Doug Jones Can Win

Jamelle Bouie Slate

To pull off the upset, he’ll need to convert white voters.

Trump-Proofing America's Nukes

November 17, 2017

The Senate holds a hearing to debate President Trump's power to use nuclear weapons without congressional approval.

Paradise Papers: Watch The Live Digital Premiere

November 17, 2017

The Paradise Papers exposed an unseen world of offshore accounts, hidden money and financial maneuvering at the highest levels of politics, business and finance.

Movie: The Man Who Invented Christmas

November 17, 2017

Charles Dickens connected Scrooge, greed and redemption to Christmas in a book that changed the holiday forever.

Janis Joplin | Down On Me

November 17, 2017

"Down on Me" is a traditional freedom song from the 1920s or earlier that became popular following its remake 50 years ago (1967) by Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company. (Wikipedia)

The Trump Presidency

November 17, 2017

One year after the presidential election, John Oliver discusses what we've learned so far and enlists our catheter cowboy to teach Donald Trump what he hasn't.

November 17, 2017

Friday Nite Videos | November 17, 2017

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John Oliver | The Trump Presidency. Janis Joplin | Down On Me. Movie: The Man Who Invented Christmas. Paradise Papers: Watch The Live Digital Premiere. Trump-Proofing America's Nukes.

November 16, 2017

Weinsteins in the Workplace: Will Unions Be Part of the Solution Or the Problem?

Steve Early Stansbury Forum

It takes continuous organizational effort—in the form of training and recruitment, new leadership development, and structural change–to insure that the bullying, harassing, divide-and-conquer behavior of bosses, big and small, doesn’t infect and weaken the “house of labor” too.

November 16, 2017

Trump's Itchy, Twitchy Finger

Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed

Focusing mainly on Trump's first year in office, the authors emphasize what they call a pattern of systematic reaction, where growing voter frustration regularly drives each party in and out of control. Trump arrived with scant political capital, amassed little and appears to have no strategic competence going forward. While the authors believe Trump can develop one, the essayist faults the authors for offering nothing but wishfulness to back up the assumption.