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How Politicians Rig Elections

93K views · 1w ago · 9:30

Evil Andrew Heaton "fixes" gerrymandering.

The problem with John Oliver

228K views · 1w ago · 11:54

Guest: John Oliver

John Oliver warned against cherry-picked studies. Then he cherry-picked his own. In 2016, the HBO comedian and political commentator John Oliver produced a terrific segment on how TV pundits routinely cite garbage science.

Why is the county BLOCKING a mountain bike park?!

3.4M views · 1w ago · 3:00

Why NYC's composting mandate is FAILING

95K views · 1w ago · 8:23

The city mandates composting, but New Yorkers don’t like to be told what to do with their garbage—and don't seem all that clear on the rules in the first place. Most New Yorkers are lawbreakers and don't even know it. New York City requires residents to separate certain sorts of food scraps from the rest of their trash. Composting diverts waste from landfills, creates nutrient-rich soil, and helps the environment by reducing greenhouse gases.

Why this far-right icon turned against Trump

29K views · 2w ago · 18:42

Once a leading figure in the anti-government militia movement, Ammon Bundy is now speaking out against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, arguing that the same federal overreach he spent years fighting is now being directed at immigrants.

Will Mamdani make housing more affordable?

22K views · 3w ago · 1:23:42

Economist Emily Eisner and former New York State Assemblyman Kenny Burgos debate the resolution, "Mayor Zohran Mamdani's housing policies will make housing more affordable for most New York City residents." Arguing in favor of the resolution is Eisner, the executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute. She is also a co-chair of the New York City Policy Forum.

Dan Osborn: I Reject the Two-Party System

13K views · 3w ago · 29:39

Guest: Dan Osborn

Dan Osborn is running to become Nebraska’s next U.S. Senator, and he’s doing it from outside the two-party system. As an Independent challenging incumbent Republican Senator and former governor Pete Ricketts, Real Clear Polling rates Osborn’s race as a “toss up.” Osborn, a former industrial mechanic, union leader and Navy veteran, has cast himself as a populist outsider taking down the “billionaire Epstein class.” Republicans say he’s just a left-wing Democrat in disguise.

Topics: Why is Osborn running as in independent? · Where does Osborn break from Democrats? · Osborn responds to leaked border wall comments · Democratic Socialists of America · Where will Osborn work with Republicans? · Ending the surveillance state

How the government is making BLTs more expensive

26K views · 1mo ago · 7:44

A BLT looks simple, but bacon rules, lettuce labor shortages, and tomato tariffs show how government meddling can make even lunch more expensive. Economist Leonard Read famously observed that no one on Earth is capable of single-handedly making a pencil.

What Fauci Didn't Tell You

63K views · 1mo ago · 32:09

Fauci's diary reveals a self-obsessed career bureaucrat who refused to consider the possibility that his research contributed to origin of COVID-19. Anthony Fauci once claimed that an attack on him is an attack on the entire field of rational, empirical inquiry.