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    #VelshiBannedBookClub: 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman

    08:26

  • SC Senator Mia McLeod on abortion ban fight: 'all we’re asking for is a choice'

    06:49

  • Rep. Gottheimer on debt ceiling negotiations: “We’ve got to get out of this cycle of insanity”

    06:28

  • Sen. Sanders: 'Nobody is happy about the 14th Amendment…but it beats where we're at right now'

    00:20

  • Velshi: This single SCOTUS case could upend our entire regulatory system

    06:21

  • Sen. Stabenow: 14th Amendment, discharge petition are 'viable' options to avoid default

    02:10

  • 'The world in general is not that hateful – it’s just lawmakers'

    04:57

  • Fmr. Amb. to Ukraine Yovanovitch: 'If Ukraine does not prevail, Russia will keep going'

    01:52

  • Sen. Coons: 'The single worst thing we could do is default'

    02:13

  • Velshi: It’s up to us to bring down the temperature (literally)

    04:31

  •  #VelshiBannedBookClub: Resisting Book Bans with Lawsuits

    03:49

  • The Florida Department of Education is erasing history from textbooks

    04:42

  • The Constitutional Sheriffs movement subverts democracy

    05:54

  • The strategic roots of the attack on trans rights

    05:02

  • Sen. Tuberville’s verbal gymnastics when asked about white nationalism 

    04:42

  • Gov. Cooper needs just one Republican to help him save abortion rights in NC

    06:16

  • Caitlin Dickerson: Focusing on migrant numbers alone is misleading 

    07:57

  • Browder: Vladimir Kara-Murza 'may be the visionary that’s right in this whole thing'

    05:12

  • #VelshiBannedBookClub: George Takei’s ‘They Called Us Enemy’

    10:15

  • TX Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Elected officials offer prayers instead of policy solutions

    06:22

Ali Velshi

#VelshiBannedBookClub: Todd Strasser talks ‘Give a Boy a Gun’ 

06:35

This week’s meeting of the #VelshiBannedBookClub features “Give a Boy a Gun” by prolific Young Adult author Todd Strasser. “Give a Boy a Gun” was initially published in 2000 – just one year after the Columbine High School massacre. It is the first work of fiction to grapple with the new reality that followed after Columbine: a world where students can die in their classrooms. It is also one of the few books on this topic written for a young adult audience. This is the second weekend in a row that we have discussed the tragic realities of school shootings and the place fiction books can play in working through very serious feelings, generating useful conversation, and -- to whatever extent it is possible -- aiding in understanding.June 11, 2022

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    #VelshiBannedBookClub: 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman

    08:26

  • SC Senator Mia McLeod on abortion ban fight: 'all we’re asking for is a choice'

    06:49

  • Rep. Gottheimer on debt ceiling negotiations: “We’ve got to get out of this cycle of insanity”

    06:28

  • Sen. Sanders: 'Nobody is happy about the 14th Amendment…but it beats where we're at right now'

    00:20

  • Velshi: This single SCOTUS case could upend our entire regulatory system

    06:21

  • Sen. Stabenow: 14th Amendment, discharge petition are 'viable' options to avoid default

    02:10

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