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    #VelshiBannedBookClub: 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman

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

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

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

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

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

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  • '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'

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

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  • 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’

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

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Three Americans held captive abroad released this week

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This week, three Americans being detained or held hostage abroad were released. There are currently at least 60 Americans being held captive abroad. More and more, detainees are being held by governments and foreign nation-states, rather than terror groups – so the U.S. government needs new tactics of engagement. Diane Foley founded the James W Foley Legacy Foundation after the 2014 murder of her son by ISIS, when U.S. government policy was not to communicate with captors. “Without any engagement, his fate was sealed, and that of the other Americans”, she said. “ Nobody is going to come home if we will not speak to the people holding our citizens.”