Rep. Keith Ellison: ‘Our government has a responsibility to the poor’
“If you don’t have any detractors, you’re probably not doing much.” —Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. watch video
Topic: Public health
Why are homeless veterans in LA being blocked from using Brentwood land donated for their shelter?
“It seems like the main reason the VA doesn’t want to house homeless vets on the Brentwood campus is that it’s a very upscale neighborhood.” —Jon Wiener watch video
Could women at risk for cancer overidentify with Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy decision?
“A BRCA mutation is a very rare thing. … The choices that face those women are stark, difficult and personal.” —Peggy Orenstein watch video
Wendell Potter: Hospital fee disparity is ‘a complete failure’ of the unregulated marketplace
“You’ve had kind of an arms race among hospitals to have all the equipment that in many cases is just a surplus of equipment. It’s a duplication of services.” —Wendell Potter watch video
Susan Burke: If the military fails to prosecute sexual assault, there will be more rapes
“Currently the way the system works is very perpetrator centric, rather than victim centric.” —Retired Air Force Staff Sgt. Colleen Bushnell watch video
John Fugelsang: ‘Nobody has ever been pro-abortion’
“If men could get pregnant, all abortion would be safe and free — and macho schmucks in locker rooms would be bragging over who’s had the most.” —John Fugelsang watch video
‘Why is it that when it comes to Texas, we know so little?’ Amy Goodman on the fertilizer plant blast
“We are talking about a case, in a sense, of industrial terrorism.” —Amy Goodman watch video
‘The drugs have won the drug war’: Vanessa Grigoriadis on the boom in online synthetic drugs
“Most of these drugs are actually inferior products to something like cannabis.” —Vanessa Grigoriadis watch video
NAACP President Ben Jealous: America’s solution to ‘almost every problem’ is incarceration
“Rehabilitation is seven times more effective, dollar for dollar, than incarceration.” —Ben Jealous watch video
Is the war on women ramping up? Restrictive abortion laws emerge in several states
“The majority of Americans want abortion to be safe and legal.” —Irin Carmon watch video
