• Corporations go overseas to avoid U.S. taxes

    Corporations go overseas to avoid U.S. taxes

    Apr 29, 2017 09:19 PM EST

    ... SABGA: Veronique de Rugy is a Senior Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University -- a conservative think tank partially funded by the Koch Brothers. She says corporate taxes ultimately fall on workers. VERONIQUE DE DERUGY: Economics 101 -- we know now that the person writing the check is not ...

  • Immigration crackdown fears fuel uncertainty for undocumented students

    Immigration crackdown fears fuel uncertainty for undocumented students

    Apr 25, 2017 11:23 PM EST

    ... immigrants in her free time. YAEL: I feel privileged to be here at UCLA. When I think about my future, unfortunately, everything seems really uncertain right now. KAVITHA CARDOZA: For high school senior Elena, classes are a refuge. ELENA, Undocumented High School Student: I motivated myself to take challenges, like ...

  • After life-shattering loss, Sheryl Sandberg reaches out to others in grief

    After life-shattering loss, Sheryl Sandberg reaches out to others in grief

    Apr 24, 2017 11:22 PM EST

    ... first died, I thought it was my fault. The initial report said he'd died of head trauma from falling off an exercise machine. My brother's a neurosurgeon, and he told me that wasn't true. When we got the autopsy, we realized he had died of a cardiac ...

  • Did Obamacare help or hurt you?

    Did Obamacare help or hurt you?

    Mar 23, 2017 09:27 PM EST

    ... his knees. He was left scarred and could only eat through a tube, but he survived. Today, he loves to play video games, especially Mario Brothers and Lego Dimensions, and will celebrate his 10th birthday this June. Annually, his medical bills for hospital visits and a dozen medications add up ...

  • GOP push on health plan; conservatives, Democrats oppose it

    GOP push on health plan; conservatives, Democrats oppose it

    Mar 08, 2017 03:10 PM EST

    ... powerful conservative backlash threatened to sink it. "As the bill stands today, it is Obamacare 2.0," according to a statement by the billionaire Koch Brothers'-backed Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks groups. "Millions of Americans would never see the improvements in care they were promised, just as Obamacare failed ...

  • Conservative backlash threatens to sink new GOP health bill

    Conservative backlash threatens to sink new GOP health bill

    Mar 06, 2017 11:51 PM EST

    ... that sprang up to oppose passage of "Obamacare" in the first place. "As the bill stands today, it is Obamacare 2.0," the billionaire Koch Brothers'-backed Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks groups said in a statement. "Passing it would be making the same mistake that President Obama, Harry Reid ...

  • ‘This is a story that won’t let us go’: New book revisits racial injustice of Emmett Till’s murder

    ‘This is a story that won’t let us go’: New book revisits racial injustice of Emmett Till’s murder

    Mar 04, 2017 12:48 AM EST

    In “The Blood of Emmett Till,” author Timothy Tyson revisits the history of a notorious killing by revealing new details from the woman at the center of the allegations that led to Till’s murder and the acquittal of his murderers. Tyson sits down with Jeffrey Brown for a book conversation.

  • Conservatives learn dealing with Trump can be complicated

    Conservatives learn dealing with Trump can be complicated

    Feb 23, 2017 02:42 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — For the past eight years, thousands of conservative activists have descended on Washington each spring with dreams of putting a Republican in the White House.

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  • Democrats aim to reclaim the working class vote

    Democrats aim to reclaim the working class vote

    Feb 19, 2017 08:33 PM EST

    President Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, in part, by capturing the white working class vote in Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania that previously voted for Democratic candidates. Now, some Democrats are trying to rebuild their base in blue-collar neighborhoods like those in northeast Philadelphia. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield reports.