Ranked #1

10: More leaders like this, please
10: More leaders like this, please
When Heather McGhee's new job was announced, Elizabeth Warren called her "a champion," the head of the AFL-CIO said he w... Read more
28 Jan 2014
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36mins
Ranked #2

40: Why #BlackLivesMatter
40: Why #BlackLivesMatter
Co-founder Alicia Garza shares the story of how #BlackLivesMatter began—and how it became the rallying cry for a movemen... Read more
4 Feb 2015
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35mins
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Ranked #3

22: You've got to hear this preacher
22: You've got to hear this preacher
Rev. Jim Wallis left evangelical Christianity to fight for social justice—and then found his vocation by mixing them tog... Read more
16 May 2014
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34mins
Ranked #4

28: Cory Booker and Rand Paul: partners on crime
28: Cory Booker and Rand Paul: partners on crime
For decades, criminal justice reform was political Kryptonite. But Cory Booker isn't from Krypton. Booker joins us to ex... Read more
16 Jul 2014
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28mins
Ranked #5

25: Lawrence Lessig, Aaron Swartz, and the Super PAC to end Super PACs
25: Lawrence Lessig, Aaron Swartz, and the Super PAC to end Super PACs
What if you’re doing the wrong thing with your life? That’s what 20-year-old Aaron Swartz asked Lawrence Lessig. In resp... Read more
24 Jun 2014
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34mins
Ranked #6

5: Gillibrand. Rape in the military. NSA World of Warcraft.
5: Gillibrand. Rape in the military. NSA World of Warcraft.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand brings us inside her fight against military sexual assault. She's joined by Navy veteran Trin... Read more
12 Dec 2013
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53mins
Ranked #7

14: This interview is illegal in Uganda
14: This interview is illegal in Uganda
In Uganda, under the new anti-gay law, you—you reading this now—would almost certainly be a criminal. Know gay people, b... Read more
14 Mar 2014
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40mins
Ranked #8

26: Pulitzer winner. Undocumented. American.
26: Pulitzer winner. Undocumented. American.
When Jose Antonio Vargas was 16, he discovered his green card was fake. At 26, he won journalism’s biggest prize. At 30,... Read more
1 Jul 2014
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41mins
Ranked #9

13: Social Security cuts: the clearest explanation anywhere
13: Social Security cuts: the clearest explanation anywhere
A year ago, President Obama did something jaw-dropping, and not in a good way: He proposed, in his budget, cuts to Socia... Read more
7 Mar 2014
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48mins
Ranked #10

21: Beating the Koch brothers
21: Beating the Koch brothers
The documentary Citizen Koch was almost crushed by the Koch brothers' power. But filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal fou... Read more
6 May 2014
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35mins
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23: The plot to bring democracy to America
23: The plot to bring democracy to America
The National Popular Vote campaign is on track to do the impossible: fix the broken, crazy, undemocratic way the USA pic... Read more
28 May 2014
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44mins
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27: War on women? Meet the resistance
27: War on women? Meet the resistance
UltraViolet co-founder Nita Chaudhary takes us behind the scenes in the insurgent, devastatingly effective campaign to m... Read more
11 Jul 2014
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35mins
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9: This prison is weird
9: This prison is weird
A guy commits some crimes, gets caught, goes to prison. And then everything gets weird. Plus, before that: 2014's first ... Read more
24 Jan 2014
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38mins
Ranked #14

2: Obamacare. DREAMers. Escaping the fever swamp.
2: Obamacare. DREAMers. Escaping the fever swamp.
As seen by denizens of the far-right fever swamps of American politics, Obamacare is a terrifying nightmare—a nightmare ... Read more
22 Nov 2013
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #15

20: Minimum wage myths, busted
20: Minimum wage myths, busted
Opponents of raising the minimum wage like to claim that economists are on their side. They're wrong. In this episode: t... Read more
24 Apr 2014
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44mins
Ranked #16

11: Utah? Gay marriage in Utah?
11: Utah? Gay marriage in Utah?
The story of Utah's same-sex marriage movement starts with chutzpah and ends with a ridiculously, touchingly exuberant s... Read more
7 Feb 2014
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42mins
Ranked #17

12: Did we just prevent a war with Iran?
12: Did we just prevent a war with Iran?
The Iran sanctions bill was the kind of measure that usually passes Congress unanimously. And, as always, dozens of Sena... Read more
25 Feb 2014
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49mins
Ranked #18

17: The Nanny Uprising
17: The Nanny Uprising
Big Oil. Bankers. Global mega-corporations. Those are the powerful. But sometimes, the powerless win too—and this episod... Read more
4 Apr 2014
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40mins
Ranked #19

15: The really dumb reason 5 million people are uninsured
15: The really dumb reason 5 million people are uninsured
For 5 million unlucky Americans, health care reform currently means... zilch. But as Ron Pollack, the country's leading ... Read more
20 Mar 2014
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38mins
Ranked #20

16 Guns in libraries, Hobby Lobby birth control, happy dolphins
16 Guns in libraries, Hobby Lobby birth control, happy dolphins
An all-Win Report episode! The latest victories and defeats—plus a special Winportunity report from MSNBC's Irin Carmon,... Read more
27 Mar 2014
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19mins