Author: Damian Hendricks

Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss Obama’s support of a Constitutional Amendment to overturn the disastrous Citizens United...

College students today are facing an enormous uphill battle, not only against the predatory student loan industry, but now, against predatory for-profit college scam institutions. These colleges promise all sorts of degrees and credentials, only for students to find out that the colleges aren’t even accredited, and their degrees are essentially worthless. To make matters worse, a federal court this week actually sided with these deceptive, for-profit college scams, and Mike Papantonio recently spoke with Danny Weil from Truthout.org about what happened. Texas GOP Declares: “No More Teaching of ‘Critical Thinking Skills’ in Texas Public...

Most American voters don’t give too much thought to our judicial system, but that system makes up an entire third of our government. And because we pay so little attention, Republican politicians have been packing the courts with industry-friendly hacks for decades. Mike Papantonio discusses the right wing stranglehold on our judiciary with attorney Tim O’Brien. Mass Tort Product...

The NRA wants us all to believe that they have all this money, all this power, all this authority and influence over American politicians. But when you actually start to look at the numbers, they certainly don’t back up that claim. Mike Papantonio recently spoke with Paul Waldman, contributing editor for the American Prospect, about why the NRA isn’t as big and bad as they want us to think. The Myth of NRA Power and Influence...

This past spring has already gone down as the warmest on record. But even before that, the world was breaking temperature records almost every year. All of this adds up to some pretty scary scenarios for our planet, but that’s only half of the story. Mike Papantonio talks about the entire story with Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. Environmental...