Building power for working people

Tag: Class Room

We Talked To Air Traffic Controllers. What We Heard Will Shock You.

In the last year, there were over 500 near-miss collisions by major commercial airlines. We talked to air traffic controllers to understand what's going on.…

How Harvard University Got Rich

Harvard's endowment is a whopping $51 billion. That's larger than the GDP of more than 120 nations — and all the money is tax free.…

Our Camera Footage Got Raided. You Won’t Believe Why.

A few decades ago, the federal government introduced a misguided, market-based system to conserve our oceans. Now, thousands of small fishermen are going out of…

How Four Companies Took Over Our Food Supply

Did you know you can patent a living thing? Decades of lobbying made that possible. Now just four companies control the intellectual property behind nearly…

We Investigated Roblox: Your Kid’s Favorite Game Is Exploiting Them

More than half of all U.S. kids aged 6 to 16 are spending time on a video gaming app that could be exploiting them, with anti-consumer…

How KFC’s War On Arby’s Ruined American Health Care

What happens when you run health care like a fast-food chain? You get America’s largest for-profit hospital system: HCA Healthcare. This is the story of…

This Is The Man Who Really Killed Roe v. Wade

The real power behind the U.S. Supreme Court isn’t Chief Justice John Roberts. It’s a man who has never been elected or appointed, who most…

How Jack Welch Broke America

Hosted by F.D. Signifier [News Clips]: Perhaps the most influential and imitated, not to mention the most controversial corporate CEO of the last half century—…

Customer Service Sucks By Design

Hosted by Ethan is Online Host: Remember around the holidays when thousands of Southwest flights were canceled and customers were sleeping(00:46) in airports and (00:12)…

How Silicon Valley Bank’s CEO Got Rich: A $209 Billion Disaster

Narrated by Second Thought Zachary D. Carter:  I think it's pretty clear, the regulated banks didn't fail. The deregulated bank just did. It is as…

Playing with Players’ Lives: How the NFL Hid a Crisis Killing Athletes

Chris Nowinski: The NFL is an enormous business with more than $11 billion a year in revenue, and the job that they ask people to…

How This Billionaire Couple Stole California’s Water Supply

While 40 million Californians suffer through unprecedented drought, one billionaire couple owns a massive share of the state's water system, largely seized in a series…