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Jay Smooth: The Giant Word: Got-No-Sensitive
September 15, 2010
"Your real friends are the ones who respect you enough to tell you when you're not thinking straight," says Jay Smooth, videoblogger, DJ and commentator. In his latest blog, a collaboration with GIANT magazine, Jay defines the term "got-no-sensitive" for us and traces its history back to Joseph McCarthy.
Vince Warren, Russ Feingold, and Jay Smooth
September 14, 2010
“Do we want to live in a place where the U.S. government can torture and kill people at will? Or do we not?” asks Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. A new Amnesty International report says that thousands of detainees in Iraq, many recently transferred from U.S. custody, are still at risk of torture, and back in the U.S. the Obama administration continues to use "national security" as justification for everything from dismissing lawsuits to searching laptops.
Hari Kondabolu: Health Care and the Lost Art of Compromise
April 13, 2010
Comedian Hari Kondabolu has some thoughts about what kind of starting place progressives should've chosen for health care negotiations. Here's a hint: it involves the phrase "Scalpel-wielding Robin Hoods of the night."
Jay Smooth: Lyricism and Capitalism
March 4, 2010
The always lyrical Jay Smooth weighs in on what rappers think is profitable these days, and how not being lyrical is "the subprime mortgage of hip-hop."
Financial Reform, Animal Factory, and Student Debt
March 3, 2010
Yesterday, we noted that the fangs seem to have been pulled out of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and financial reform seems to be quietly fading from the agenda. But our friends at the Roosevelt Institute are in the middle of a groundbreaking conference on market reform, and we asked a few of their guests to join us in studio.
Jay Smooth: What We Forget When We Talk About John Mayer
February 17, 2010
Even though, Jay Smooth notes, John Mayer's "White privilege is a wonderland," he swears he's not going to talk about Mayer's offensive comments in a recent interview. Why? Because the issues about race that matter aren't one pop star's big mouth: they're structural, systemic, and institutional.
Infrastructure, Kathleen Hanna, and Jay Smooth
February 16, 2010
After our terrifying experience with a manhole explosion and fire at the office last Thursday, the pressing need for infrastructure investment was brought home to us here at GRITtv in a very real way. Years of budget cuts and tax cuts have led to public safety hazards around the country, and the stimulus bill isn't enough to fix all the electrical, structural, and other problems.
Jay Smooth: The Hyde Amendment
January 26, 2010
Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine teamed up with the Center for Reproductive Rights and several of our favorite bloggers and activists to bring you this video on the Hyde Amendment, its restrictions for women's rights, and how Stupak and Nelson would restruct those rights even further. Think about it: if they don't want their tax dollars spent on abortion, what don't YOU want your tax dollars spent on?
Adoptions from Haiti, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, and Afghanistan
January 25, 2010
In the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, we've seen many solutions posed around the world (and even suggested a few of our own). One option that has been raised is allowing more adoptions from Haiti; Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell even got involved in bringing orphans into the U.S., managing to land a plane when relief planes were unable to get in.
Jay Smooth's Poem For The Youth Voter
November 4, 2008
Jay Smooth of The Ill Doctrine, and New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI's Underground Railroad.

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