Take our 2026 Audience Survey! https://to.pbs.org/2026SurveyRH The American Revolution wasn’t just fought on battlefields, it was fought in breadlines too. As war dragged on and inflation skyrocketed, ordinary women and laborers found themselves starving while wealthy merchants and speculators hoarded food for profit. Across the colonies, mobs took to the […]
Saratoga Springs was home to one of the biggest disasters of all time. Stephen Colbert investigates why 350 municipal employees were marked dead, despite being alive and well. #DailyShow #TDS30 #Colbert #Taxes #SaratogaSprings Subscribe to The Daily Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Daily Show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailyshow Stream […]
In his first appearance on Late Night in 2014, Michael Che performs his first stand-up set for the show to joke about paying taxes, America’s debt to China and more. (Original Air Date: 2/28/14) Late Night with Seth Meyers. Stream now on Peacock: https://bit.ly/3erP2gX Subscribe to Late Night: http://bit.ly/LateNightSeth Watch […]
A Black and Wampanoag sailor who escaped enslavement, Crispus Attucks was the first man to fall when British troops opened fire on a crowd of disgruntled colonists in Boston, 1770. Patriots like Paul Revere branded it a massacre, with Attucks being assigned the role of martyr. The real controversy came […]
On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, Tom and Drew take stock of what actually built the most prosperous nation in history — and what’s quietly tearing at it. The through-line: a rising socialist movement that says it’s fighting for the working class, and the mechanism that shows it robs […]
See the rest of J’s video here: https://youtu.be/bwoFajsD95k Despite the revolutionary atmosphere in early America, homosexuality was still punishable by death. Though Founding Fathers knew of Steuben’s “proclivities,” they let Steuben continue to help them win. By contrast, British Army chaplain Robert Newburgh stood trial for homosexual conduct, and used […]
In the 1760s, powerful men in the American colonies were in danger. The working class people beneath them were sick of the corruption and bullying, and were ready to rebel. All they needed was a ferocious leader willing to take on the fight. Herman Husband was an enigma. Though a […]
Immigrant and Vermont congressman Matthew Lyon was in jail when he was reelected. Not for the fight he started in the halls of Congress but for his willingness to criticize the relatively new government of the United States. For the first time in American history, freedom of speech was up […]
The Brits are invading (typical)! Plainly Difficult has ousted Qxir as the host of ‘Tales From the Bottle’ in an episode detailing Peter the Great’s beard tax. Qxir has mounted a counter-attack on Plainly Difficult’s channel by similarly taking over a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-6H_FWFi3A Thanks to Plainly Difficult for collaborating with […]
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Politics and Economics Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Engagement with the the fundamentals of political philosophy is an essential step toward being able to think critically about the power structures in place […]
