The U.S. government spends far more money every year than it takes in, thus increasing the national debt. To help balance the federal budget and pay for programs and services, should the government raise taxes on the richest one-percent of the population, or are the rich already taxed enough?

In neighborhoods ravaged by years of disinvestment and racial exclusion, too many children and young people like Caheri Gutíerrez, Antonio Carter, and Javier Arango wrestle with sudden rages, nightmares, inability to trust, depression, and difficulty concentrating in school. Traumatized by violence, poverty, and adversity as disturbing as some war zones, they show symptoms similar to PTSD—except there is no “post.” But peer counselors, doctors,...

While Prohibition made it to illegal to sell, transport or make alcohol in the United States, the top brass in the US Congress were able to stay well-lubricated – thanks to the nefarious work of famed bootlegger, George Cassiday.

From children playing at the sandlot to the Olympics, the one thing athletic competitions have in common is that they all center around a game. This program scrutinizes athletics today through its evolution from a sport played for fun into a multibillion-dollar industry that can symbolize the problem of greed and the attitude of winning at all costs. Featured on the program are: sports broadcaster Dick Vitale; Tom McMillen, former basketball star...

There's a saying here in Cuba, says Carlos. "It's better to put up with the bad guy you know, because you don't know what the next guy will be like." Is Havana a charming refuge set apart from the capitalist world, or a failed political experiment? This lyrical documentary offers a glimpse of Havana's vibrant street life, where Castro's idealism meets consumer reality. Backed by a powerful soundtrack featuring Latin Grammy nominee X Alfonso, the film...

Kidnapping and selling children is big business in China, where every year more than 20,000 are stolen. In the majority of cases, the birth parents lack the resources or connections to find their missing children, while police investigations drag on for years and are rarely resolved. China's Stolen Children focuses on the cases of two young girls: 3-year-old Wamping, who was abducted two years ago, and Dai-kidnapped at 10 and who, 22 years later,...

Bilal, a 16-year-old slave in Mauritania, runs away from his master in order to find his mother, who had to give him up when he was only 2 years old. Tracking the reunion of Bilal and his mother, this documentary reports on the problem of slavery in Mauritania and the maltreatment suffered by its legions of unpaid, captive workers. Attempts to abolish slavery in the West African country have been made since 1901, but the practice is culturally entrenched;...

Marx divided the industrial world into two antagonistic classes: the bourgeois and the proletariat. In today's society, this simple dichotomy fails to capture the many segments of a global marketplace. From the communal hunter/gatherers and agrarian cultures; to ancient empires and medieval fiefdoms; to the technocrats, executives, laborers, and others of the stratified modern world, this program examines how each era has organized its members into...

In this video, Hazel Henderson interviews Terry Mollner, author of Common Good Capitalism: It's Next!. They discuss the future of capitalism and their desire that private companies will implement ethical rules on competition. Topics include: social responsibility, Ben and Jerry's, Unilever, and the role of duopolies.

Almost half a century of American economic and commercial sanctions have left Cuba impoverished, but far from being crushed, the Cuban people embrace the opportunity to improvise. "You can't just buy things," a woman explains. "You have to invent them." One entrepreneur fashioned a motorbike from parts of a Chinese bicycle and the front of a Soviet rig; and with no cosmetics available, women concoct homemade alternatives using shoe polish and crayons....