and catherine t. macarthuroundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. as you've heard, eric holder has announced that he's resigning as attorney general. he will leave behind a mixed scorecard -- "a" for civil rights, "c" for civil liberties and "f" for failing to prosecute the banking executives who brought about the financial calamity of 2008. holder let the bankers off the hook individually as he negotiated civil settlements with their institutions for issuing mortgage-backed securities tied to faulty where a federal jury acquitted four mortgage holders charged with fraud after hearing testimony that bank executives had pulled out all the stops to sedu

and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. let's talk one more time about why inequality matters. some people say it doesn't, but they're living in an ideological fairyland on the far side of the looking glass. in the real world, inequality is a deep and divisive force. we see that politically all the time, as the rich buy elections and then shape the laws to their advantage. but in this episode, let's look at just one of the basic needs of life affected by inequality -- a place to live. across our country, millions of people of ordinary means can't afford decent housing. in new jersey, just on the other side of the hudson ri

and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. rarely has a novel been so universally acclaimed as marilynne robinson's "lila." "an unflinching book," says "the new yorker." "an exquisite novel of spiritual redemption and love," reports "the washington post." and that's just for starters in this latest of her books examining the lives of a minister, his wife, their son and neighbors in a fictional town in iowa. the first, "gilead," won marilynne robinson the pulitzer prize. "home" followed. and now "lila," nominated just this week for the national book award, filled, as one reviewer wrote, "with quiet epiphanies." exactly what we

and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. i'll wager that in the first seven pages of this book, "losing our way," you will be hooked. and when you close the final chapter, you will have seen our country as you haven't in a long time -- intimately, through the eyes of a great reporter. his stories take us across america, from the best buy headquarters in minnesota to ordinary homes in allentown, pennsylvania. you will meet jessica gallardo at her high school in brooklyn, and rico and frankie blancaflor of montclair, new jersey, survivors of hurricane sandy. you will never forget what happened in an orchard in afghanistan to l

and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more infmation at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. like many of you, i've been watching congress since the midterm elections, and what i've seen has me thinking of king louis xvi of france. his majesty was a good friend of the american revolution, but when he gave benjamin franklin a gold snuff box with the monarch's portrait surrounded with diamonds, some of our founding fathers objected. they worried that the gift would corrupt his judgment and unduly bias franklin in france's favor. ever since, we americans have been debating the meaning of corruption. today, gifts to politicians that were once called graft or bribes are called cont

and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. in tuesday's elections, money tore its way through our political system like a flash fire and burned its way right down to the foundations. the non-partisan center for responsive politics finds that in races for the house of representatives, the candidate who spent the most money prevailed about 94 percent of the time; in senate races, about 81 percent of the time. much of it was "dark money" from shadowy groups that do not have to disclose their donors. you may never know who really owns the senator or representative, the governor or state judge you voted for. in this penumbra of pol

and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. this just in from the prophetic andy borowitz, with midterm elections a few days away, "a new poll indicates that billionaires are likely to retain control of the united states government. proxy candidates of billionaires are likely to win 98% of next tuesday's races, with the remaining 2% leaning billionaire." now andy borowitz is one of our leading humorists, and i figured he was joking. but now i'm not so sure. and neither, i'd guess, is united states senator bernie sanders. because a couple of weeks ago, bernie sanders was in richmond, california, a small city of just over 100,000

and catherine t. macarthuroundation, committed to uilding a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public areness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're yr retirement company. >> welcome. it's unbelievable, and frankly outrageous, that in the last four years, close to half the states in this country have passed laws making it harder for people to vot but it's true. and whereas once upon a time, in the south of my youth, it was democrats who used the poll tax, literacy tests and outright intimidation to keep black people from voting, today it's the republicans working the levers of suppression, as if something in their dna demands it. listen to one of the founding fathers of the conservative movement, paul weyrich, back in 1980. >> i don't want everybody to vote. elections are

and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. what happens when two college professors leave the theories of the classroom behind for the real world of bare-knuckle politics? well, they learn a lesson the hard way. just ask zephyr teachout and larry lessig. each is an outstanding scholar. she teaches constitutional and property law at fordham law school here in new york, and recently published this highly acclaimed book, "corruption in america: from benjamin franklin's snuff box to citizens united." larry lessig teaches law at harvard and directs that university's edmond j. safra center for ethics. both champion free and fair com

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major support for frontline is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by tfrontline journalism fund, with a grant from millicent bell, through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. >> bergmacsi is the most watched drama series in the world, brimming with flash and glamour, where cutting-edge forensic technology always reveals the truth. (siren wailing) but crime scene investigations in the real world are rarely so simple. >> (on radio): go ahead. >> county 51, can you advise the tow yard that's housing the 187 vehicle from the ninth? case number 275. >> 10-4, you there? >> negative. i need to know so i can... >> 10-4, give me just a momen. i'm finishing up with a spanish interpreter. >> bergman: detective joanna grivetti leads the crime scene investigation unit for the police department in richmond, california,

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