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I undertook the writing of my new book, The reporting for this book began in 2007, when I was a teenager. Over the next year, I was admitted to three therapeutic treatment programs for adolescents in New York, Massachusetts, and Utah. In total, I was incarcerated for 288 days. These programs were known for their exploratory approach to therapy, which amounted to a brutal, forced redirection of wayward teenagers. They focused on breaking us down, but as one former client told me, “they were n...

Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence North Carolina poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green 2021 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence Readings The week will include two public events—a panel on Environmental Justice and a conversation moderated by Gene Nichol, class visits by each writer, a community outreach with a local high school and a writing session with UNC creative writing students, and a celebratory dinner. Monday, Feb 22: CHANGE: Due to weather conditions and travel, Rev. William Barber II wi...

it your putting products in the trade four times a day. you need prices covered, liquidity. there is a sense of somehow or another -- ive taken risk, moved it from here to here, it is gone. it is not gone. it is still there. we cannot that basic fundamental understanding. i agree with gary. financial stability and transparency in the regulators. theyre struggling with how do you capture the risk in the system, how do you identify it. of information. hopefully well get there. brits does...

you can also find us online or in thes a tweet or conversation on facebook. you can also e-mail us at journal @c-span.org. lots of coverage of president press conference. host: looking at some of the other headlines -- it is day 100 and president obamas second term -- lets listen to present obama respond to that question. [video clip] youru are 100 days into second term. on the gun bill, you put everything into a to get it passed and it didnt. congress has ignored your efforts to get t...

impact on the stability of the region. i can talk about any one of those in great detail. you can see some of the reasoning behind our thoughts in that regard on the right. in the interest of time, i want to move on and talk about the next region and then we will punt to qa for the discussion. basichas four or five trends. the most common is an increase in competition for regional territory sources and freedom of action within the region and into the region. there are alternative featu...

pittsburgh talking about his life in the court. his political views, and how they have evolved. that is at 9:00. we follow that with chairman dempsey. he was speaking in washington, covering some of the same ground the president did, including talking about the effects of sequestration in the military, his thoughts on syria. it is coming up at about 10:00 eastern. up next, we will take you to the 50 minute news conference, president obama talking to the news reporters in the press room...

of the state of sudan as an area through which they could send equipment through sudan to egypt to the gaza strip. as i said, the case itself is a case it shows the audacity of certain iranians and i think it shows the iranians are -- in addition to talking to them, must be told in no uncertain terms by actions taken by like the action of the u.s. government that the certain times of conduct will never be tolerated. >> dianne from -- [inaudible] wants to know what your assessment is of...

First of all, bad things happen to snitches. theyre sent into dangerous situations and sometimes they dont come out. bad things happen to the police who work with them, because they are tempted to cut their snitches some slack, to let them get away with illegal activities when they shouldnt. and then ultimately an unsupervised snitch can corrupt the whole law enforcement cycle, because youve got somebody with a stake in something other than justice. they have self-interest, they want to make mon...

Theres a through the looking glass economy, where big fish snitch on little fish, and where scenes happen like the one described by ted conover in his cover story, "a snitchs dilemma," where his snitch is in a police car, functionally kidnapped. "he escaped from the police car, dashed across the street and ran inside the varsity. the police, leaving their car in the middle of the road, jumped out in pursuit. white exited the restaurant, recrossed the street, and did what any frightened citizen m...

>> all i can say, silly white people. >> well, well pick up the chicken talk later, but were going to start now with those june jobs numbers, and any way sliced, those numbers are not good. in june, only a net gain of 80,000 jobs. for april, may, and june, the numbers hit a two-year low. there are two aspects to this, the economic and the political, and its hard to separate the two if you subscribe to the notion that the worse the job numbers are, the better off the republicans are and...