PickVidsBest US politics & elections Videos
The 187 US politics & elections videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 4 intermediate, 181 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a news piece. What they share is that what remains is the argument of that moment, not a permanent textbook. Channels you will keep seeing include CGP Grey, CNN, LastWeekTonight.
Alexander Nix: From Mad Men to Math Men | OMR Festival 2017 - Hamburg, Germany | #OMR17
Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix keynotes the OMR 2017 marketing festival on big data and personality-based targeting in political campaigns.
COVID-19: A Second Opinion
A 38-minute highlights video from a January 2022 Senate roundtable hosted by Ron Johnson, where doctors and experts offered dissenting views on pandemic response, early treatment and vaccine safety.
The Daily Show - Gun Control Whoop-de-doo (ft. John Oliver)
A Daily Show segment in which John Oliver examines the argument that gun control does not work, using Australia's experience after the Senate rejected the Manchin-Toomey amendment.
Sen. Cruz Grills Google Executive on Alleged Censorship Bias
A Senate hearing clip in which Sen.
Watch Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Corresponde...
CNN's clip of Stephen Colbert's 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner routine, in which he mocks President Bush and the press in character.
Julian Assange on Seth Rich
A short clip from the Dutch program Nieuwsuur in which Julian Assange appears to suggest that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source of the WikiLeaks DNC emails.
DECLINE of EMPIRES: The Signs of Decay
Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback and Sorrows of Empire, lectures on parallels between the decline of the Roman and Soviet empires and the United States.
DNI Clapper tells Wyden the NSA does not collect data on millions of Americans
Senator Ron Wyden asks DNI James Clapper in a March 2013 Senate hearing whether the NSA collects data on millions of Americans, and Clapper answers 'No, sir...
Thomas Sowell: affirmative action creates academic failure & resentment
An excerpt of a C-SPAN interview in which Thomas Sowell argues that preferential admission policies produce mismatch, dropouts and resentment.
Congressional Fundraising: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on how much of a member of Congress's job is now fundraising.
Putin's Revenge: Julia Ioffe (interview) | FRONTLINE
A full FRONTLINE interview with journalist Julia Ioffe on Putin and alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
Joe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump
A roughly three-hour Joe Rogan interview with Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign.
Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion
NYT Opinion video essay arguing that Democrat-controlled states like California, New York and Illinois often fall short of their egalitarian values.
Voting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A John Oliver Last Week Tonight segment on voting access in the US, covering how some states are making voting less equal.
Politics and Language | Noam Chomsky | Talks at Google
Noam Chomsky gives a Talks at Google lecture covering his work on politics and language.
Voting Machines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on US voting machines, covering how they work, their security weaknesses, and how elections could be made more secure.
Why was Biden's win calculated to be ONE IN A QUADRILLION?
Matt Parker of Stand-up Maths examines the Texas Supreme Court filing claiming Biden's 2020 win had a one-in-a-quadrillion chance.
The Newsroom - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore...(Restricted language)
The opening scene of HBO's The Newsroom, in which anchor Will McAvoy answers a student's question about why America is the greatest country.
Viral video raises worry over Sinclair's political messaging inside local news
A PBS NewsHour report on a viral compilation of local TV anchors reading identical scripts, which raised concerns about Sinclair Broadcasting mixing partisan opinion into local news.
Ami Horowitz: How white liberals really view black voters
A Fox News segment in which Ami Horowitz interviews people at UC Berkeley and in Harlem about whether voter ID laws are racist.
The Alt-Right Playbook: I Hate Mondays
An Innuendo Studios Alt-Right Playbook episode about a rhetorical tactic of dismissing partial fixes to problems.
WATCH: Elon Musk appears to give fascist salute during Trump inauguration celebration
A short PBS NewsHour clip of Elon Musk making a gesture at the post-inauguration celebration in January 2025, which many described as a fascist salute.
Harris On Vaccine: 'If Donald Trump Tells Us To Take It, I’m Not Taking It.' | NBC News
An NBC News clip from 2020 of Kamala Harris on whether she would take a Covid-19 vaccine.
Trump blasts Germany over gas pipeline deal with Russia
A CBS Evening News report from the 2018 NATO summit, where President Trump criticized Germany over its gas pipeline deal with Russia and pressed allies on defense spending.