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President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed the nation regarding civil disorder in Detroit and his decision to dispatch federal troops to the city.

Detroit historian and educator Jamon Jordan was interviewed near the spot where riots erupted on July 23, 1967. Mr. Jordan described the causes and events of the uprising, which led to 43…

Zeynep Tufekci talked about her book Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, in which she examines the trajectories of modern protests. Ms. Tufekci is one of the…

Witnesses testified at a hearing on the deployment of FirstNet, a national public safety network for first responders. Among the witnesses testifying were FirstNet CEO Michael Poth, AT&T…

Stephen Goss testified at a hearing on the status and solvency of the Social Security Trust Fund. Topics included potential solutions for staving off the funds' depletion.

Brock Long spoke at the annual National Governors Association meeting. He talked about about disaster preparedness. Michael Berkowitz, president of an organization that focuses on comprehensive…

Lisa Napoli talked about her book Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away, a biography of Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald’s franchise, and…

Lawrence Samuel talked about American views of aging over the last 50 years, including a cultural shift in the 1960s away from revering elders towards embracing the youth culture. He is the…

Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) talked about his book The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance, in which he looks at how to engage…

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Wells Fargo v. Miami, which was consolidated with Bank of America v. Miami. The cases concern whether the city of Miami can sue the banks under the Fair Housing Act…

Current and former state and federal health care officials testified at a hearing on extending funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which was set to expire at the end…

David Callahan talked about his book, The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. This event was part of the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest, held annually in the…

The Senate Banking Committee held a confirmation hearing on President Trump’s nominees to be the next Housing and Urban Development deputy secretary, Pamela Hughes Patenaude, and the chair…

The American Enterprise Institute’s Aparna Mathur and the Brooking Institution’s Isabel Sawhill talked about paid family leave proposals.

Historian Barbara Shubinski talked about about how the Rockefeller’s philanthropic mission started as well as what the foundation does today. Ms. Shubinski was interviewed at the…

Panelists talked about the impact of government policies and regulations on poverty. This portion of the event included keynote remarks by Professor Donald Boudreaux and former Trump…

Journalists talked about the 1967 riots in cities across the country, the Kerner report, and how those events affected the practice of journalism. In 1967, African Americans rioted in…

Invisible was the first-price high school east division winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Matthew Gannon, a junior at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., produced the video.…

Sprouting in the Fields was one of the second-prize high school east division winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Amanda Rutledge, Amy Krimm, and Kiran Kochar McCabe, sophomores at…

Katherine Mangu-Ward talked about a piece in the July 2017 issue of Reason on the idea of the “universal basic income” and what that could mean for U.S. employment.