Politics Highlights

For days, Occupy LA had been told to evacuate its camp outside Los Angeles City Hall by 12:01 a.m. on Monday, November 28. Throughout Thanksgiving weekend, the deadline approached and tension increased. When the police-led evacuation didn't happen, the movement moved into the streets where they were met by members of the Los Angeles Police Department armed with batons, helmets, and other riot gear. Reason.tv spoke with Occupiers and fans of the movement from inside the encampment at City Hall.

Richard North Patterson talks about his thriller Eclipse. This is the spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murder.Patterson's many acclaimed books include Balance of Power and Exile. In this segment Patterson talks about the miscalculations and errors that have brought to the current situation in Gaza and the Middle East.

Remy mourns the impending loss of his beloved incandescent light bulbs with a song set to familiar music. Written and performed by Remy and produced by Meredith Bragg.

Sandra Day O'Connor, visiting Seattle, argues for scrapping the state's judicial elections, making judges appointed.

Tony Abbott gives a talk on how he feels about legalizing euthanasia and how he feels it is a dangerous thing as it will be abused by relatives and family member4s that don't want the burden of looking after complex cases.

They're banning pet pigs in St, Charles, Missouri and Nice Cream in Illinois. But starting September 1 , more than 500 Michigan restaurant and bar owners will begin turning state lawmakers away from their establishments. State Senator So-and-so wants a brew? Too bad. Politicians won’t be served until they revisit the state’s 2010 smoking ban, which, owners say, has devastated business, and left bars like Sporty O’Tooles on the verge of collapse.

According to a British intelligence report leaked to the press in 2007, al-Qaida operatives are planning a large-scale attack "on par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki."How likely is it that terrorists will develop the capability of such an attack?Jenkins is one of the world's most renowned terrorism experts. He will discuss the realities of a nuclear threat - the motivations, the means and what it means.

At July's FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie sat down with Bob Bowdon, director of the explosive school-choice film The Cartel. Bowdon's new venture is Choicemedia.tv, an investigative video website dedicated to education reform the way ESPN is dedicated to sports.

Award-winning journalist and documentary videographer Max Blumenthal has become one of the most important journalists writing about how the Religious Right fringe movement became the Republican Party mainstream. In this video, he argues that the radical right hates children.

One of the features of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health-care reform bill colloquially known as Obamacare, is the creation of insurance exchanges that will offer heavily subsidized policies and coverage for people who cannot get insurance through their employers. Glenn Morton about how insurance brokers help businesses find affordable health care insurance.

At Freedom Fest 2011, Reason's Matt Welch spoke with Fox News Juan Williams about his passion for school choice reform, which Williams describes as the "civil rights issue of our time". Williams says he first came to the issue of education reform in the 1990s, when he was astonished by the level of dropout rates in inner-city schools, which disproportionately affects low-income and minority students.

Linguistic Professor Geoffrey Nunberg takes a closer look at our nation's political and social discourse over the past several years, revealing what it says about us. In this video, Professor Nunberg talks about using the term 'torture'.