Retro Report on PBS

May The Space Force Be With You | Andy Borowitz

Episode 6 | 4m 37s Video has closed captioning.

From Reagan’s Star Wars to Trump’s Space Force, New Yorker magazine humorist Andy Borowitz examines why politicians who have no patience for science can’t resist spending billions on science fiction.

Aired: 10/22/19

Expires: 10/06/26

Rating: TV-14

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Correcting the Myth of the Superpredator

Flawed research predicting remorseless teen killers led to life sentences.

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H.I.V. rates have fallen in many places, but the AIDS crisis persists in parts of the U.S.

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Today's immigration policies echo an anti-immigration movement 25 years ago in California.

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Her complaint sounded frivolous. But the facts told another story.

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