Worldview: April 6, 2016

Worldview: April 6, 2016

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With the release of the “Panama Papers,” we take a look at the true size and impact of the elite’s hidden economy with Jeffrey Winters founder and director of the Equality Development and Globalization Studies program at Northwestern University. In Iceland, many were already critical of Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, including an unlikely hip-hop group. We meet the Daughters of Reykjavik. Plus, historian John Schmidt tells about the day Admiral Robert Peary planted the American flag and claimed to be the first human to reach the North Pole.