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Showing videos filed under: david leonhardt
Inside BP Cleanup, Andrew Bacevich, and Valuing Teachers
August 3, 2010"Anything BP does and doesn't do is to preserve their profits and their future ability to operate in the United States, no more, no less." That's according to "Martha," a hazardous waste worker in the Gulf, who joins us via Skype anonymously to report on the conditions workers are facing cleaning up BP's mess.The F Word: What Are Teachers Worth?
August 3, 2010What are teachers really worth? That's the question, as the Senate puts off a vote on $10 billion for state and local governments to prevent teacher layoffs. Senate leadership wanted the bill to be deficit neutral—a line never applied to war funding, where no spending's too great because we're killing for peace. Estimates are that it costs $1 million per soldier per year to keep troops in Afghanistan. But enough of that.David Corn, Social Media, and the New Depression
June 30, 2010What’s in a constitutional interpretation? As Thomas Jefferson once wrote to James Madison, “the principle is that the earth belongs to the living, and not the dead.” Over the centuries, many Supreme Court Justices have either upheld or lost track of this, on one hand interpreting the Constitution towards a more perfect union, on the other passively, calling the “balls and strikes” in accordance with the extant Constitution.The F Word: Dangerous Experiment for Deficit Hawks
June 30, 2010Top economics writers are sending some scary signals this week. Just as June unemployment numbers are due, Paul Krugman's declaring that we could be headed for a third Depression, and David Leonhardt, also writing in the New York Times quotes source after source saying “The world’s rich countries are now conducting a dangerous experiment.”Bruce Gagnon, John Bonifaz, and Education Inequality
April 14, 2010Barack Obama and 47 world leaders have agreed lower the amount of nuclear weapons on hand, and work in common to lower the threat of nuclear attack. Cause for celebration? Not quite yet, says Bruce Gagnon of Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.The F Word: Tax Grousing Tells Half The Story
April 14, 2010These days, there's a whole movement dedicated to grumbling about taxes full time -- I'm talking, of course, about the Right's latest incarnation -- tea partiers, who are gearing up for another round of protests.
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