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Heather Boushey: Fiscal Policy Not Just Numbers on the Page
April 14, 2011
"We need to go back to the day where we actually do ask everyone to pay their fair share--and that includes the wealthiest among us," says Heather Boushey, Senior Economist for the Center for American Progress. She joins us today to unpack President Obama's April 13 address on fiscal policy and deficit reduction.
Heather Boushey, Deborah Small, and Cutting the Future
April 13, 2011
"We need to go back to the day where we actually do ask everyone to pay their fair share--and that includes the wealthiest among us," says Heather Boushey, Senior Economist for the Center for American Progress. She joins us today to unpack President Obama's April 13 address on fiscal policy and deficit reduction.
Ari Berman & Karen Finney: Missing the Message
November 30, 2010
Democrats were trying to get the focus back on the parts of their agenda that could actually get through the lame duck Senate this week--that is, until the latest WikiLeaks documents got out. Now once again, the media's focus has shifted, but that doesn't make the economic situation any less dire.
Ann Wright, Ari Berman & Karen Finney, and Dave Zirin
November 29, 2010
"We were told as diplomats, 'Don't ever put anything in a cable you wouldn't want on the front page of a newspaper.' It shows that they're a lot of arrogant people, that the system itself wasn't checking itself," says Ann Wright, Retired United States Army Colonel and former State Department official, of the latest documents released from WikiLeaks. Meanwhile, several of the diplomatic cables released depict possibly illegal actions by the U.S. government, and Wright notes that the chances of anyone being held accountable are slim.
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fighting the Class War
September 8, 2010
"Class war is when you have corporations sitting on $8 billion," says Katrina vanden Heuvel of complaints from the Right, personified by John McCain's opposition to overturning the Bush tax cuts. Until the economy is back to working for everyone, until our infrastructure is no longer crumbling, it's not time to talk about tax breaks for the rich.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Green Jobs, and Human Rights in the U.S.
September 7, 2010
"Class war is when you have corporations sitting on $8 billion," says Katrina vanden Heuvel of complaints from the Right, personified by John McCain's opposition to overturning the Bush tax cuts. Until the economy is back to working for everyone, until our infrastructure is no longer crumbling, it's not time to talk about tax breaks for the rich.
Ed Ott: Good Jobs are Safe Jobs
April 7, 2010
The coal mine in West Virginia where an explosion killed 25 workers on Monday and left four missing "had amassed scores of citations from mining safety officials," according to ABC News. Amidst all the talk of jobs and unemployment, Ed Ott notes, we've lost focus on the "good" and "safe" jobs part of the equation, let alone "well-paid."
Safe Jobs, Anne Elizabeth Moore, and the Wikileaks Tape
April 6, 2010
The coal mine in West Virginia where an explosion killed 25 workers on Monday and left four missing "had amassed scores of citations from mining safety officials," according to ABC News. Amidst all the talk of jobs and unemployment, Ed Ott notes, we've lost focus on the "good" and "safe" jobs part of the equation, let alone "well-paid."
Rethinking the American Dream
November 19, 2008
Greg Denier, Communications Director for Change to Win, says that the American dream is a progressive vision and that on November 4, working people voted for a fundamental shift in the relationship of government and society. For the last two years Change to Win has been conducting a survey on the meaning of the American dream.
Wallace Shawn: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
July 2, 2008
There is no justification for inequality. That is a thought that playwright and actor Wallace Shawn says could poison your life. It has poisoned the lives of some of the characters in Shawn’s plays including The Fever, which recently received a staged reading in New York at Revolution Books. In this interview Shawn discusses his work, the perverse pleasure of power, and the subject of a recent speech he gave at

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