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Dean Baker, the DREAM Act, and Newsweek
May 10, 2010
The big economic news this morning was that 16 countries that use the euro and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to create a nearly $1 trillion rescue fund to support the euro and keep the problems in Greece from spreading. Here in the U.S., the Dow might be climbing, but people are still struggling to find employment and recovery, Dean Baker reminds us, is still a long way off. Meanwhile, the people who created the crisis are trying to use the deficits they caused to force cuts in social spending--here and around the world.
The F Word: Newsweek and New Media
May 10, 2010
It was in 1933 that Newsweek magazine got its start pitted against Henry Luce's Time --and its virulent anti-New Deal politics. This week Newsweek's owner, The Washington Post Company, put it on the block, its ink turned to red and its fiscal outlook poor.
Economic Recovery For All or a Few?
April 27, 2010
Daniel Gross in Newsweek recently declared that all the doom and gloom about the economy was just exaggeration. But is that really the case? Or is the economy still failing far too many people? David DeGraw, author of The Economic Elite vs. The People of the United States of America, says that the story of recovery is just a bit premature. Both men join Laura in studio to debate the state of the economy.
Rinku Sen, Economic Recovery, and New York's Doormen
April 26, 2010
Last Friday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the country's most repressive immigration bill, SB 1070, which criminalizes undocumented immigrants and gives police the authority to demand papers from anyone they suspect of being undocumented. Though Brewer, a Republican who took over from Janet Napolitano when she left to become Obama's Homeland Security secretary, claims that there are protections in the bill to prevent racial profiling, it's hard to imagine a way that officers will decide from whom to demand papers that won't involve the color of their skin or the language that they speak.
The Week in News With Lizz Winstead and Danny Schechter
April 16, 2010
Is the economy coming back--or is our debt going to sink us? Are people who don't pay taxes this year just freeloading? Did Virginia's governor really forget that slavery was a big part of the Civil war? Who's fact-checking the news, and what about that WikiLeaks tape, anyway?
Eesha Pandit, The Week In News, and the Tea Party
April 15, 2010
In the wake of health care reform, new attempts to restrict women's access to abortion services have surged. Nebraska has passed a new law that criminalizes abortions after 20 weeks of gestation on the basis of "fetal pain," and another that forces women to undergo mental health examination before obtaining an abortion at all.
Moby & Miyun Park, Immigrant Nation & Ariel Dougherty
April 9, 2010
In Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat), committed vegan and multi-platinum recording artist Moby and Miyun Park of the Global Animal Partnership pull together a book for nonvegans on meat-eating.
Ariel Dougherty: Stand on My Shoulders
April 9, 2010
Have you read the Newsweek article, “Are We There Yet?”? It is a milestone. It explores the 40th anniversary of 46 women at Newsweek who filed a sex discrimination case with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. What the article uncovers is that room still exists for improvement despite the progress from the 1970 action. Acknowledging that women's rights are far from won is a major admission within mainstream media. It usually bends over backwards to declare feminism dead.
Sensationalism, CNN and Sarah Palin
April 1, 2010
GRITtv's media panel returns! This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Karen Hunter and Newsweek's Karen Fragala Smith join us once again to break down the good, bad, and ugly in this week's media--in this case, CNN's Haiti coverage and failing ratings, Sarah Palin's possible TV stardom, and Karl Rove's inability to handle anyone's disagreement with him.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, the Media, and Green Jobs
March 31, 2010
This Monday, suicide bombings rocked two stations in the Moscow Metro, killing 39 people. This is only the latest in a series of attacks on Russian civilians, stemming from the conflict over the Russian occupation of Chechnya.

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