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Best of 2010: At the Tea Party & Ella Es El Matador
December 28, 2010Continuing our Best of 2010 series, we bring you an in-depth discussion of the Tea Party movement from October 15. This week's special feature delves into the who, the what and the why of the Tea Party. As the left grapples with the reality that tea partiers may be more than a passing trend, what should we know about who these people are who funds them? Is the left fighting against them or enabling them? And most importantly, what can be done to turn things around?At the Tea Party
October 16, 2010This week's special feature delves into the who, the what and the why of the Tea Party. As the left grapples with the reality that tea partiers may be more than a passing trend, what should we know about who these people are who funds them? Is the left fighting against them or enabling them? And most importantly, what can be done to turn things around? Laura's new book, At the Tea Party, is out on October 20 and tackles precisely the above.At The Tea Party and Ella Es El Matador
October 15, 2010Laura's new book tackles the who, what and why of the Tea Part movement. At the Tea Party: The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs, and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right and Why We Should Take It Seriously is out on October 20 - for now though, enjoy a discussion with 3 of the book's contributors, Rebecca Traister, Richard Kim and Rick Perlstein. Then, Ella Es El Matador explores the world of female bullfighters in this week's Got Docs.Rebecca Traister: Big Girls Don't Cry
October 7, 2010Rebecca Traister didn't start out as a Hillary Clinton supporter, but by the end of the 2008 election cycle she was so frustrated and angered by the relentless sexism aimed at Clinton that she wound up not just supporting her, but continuing to analyze the entire election cycle through the lens of gender.Baratunde Thurston, Rebecca Traister, and Anne Elizabeth Moore
October 6, 2010We keep hearing about the enthusiasm gap this election cycle--that Republicans, energized by the Tea Party, are ready to sweep into the polls and sweep out the Democratic majorities. Meanwhile the Obama administration seems perfectly willing to blame it all on their progressive critics--as if the economy wasn't actually bad, lefty bloggers are just making people think it's bad. Additionally, notes Baratunde Thurston, "Our politicians are assumed to be corrupt and not doing much to discourage that assumption."Rebecca Traister & Hendrik Hertzberg: Pain & Politics
July 16, 2010Every day, the story changes. Sarah Palin's the leader of the Republican party--except that she can't raise money. Eliot Spitzer is a disgrace (but has a TV show), and David Vitter can run for reelection on a "family values" platform. The NAACP wants the Tea Party movement to declare itself not racist, and suddenly the NAACP is racist. And we can't even get started on the BP disaster--mostly because BP won't let reporters near the scene of the crime.Jeff Biggers, Rebecca Traister & Hendrik Hertzberg, and Hoarders
July 15, 2010Yet another coal miner was killed on the job this week, and journalist and author Jeff Biggers says that the situation has reached crisis level--that it's a war on miners. He also notes that abuse of the land and abuse of the people who work on it has always gone hand in hand, so as pressure for mountaintop removal and new coal mines mounts, so do safety violations--the latest being a story broken by NPR, that a methane gas monitor at the Little Big Branch mine, where 29 workers died in an explosion in April, had been deliberately shut down.Week in Review: Sex, Lies and Sarah Palin
November 20, 2009Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare collects essays from around the progressive media analyzing the mysterious appeal of Sarah Palin. Richard Kim of the joins us along with contributors Rebecca Traister of Salon, Max Blumenthal, Daily Beast contributor and author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, and Shannyn Moore of Smart Radio in Alaska to talk about the books, the Right, and why Palin just won't go away.Sarah Palin: Sex, Lies & Book Deals
November 17, 2009Richard Kim, senior editor at The Nation and editor of Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare, joins us with contributors Rebecca Traister of Salon, Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, and Shannyn Moore of Smart Radio in Alaska to talk about the mysterious appeal of Sarah Palin.
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