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Showing videos filed under: Roosevelt
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.”Mike Papantonio, Ann Wright, and Learning from Roosevelt
June 7, 2010Oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, but something else has been gushing too lately: BP's public relations offensive. From controlling media access to the site, as Mac McClelland reported to us last week, to buying up search terms on the Web so that Google drives traffic to BP's own website, the oil company seems determined to burnish its image even as its oil continues to cover the coasts.The F Word: Learning from Roosevelt(s)
June 7, 2010The President has a Rooseveltian opportunity, columnist Frank Rich wrote this weekend. Teddy Roosevelt was on his mind: stand off against the Titans of Oil, Wall Street and mining, suggested Rich. The field is empty. But the fact is, Obama could don the mantle of two Roosevelts at once.Compromise, Capitulation and Capitalism
March 4, 2010Yesterday, we noted that the fangs seem to have been pulled out of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and financial reform seems to be quietly fading from the agenda. But our friends at the Roosevelt Institute are in the middle of a groundbreaking conference on market reform, and we asked a few of their guests to join us in studio.Financial Reform, Animal Factory, and Student Debt
March 3, 2010Yesterday, we noted that the fangs seem to have been pulled out of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and financial reform seems to be quietly fading from the agenda. But our friends at the Roosevelt Institute are in the middle of a groundbreaking conference on market reform, and we asked a few of their guests to join us in studio.David Sirota: Mandate ’08: Reagan vs. FDR
November 2, 2008So it has all come down to this. After two years and a quarter billion dollars worth of ads, the pulverizing election has become a steel-cage match pitting rivals against each other – and not Christians versus Muslims, Americans versus Foreigners or Whites versus Blacks.No, John McCain and Barack Obama have made the race’s final weeks an ideological proxy war between two presidential icons who still loom larger than them:Making a new New Deal
October 1, 2008Causing heads to spin, and markets around the world to drop, Congress defied the Beltway consensus and defeated the so-called bailout bill. What's clear in all this haze, is the failure of any kind of leadership -- Frtom the White House to the COgnress to teh Preisidential cmappaigns, no player ono this stage has so far been able to pull together enough of a majority for action.Ennis Carter: Art of the WPA
July 14, 2008An interview with Ennis Carter, founder and co-director of The Social Arts and author of the forthcoming book, Posters for the People: Art of the WPA on the social art of the New Deal. On the 75th anniversary of Roosevelt’s sweeping program, Flanders and Carter discuss the role of art in progressive politics.
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