Dec 30, 2012
TEASE: Challenges in the second term … the early years of Thurgood
Marshall … and the Republican states’ rights fetish.
Progressive icon Fred Harris talks about challenges facing the
second Obama Administration, including barriers to organized labor
… law professor Larry Gibson tells us about his
new...
Dec 23, 2012
This Christmas week -- Prospects for meaningful gun control … and
prospects for Middle East peace
The Newtown shootings have once again focused the nation on the
easy availability of guns. Today we talk with Ben Palumbo, an old
Washington hand who has worked with the Brady Campaign against gun
violence, and he...
Dec 16, 2012
The Rising American Electorate comes through for Obama, but will
they be there in two years? In four years?
The 2012 election is still being digested, and the aftertaste is
good for progressives. The Obama campaign got its messaging right
and its target voters right, but Democrats are going to have to
work just as...
Dec 9, 2012
A provocative take on untold stories of American history ,and
provocative ideas from the GOP on immigration and from progressives
on taxes and spending.
Did you know that Democratic “bosses” made FDR accept Harry Truman
as vice president? Did you know that Truman was “very anti-Semitic
and racist?” Did you...
Dec 2, 2012
Domestic and foreign policy outlooks in the second term, and a
backlash looms against the discredited ideology of
Reaganism.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle says no matter who is
selected as secretary of state, he doesn’t expect any radical
transformation of U.S. foreign policy.
Historian and author...