LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama can follow the example of Bill Clinton, move to the center, and “triangulate” between Democrats and Republicans. Or Obama can follow the example of Harry Truman and become an effective partisan and a resolute progressive — That’s what ROBERT KUTTNER says – he’s founding co-editor [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Maybe you heard the news: yesterday President Obama signed the health care bill into law — the most sweeping social legislation enacted in decades and the true end of the Age of Reagan. We’ll have comment from HAROLD MEYERSON of the Washington Post op-ed page and [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ERIC FONER looks at the changes in the social studies curriculum approved by the Texas Board of Ed – and what the new standards tell us about conservatives’ vision of American history. Their favorite topics: the Confederacy, the military, and religion; topics they cut include slavery, [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The largest open pit mine in California is the the US Borax/Rio Tinto mine in Boron, where the company has locked out neary 600 members of the ILWU Local 30 after workers rejected demands that they surrender any union role in the labor process. MIKE DAVIS [...]
“It is hard not to be intimidated by New Left Review,” Stefan Collini wrote recently in the Guardian. He’s right: first there is the intellectual range and analytical power of the NLR writers, and now there’s the fact that it has been publishing for fifty years. The fiftieth anniversary issue–the 299th–reviews the magazine’s history, announces [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The fastest-growing, most dynamic capitalist country in the history of the world is the People’s Republic of China today. PETER HESSLER has lived in China for the last ten years as a staff writer for The New Yorker; he spent months in a development zone, hanging [...]