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KPFK Wed. 11/26: Obama’s Team of Rubins

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Obama’s economic advisors are not a “team of rivals” — they’re a team of Rubins, the same people who brought us the 1999 Clinton deregulation that produced the financial collapse.   ROBERT KUTTNER will comment – he’s co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and author [...]

KPFK Wed. 11/19: Obama’s New Deal

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Obama is appointing lots of Clintonians–does that means he will NOT bring us the change we need?  HAROLD MEYERSON will explain — he is op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and editor at large of The American Prospect magazine. (New Yorker illustration: Richard Thompson)
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KFPK Wed. 11/12: Obama’s Tasks

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JEFFREY TOOBIN talks about Obama’s tasks – and the next Supreme Court.  Jeff’s best-selling book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court is out now in paperback. He’s a staff writer for The New Yorker covering legal affairs and a CNN senior analyist.
Also: The [...]

KPFK Wed. 11/5: Obama’s Victory – and Ours

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How we did it: HAROLD MEYERSON analyzes the campaigns, and the results.  Harold is editor at large of The American Prospect and writes for the op-ed page of the Washington Post.
Also: Obama and History: ERIC FONER comments on the significance of America electing a black man [...]