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Obama’s Hundred Days: maybe you heard: he’s got wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a deep recession, rising unemployment, a failed auto industry and escalating problems in health care, education, and energy. HAROLD MEYERSON will comment — he’s editor at large of The American Prospect and [...]
The L.A. Times Festival of Books at UCLA is back this weekend — it’s always a great event, and this year more than 100,000 people are expected. I’ll be moderating a panel Sunday at 11am in Haines Hall 39 on “CLIMATE IN CRISIS” featuring
–Stephan Faris, author of FORECAST: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the [...]
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For our Festival of Books preview show, we’ll feature LATimes columnist STEVE LOPEZ – the film of his book “THE SOLOIST” opens Friday in LA, it’s the story of a homeless violin player on skid row and the newspaper columnist who becomes friends with him – [...]
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“I would like to give young people solid intellectual, historical support for saying ‘screw you’” – that’s what ANDREI CODRESCU says, he’s the poet and NPR commentator from New Orleans. In pursuit of that goal, he has come up with “impractical guide to practical [...]
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HAROLD MEYERSON reports that the presidents of the two labor federations and of the nation’s 12 largest unions — including the National Education Association, which heretofore has not belonged to any labor federation – yesterday announced the formation of the National Labor Coordinating Committee, an interim [...]
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Legendary investigative reporter SEYMOUR HERSH says Obama’s best chance for restarting the Mideast peace process is mediating talks between Israel and Syria. Syria’s president Bashar Assad told Hersh that despite Israel’s war on Gaza, he is very interested in closing a deal on the Golan Heights. [...]