A few days ago brazil the worst a country in the region has over 5000000 people infected with the coronavirus 157000 people there have died. Across the world theres been Something Like 42000000 people infected 10000000 of those are in latin america so its got around about a quarter of all the cases in the world and the number of deaths approaching the 400000 marks a grim picture right across the region very few bright spots to be had anywhere the numbers only seem to be going up every everywhere you look a year or so ago the world bank predicted that the whole region economies in the region would grow by 1. 8 percent theyve now revised that talking about a 7. 2 percent drop across the region and were already seeing the consequences of businesses closing tens of thousands of people losing their jobs and many many people moving having to move out onto the streets. U. S. President donald trump has cast an early ballot near his private resort in florida he went to a polling station in West
Candidate, eugene debs. This is a class at columbia university, of course i called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict and the gilded age, the populist movement, and now we are sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, a lot of labor unrest, Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the four. Municipal reform, many other things, but today our subject is, the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in new early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on the various kinds of socialism at the time. From 1860 onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States, but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particu
This agreement and if that happens then we will begin the steps towards normalization. If you have some of the u. S. Ambassador after President Trump suggested that egypt might blow up ethiopias grand really. The projects been a source of tension since construction began in 2011 if the o. P. s sudan and egypt a failed to reach an agreement after nearly a decade of negotiations hammad vaal has more i want to just congratulate words of pride after brokering going to agree ment to between sudan and israel to normalize ties but president Donald Trumps next remarks suggested a new conflict in the media africa region its a very dangerous situation because egypt is not going to be able to live that way and theyll end up blowing up to them and i said and they said loud and clear dont blow up that dam and they have to do something because they could have stopped it they should or started long before we started i said how do you let it get built and then you say. Trump preceded those words with
Will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things. But today our subject is the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. We told him we were in the Suffrage Movement and the various times of socialism at that time. From 1860 at least onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States, but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particularly germans, english. The emergence of a mass social movement with a real base in the american political system followed and defeat of the populist party in the 1890s. The inheritors of 19th century radicalism were forced to kind of think about new ways confronting the problems and the inequities of the rapidly changing Industrial Society of that time. Socialism was typically untheoretical. Unlike european or ot
Sometimes inflammatory, he has won the support of mainstream republican policymakers and voters alike, so what are we to make of this presidency . Have President Trumps policies been successful . If so, to what degree does populism deserve the credit . What should politicians learn of this recent rise of populism on the left and right . We will be discussing the issue with our guests, a professor of economics at university of chicago who served as chief economist for the council of economic advisors in the Trump Administration from september 2018 to august 2019. His most recent book released just last month is youre hired untold successes and failures of a populist president. And the director of Economic Policy studies here at aei, the author of the American Dream is not dead but populism could kill it, released in february of this year. To start off, casey will speak for about 10 minutes, and then mike will offer a 10minute response. After that, we will have a Panel Discussion for a w