Now on booktv Lawrence Samuel exam the past, current, and future state of the american middle class. The author reports that a strong middle class emerged following world war ii in the 1950s. And began to eroded in the succeeding decades. This is a little over an hour. Host im going jump in. I took a chronological approach to the story. As youll see. I went decade by decade. I picked up the story right after world war ii. I feel like thats when the middle class, as we know it, rose in numbers and power. Then go through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and up to today and wrap up. Thats basically the approach i took to the book just track with the book. Basically, why i wrote the book theres a lot of chatter these days about the middle class not surprising. Someone talking about the middle class a lot, of course, is president obama like most bases. Politicians. I counted twentd times he mentioned the middle class in his speech a couple of years ago and. And more recently in the 2012 state of the
The rescue. Bringing it. Its been more than thirty six Malaysian Airlines jet carrying two hundred and thirty nine people vanished in may their onward to beijing. A massive Multi National air and sea search has failed so far to find any confirmed wreckage from the plane would investigate investigators baffled as to what could have cost like three hundred and seventy two abruptly disappear when the automated call some of the focus has turned to two passengers on board traveling with stolen passports. At this stage theres no evidence of sabah times or terrorism but the Malaysian Air force as the plane may have to turn around before it disappeared from the radar he and the nice navy planes and twenty four hours searching to see in the gulf of thailand. And at one point reported citing objects that might be times of the missing play. Vox day is still no way to confirm the sighting. All the distance of august as aviation authorities lost contact with the boeing seven seventy seven and i kno
Prosecutors on sentencing recommendations for trump ally roger stone. It was a move that drew cheers from the president but increased worries his improper influence is undermining the rule of law, and apparently trumps critics werent the only ones worried. To have public statements and tweets made about the department, about our people in the department, our men and women here about cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job. I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me. Barrs push back there was unusual. Remember the last attorney general to defend the doj in the face of trumps attacks was Jeff Sessions who was sent to the doghouse and never let out. But there are questions now about whether barrs push back was sincere or all staged in coordination with the white house to quell a possible revolt within the doj. Four career federal prosecutors withdrew from the s
While the advances in genetic science were instrumental in overturning Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions, an examination of her 2003 trial highlights the danger of undermining the basic legal principle of the presumption of innocence.
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