Lies of the land seeing Rural America for what it is and isnt is your book. The opening line in the book is the lies about Rural America is preposterous on its face. What you mean by that . Steven i mean that we use rural to describe vastly different parts of the country. There is no really good definition of it. Rural america turns out to be a remarkably diverse label to cover all kinds of different areas of the country. The greenbelt in the great plains, areas of northern maine, parts of appalachia which were once cold country, we are talking about vast parts of the American Southwest, they all get labeled rural but they are dramatically different in all kinds of ways. How do you define it for the purpose of your book . Steven i very studiously avoid trying to define it. [laughter] one of the things i found interesting when i jumped into the project was that lots of people have been trying to define the term for a long time and no one has come up with a real answer. I think at the en
Lies of the land seeing Rural America for what it is and isnt is your book. The opening line in the book is the lies about Rural America is preposterous on its face. What you mean by that . Steven i mean that we use rural to describe vastly different parts of the country. There is no really good definition of it. Rural america turns out to be a remarkably diverse label to cover all kinds of different areas of the country. The greenbelt in the great plains, areas of northern maine, parts of appalachia which were once cold country, we are talking about vast parts of the American Southwest, they all get labeled rural but they are dramatically different in all kinds of ways. How do you define it for the purpose of your book . Steven i very studiously avoid trying to define it. [laughter] one of the things i found interesting when i jumped into the project was that lots of people have been trying to define the term for a long time and no one has come up with a real answer. I think at the en
Lies of the land seeing Rural America for what it is and isnt is your book. The opening line in the book is the lies about Rural America is preposterous on its face. What you mean by that . Steven i mean that we use rural to describe vastly different parts of the country. There is no really good definition of it. Rural america turns out to be a remarkably diverse label to cover all kinds of different areas of the country. The greenbelt in the great plains, areas of northern maine, parts of appalachia which were once cold country, we are talking about vast parts of the American Southwest, they all get labeled rural but they are dramatically different in all kinds of ways. How do you define it for the purpose of your book . Steven i very studiously avoid trying to define it. [laughter] one of the things i found interesting when i jumped into the project was that lots of people have been trying to define the term for a long time and no one has come up with a real answer. I think at the en
Batali, and others. Vaughn, nobody knows arizona politics like you do here. Talk about why the president is going to be heading there this hour, spending some of his final sort of precious time in this western wild card state. Reporter good morning. If you look at polling, ever since joe biden became the apparent nominee, donald trump has been down in the latest poll released yesterday, again, joe biden with the three point advantage. And this is difficult for this president. He won in 2016 here by 3. 5 percentage points. What youre seeing in this county where his first rally is, thats 60 of the electorate. You could call it americas suburb. Hes saying deficits in polling numbers consistently among these suburban moderate, even some conservative voters here in the state. And that is why hes turned his attention to the rural part of the state. Look at the map there. His first stop just outside of phoenix, his second stop up in mojave county. He won this in 2016. I was talking about why
ExPrime Minister kevin rudd of australia, former deputy Prime Minister of israel and former secretary of the United Kingdom David Miliband. Also, why is america still so very polarized . Ezra klein wrote the book on it. He will explain what the election has taught him. First, heres my take. Joe bidens first speech as president elect demonstrated to the world that he may be the man for this moment. Decent, generous, and determined to reach out to his political opponents. But while many will celebrate this restoration of dignity and normalcy to american politics, let us bear in mind that the United States has gone through one of its most trying periods in history. One that is not done yet. The country was on the verge of becoming an illiberal democracy. I wrote about it 23 years ago when i saw countries in which elections were being held, popular participation was real, but where those leaders who had won would then try to use their power it attack the rule of law. Minority rights, freed