And the struggling videogame retailer is caught up in a battle between the small time investors trying to save the firm and wall street giants betting on its collapse. Kevin owen is in the studio next hour with the latest news coming up now cross talk analyzes the evolution of the political left and whether it is still represent or can you. Welcome the things are considered. What does the left stand for today not look at the list of working people and Civil Liberties now and. Heres a prioritize i didnt carry in politics over class issues we hear the word equity a lot but not equality and is there a place for merit in our politics anymore. To discuss these issues im joined by my guest Sharon Wright austin in gainesville shes a professor of Political Science at the university of florida and monterey we have spencer he is author of patriots of 2 nations as well as former Communications Advisor for obama for america and in paris we have John Laughlin he is a University Lecturer in history
A good part of the Civil Rights Movement as well with the left how do you define the left today because as i said in my introduction its moved very far away from that go ahead. Well the traditional definition of course is that the left is in favor of progress the right seems in favor of reaction no conservation and more generally i think the left is in favor of universal values wheres the right is more interested in particular values but theres no doubt that what you say in your introduction is absolutely right the left has changed a lot previous nate used to be interested in much more concrete things like. You know incomes and faction conditions and Living Conditions and health and things like that and one gets the impression in fact its more than impression im absolutely convinced that the left is instead now transmogrified into something completely different it has been completely consumed now certainly in europe and in north america by its highly metropolitan very fashionable inter
A great collection of stories that reveal america. This is the first guy that ive had on stage with a phd in physics. He used a phd in physics to go into finance and when he had this job in finance, he started going for walks during the day i will abridge the story because it is in the book. Walks got longer and longer and he ended up at hunts point which isnt terribly close to the district. He was exposed to what he called the back row of america. Drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes. P it convinced him he needed to figure out what was going on in his back row across the country so from lewiston maine to bakersfield california, he traveled the country, talked to people and again he wasnt doing the same sort of going around the country trip that a lot of people do, he was visiting the back row, drug addicts, dealers, prostitutes, homeless, formerly homeless, veterans, people who hated the immigrants and all that, but then recently if you follow twitter you will know that he has visi
They discussed numerous amendments to the legislation, dismissing a majority of the 100plus amendments. This is three hours and 40 minutes. This polling is any indication, that sentiment is not only thought in my district, according to the pew study, an astounding 75 of americans have little or no confidence in and elected officials to act in the best interest of the public. This democratic majority was elected to clean up politics and we are keeping our word. Safeguarding democracy is on top priority. That. Why the does just nation that is what the legislation was given the number h. R. 1. It will strengthen and secure our elections, including tearing down the roadblocks put in place purely to prevent some eligible americans from casting their legal ballot. It will strengthen ethics laws across all three branches of government. Donald trump talked about draining the swamp but unfortunately, he created assessed will. When we talk about clinic. T she created a cesspool he talked about d
A second time best to play younger more diverse and more liberal legislators who want reforms in health care the economy and immigration illegal palosi also has to temper colleagues desire to investigate and perhaps impeach President Donald Trump but first ending the federal Government Shutdown democrats will be offering the Senate Republican appropriations legislation to reopen government later today. We were doing so. They do so to meet the needs of the American People to protect our borders and to respect our workers that first move likely is going nowhere the Senate Majority leader explains why the senate will lock up any proposal that does not have a real chance of passing the scheiber and getting a president ial signature in other words president dont trump says he will reject any short term budget that doesnt include five billion dollars to build a wall between mexico and the u. S. Something democrats oppose earlier on thursday trump blamed the democrats for the impasse quote th