Robert Tsai explains how legal ideas that aren’t necessarily about equality at all — ensuring fair play, acting reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech — have been used to overcome inequality in the past and can serve as potent alternative tools to promote equality today.
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It was the Supreme Court session Democrats feared and Republicans had waited a generation for – a solidly conservative 5-4 majority. So how’d it go?
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How is today’s polarized, disrupted world one in which Russia can thrive? That’s what Angela Stent explains through history and analysis in her remarkable new book, “Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest.”
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With 20 candidates and 2 Democratic debates spread over 48 hours this week, the 2020 Presidential campaign season is officially underway. We know the process:
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Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz sounds the alarm and presents a new economic vision in “People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent.” Stiglitz has written a definitive economic (and political) blue print for these times.
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Northwestern Professor Kirabo Jackson explains the economics of education investment. The key? Start with early learning and continue.
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Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined me to discuss her new bill that aims to protect patients from the outrageous bills that suddenly land folks deep in medical debt.
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Michael Lewis joins me for a conversation about his excellent new book, The Fifth Risk, revealing truths that might seem funny if they weren’t so scary.
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Rebecca Traister, author of a must-read new book Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger joined me for a discussion on how the role
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Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership in Turbulent Times, joined me to discuss presidential leadership in the age of Donald Trump. Subscribe via iTunes or
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With the Senate confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh as the backdrop, David Kaplan, author of the new book, The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme
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Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner, authors of The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence, join me for a discussion of the man who’s a
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