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Bryce Covert

Bryce Covert

Originally broadcast June 7, 2013. We discuss factory conditions in Bangladesh, austerity in Europe and how the weakest Americans are doing three months after we fell off the fiscal cliff with Bryce Covert. Also new music from Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys. Bryce Covert is the Economic Policy Editor for ThinkProgress. She was previously editor of the Roosevelt Institute’s Next New Deal blog and a senior communications officer. She is also a contributor for The Nation and was previously a contributor for ForbesWoman. Her writing has appeared on The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Nation, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, and others. She is also a board member of WAM!NYC, the New York Chapter of Women, Action & the Media.

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Perpetual War

perpetual war

On Thursday President Obama delivered a major address on national security. He touched on Drones, Gitmo, Civil Liberties and Perpetual War. We discuss this and much more with Ben Armbruster who is National Security Editor for ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. If national security issues like Gitmo and Benghazi seem confusing we promise after today’s show you will understand everything you need to know. Also Paul Dooley, Jeremy S. Kramer, Mike McShane, and Hal Lublin. And new music from Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys.

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