Episode

7/28 Jennifer Mittelstadt: Who The New Deal Left Behind

July 28, 2015

Jennifer Mittelstadt a historian at Rutgers University takes a deep dive with Sam into the problematic legacy of the New Deal and explains the political compromises that excluded women and minorities from many of the benefits of the New Deal, the evolution of the Corporate welfare state and what would a “New New Deal” look like.

On The Fun Half: Sam shares his babysitter nightmare. You can organize your own Bernie Sanders event for July 29th here! Mike Huckabee’s compares President Obama to Hitler and that his Iran deal “will march Israelis to the doors of the oven”. Daniel Kurtzer, who served as U.S. ambassador to Israel for four years under President George W. Bush, says that Mike Huckabee is engaging to incitement similar to what led to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and also your calls and IMs.

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