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The 2nd Presidential Debate: Obama and Romney Cut a Very Red Rug

The two Presidential candidates danced around in front of an audience this Tuesday last on an extremely red carpet at New York’s Hofstra University. In High Definition television that carpet really wasn’t too easy on the eyeballs, now, was it? Literally, they danced around, all but circling one another, walking…

Writer Eric Alterman tells Moyers liberals need to regain ‘fighting spirit’

Writer and historian Eric Alterman appeared on the April 20 edition of “Moyers and Company” to discuss his new book The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama. In a wide-ranging and thoughtful discussion, Alterman makes the case to Bill Moyers that while social liberalism…