‘Left, Right & Center’: Eric Holder Meets the Press
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists eye Attorney General Eric Holder's off-the-record meeting regarding possible changes at the DOJ, a Pew study showing 40 percent of households have mothers as breadwinners, the state of Medicare and more.
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists eye Attorney General Eric Holder’s off-the-record meeting regarding possible changes at the DOJ.
The IRS targeting of conservatives is just a symbol of too much government power, says National Review editor Rich Lowry, who joins the show on the right. In a tremendous societal shift, a Pew study shows 40 percent of households have mothers as breadwinners. The state of Medicare is looking up. It will be fully funded until 2026. Marines in Afghanistan are losing late-night hot meals. Russian economist Sergei Guriev flees Russia, saying he no longer feels safe there. Lawrence Lessig pushes for small dollar funding of politics.
Scheer, Lowry and host Matt Miller are joined by Thomson Reuters’ Chrystia Freeland in the center.
— Adapted from KCRW by Alexander Reed Kelly.
KCRW:
WAIT BEFORE YOU GO...This year, the ground feels uncertain — facts are buried and those in power are working to keep them hidden. Now more than ever, independent journalism must go beneath the surface.
At Truthdig, we don’t just report what's happening — we investigate how and why. We follow the threads others leave behind and uncover the forces shaping our future.
Your tax-deductible donation fuels journalism that asks harder questions and digs where others won’t.
Don’t settle for surface-level coverage.
Unearth what matters. Help dig deeper.
Donate now.
The U.S. cannot violate its international agreements, only withdraw from them. That's our political press' story, and it's sticking to it.
No matter how egregious the remarks or transparent the speaker's motivations, the press cannot bring itself to call out racism by its name.
The wire service conveniently omits that Trump's pick for attorney general pardoned six officials for their role in the Iran-Contra affair.
An exclusive new report finds the multinational is storing your location data—even when you explicitly tell it not to.
Police block off streets and mobilize hundreds of officers one year after white supremacist violence roiled the Virginia city. Some activists fear the heavy police presence could be counterproductive.
Just because Donald Trump is using the recent chemical attack as an excuse to bomb Syria does not mean the attack didn't happen. We need to acknowledge the reality of Syrian suffering at the hands of Assad, Putin and the U.S.
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.