How We Cover the Economy How We Cover the Economy
There's been plenty of coverage of the economic crisis over the last eight months. But are we missing the real story?
May 6, 2009 / GRITtv
Grading Obama Grading Obama
New Yorker editor and staff writer Hendrik Hertzberg, novelist Walter Mosley, Faye Wattleton and Miles Rappaport on Obama's first 100 days and the next 900.
Apr 29, 2009 / GRITtv
Can Nonprofits Weather the Financial Storm? Can Nonprofits Weather the Financial Storm?
The Nation's Eyal Press and others on the fate of nonprofits in a world of falling profits.
Apr 15, 2009 / GRITtv
Roundtable: Sex, Politics and the Media Roundtable: Sex, Politics and the Media
The Nation's Richard Kim joins several other journalists in a discussion of the politics of gender, sexual identity and power
Apr 13, 2009 / GRITtv
The Obama Budget: Fixing Foundations or Shifting Furniture? The Obama Budget: Fixing Foundations or Shifting Furniture?
While the Obamas were in Europe the House and Senate approved the president's $3 trillion budget. But the battle isn't over. What will be cut and what will remain?
Apr 8, 2009 / GRITtv
Rethinking Afghanistan: Is Obama’s Strategy a Dead End? Rethinking Afghanistan: Is Obama’s Strategy a Dead End?
Unified in their opposition to the war in Iraq, liberal and antiwar groups are finding little common ground when it comes to Obama's escalation in Afghanistan.
Apr 7, 2009 / GRITtv
Is Another Economic Order Possible? Is Another Economic Order Possible?
Dean Baker, Ann Lee and Greg Denier on the G-20 Summit, the labor movement, and the possibility of a new economic order.
Apr 1, 2009 / GRITtv
Popular Power Not Wall Street Power Popular Power Not Wall Street Power
Robert Johnson, former Chief Economist of the Senate Banking Committee, on why the Obama economic recovery plan is misguided.
Mar 30, 2009 / GRITtv
Breaking Down the Weekly Media Spin Breaking Down the Weekly Media Spin
The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, Robert George of the New York Post and Danny Schechter the news dissector look at the reporting of the past week.
Mar 27, 2009 / GRITtv
The Takeover: Who’s Running This Country? The Takeover: Who’s Running This Country?
Matt Taibbi, Jane Hamsher and Robert Johnson discuss what can be done to take that power back from the financial institutions that have wrecked the economy and our democracy.
Mar 25, 2009 / GRITtv