Barbara Ehrenreich says that the U.S. is being scarred by a deepening divide between the rich and poor. When she traveled throughout the U.S. to get a feel for how Americans are doing, she found that the last few years have been the worst in recent memory, and the wealth gap is growing wide every day. Her new book is This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation . Event : Barbara Ehrenreich will be speaking and signing books Wednesday, June 25 at 7 pm Barnes & Noble Union Square 33 East 17th Street
Slate's Dahlia Lithwick , Nation magazine columnist and Columbia law professor Patricia Williams and Katha Pollitt , Nation magazine columnist and author of Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories (Random House, 2007 talk about Hillary Clinton's Saturday speech and her campaign's impact on women and the feminist movement.
Only Barack Obama gets to decide who fills out his Presidential ticket -- but that won't stop the rest of us from chiming in. Would Hillary Clinton take the job, and is that the best route to party unity? If Bill Richardson helps Obama with Latino voters, could they build a winning coalition without working-class whites? Call us with your opinion and comment below!
The Democrats have met to discuss the fate of the Florida and Michigan delegates. Here to analyze the situation is Liz Halloran , senior writer with U.S. News and World Report , Lesley Clark , national correspondent for the Miami Herald , and Gordon Trowbridge , Washington reporter for the Detroit News .
Former U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee , a moderate Republican, reviews the first six years of the Bush presidency from an insider’s perspective. He says the Republican party needs to change dramatically if it is to survive and succeed. His new book is Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President .
Oregon holds its primary on May 20. Find out which issues matter most to voters in the Beaver State, how Senator Gordon Smith’s re-election campaign is going, and why the candidates in one House race are using personal attacks against each other. Also: why some are already saying that Oregon will be a battleground state in the fall campaign. David Steves is political reporter for The Register-Guard in Eugene, Ore. He works in the paper’s Salem bureau and also writes a blog . States of the Union fact of the week: Oregon is one of four major world hazelnut growing regions. It produces 95% of the domestic hazelnuts in the United States.