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Reed Hundt

Reed Hundt was Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 until 1997. He is now CEO of Making Every Vote Count and author of A Crisis Wasted: Barack Obama's Defining Decisions.

Articles

Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now. 

Reed Hundt, Joshua Cohen
Donald Trump's winning strategy.
Reed Hundt, Joshua Cohen
We must institute a method of electing a president that is sensitive to the votes of Americans everywhere.
Reed Hundt

Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson still have not reckoned with the failures of neoliberal planning in the wake of the financial crisis.

Reed Hundt

In their new book, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson describe fighting the fire of the 2008 financial crisis. But while they did rebuild the burnt towers of Wall Street, they left Main Street to dig out from the rubble.

Reed Hundt
At last, a unanimous Supreme Court decision in which the Justices agree with... me.
Reed Hundt

Forums

Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.

Reed Hundt

Forum Responses

Robert Pollin is absolutely right that we must shift away from fossil fuels—the time is now. He is right, too, to note that “painful tradeoffs” are avoidable. Neither jobs nor the economy...
Reed Hundt
The responses to my essay, all interesting and articulate, divide into two groups. A pair (Richard Stallman and Marvin Ammori and Adam Kern) disagrees strongly with my factual assertions and arguments. The...
Reed Hundt

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