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.
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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.
Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now.Â
Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson still have not reckoned with the failures of neoliberal planning in the wake of the financial crisis.
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.
Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.
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