Our ongoing series spotlighting magazines continues today with the recent edition of Washington Monthly online. Steven rose our guest wrote this piece miss placed no stat gentleman for the good old days, are largely based on myth. Mr. Rose, so explain the myth that its based on. Sure. Theres two ways to look at it. Number one is the kind of rosecolored glasses in which we look at the past. As they say, things are worse today than they were in the past. So a lot of people evoke the 50s and the 60s as a time when somebody did this and everything was fine. In 1960 the overall poverty rate was 22 . The elderly poverty rate was 35 . While women made half of what men did and blacks made half of what whites did. So it wasnt so good old days. The comparable figures today is the overall poverty rate is 14 to 15 , the elderly poverty rate is 11 , and men women make 75 of what men make and blacks make 75 of whites. So the whole notion of how bad it is today relative to how good it was in the past
About . Vote . The new yorkwith times front page this morning. It is the nra. The association has spent millions of dollars on Television Commercials for mr. Trump, even as other republican groups have kept their checkbooks closed. Mr. Trump has not run any ads of his own. Forceful gave a fo testimony at the convention. The nra this week released a new ad, againstlion Hillary Clinton. Take a look. [video clip] she is one of the wealthiest women in politics. 30 million income. Tours the world on private jets. Protected by armed guards for 30 years, but she does not believe in your right to keep a gun at your home for selfdefense. I fully appreciate how life is for so Many Americans today. She would leave you defenseless. The enemy Political Victory Fund is responsible for this advertising. Host the latest ad by the nra. They have spent 6 million in ads supporting donald trump. We want to know how important is gun policy to your vote this november . Good morning. Welcome to the conversat
Violence. We must continue to work the work of nonviolence and demand an end to senseless killing everywhere. And the resolution for congress to impeach irs commissioner john koskainen. House 828 impeaching John Andrew Koskinen for high crimes and misdemeanors. Well review the expected congressional debate with susan ferrechio, correspondent for the washington examiner. Join us thursday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan for congress this fall. He lists the public publication of male and female sexuality, the creation of playboy as factors that promote the stirrings of a revolt against prevailing cultural norms where, this class is a little under an hour. Good afternoon. Weve been talking about the cold war and the relationship between the cold war and its global dimension of fighting communism and its domestic dimension of promoting certain outlooks and certain values that were seen as indispensable to americas fight against communism in the world. As weve discussed already, the cold war
He was listed as an alternate but came back to finish as runner up to this years mavericks competition. We are live with him this morning. And we are talking to the ceo of the Super Bowl Host Committee to wrap up the final numbers of the big event. Plus its one of the most recognized parts of any Chinese New Years celebration. We go behind the scenes to see what it takes to bring the lion dance to life. Hello, tuesday morning. Nothing like a song thats 41 years old and still bringing it. It was indeed a slow ride there on the east shore this beautiful morning. All good now, though. Feeling good this tuesday morning. Welcome to the 9. That was playing when i was, you know, coming into the world maybe. Feels like a monday, traffic looking like a monday, a lot of people off. Yesterday was great. Were going to talk to the super bowl ceo in a minute but now that super bowl closers are out, people are driving more. Going back to the commute in San Francisco. People were taking ferries and ba