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All right. I think well get started. Good afternoon. Thank you all for coming. Thanks for cspan for coming. My name is mark schmitt. Im the director of the Political Reform Program here at new america and all i want to do is welcome you to this discussion on race and solidarity in the United States and the future of solidarity as a way of thinking about thinking about race. This discussion was organized by ted johnson who has been a fellow in our National Fellows program and also a fellow in the...

Doctor rachel who is a neuroscientist, a leading world expert on the Psychological Sciences and someone who i am very lucky to have as a colleague and friend and in addition to numerous awards and grants for Research Record accumulated over nearly the last 30 years since more than 80 original research articles, multiple scholarly books and several academic and Popular Science books including the college textbook, hello students, in its fifth edition and the sense of desire and that is disgusting...

Good afternoon, everyone. Joining uso much for for the American Civil War symposium. Ordinary people, extraordinary times. T up on our roster where she received the 2016 great teacher award. She taught previously at the state of at the university of new york in the state of albany. She received her phd studying under dr. And dr. Gallagher. Dr. Taylor is a member of the board of editors of the journal of southern history and advisor editor for the civil war monitor magazine and coeditor of the un...

Represents me, mandate that i pay these fees, whether i want to or not. I was not asked. It came out of my paycheck. For i saw the deduction union dues, i said, where is this coming from . I am not a member of the union. I never signed a pledge card, i never asked. My colleague said you have to have this fee come out. If you do not, you lose your job. What about the idea that you want the benefits of Union Protection but you do not want to pay the fees . Guest they are getting all of this money ...

I am join today by jim walden, the attorney for russian doping whistle whistleblowerrer, for this work into the dark underworld of fraud in sports and what we can do about it. As an administrative aside, would like to mention that camera crews are permitted to record the briefing in its entirety. Our topic today is a russian doping scandal, a story of corruption and fraud on an unprecedented scale. It has now been demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that the russian state was behind a systemic...

This book. Guest on a lot of the viewers may know me from cnn. You and i been on several of those panels throughout the election after, but but i realy came from a little smalltown called platte city florida and for those of you who eat strawberries its the world strawberry capital. If youre eating strawberries, good chance they come from plant city. It was important to me to write a book that just explored my roots, but how i see this election to the present i grew up in. Not to the confines of...

The founding generations appeal for scripture to answer fundamental political questions and to inform an emerging constitutional tradition. Daniel driesbeck is a professor in the school of Public Affairs at American University here in washington, d. C. , where he earned American Universitys highest faculty award scholar teacher of the year. His Research Interest includes constitutional law and the intersection of politics law and religion in American Public life. His most recent book is reading ...

Welcome to book tvindepth program, this is our special year of fiction on indepth. You see authors such as david baldacci, jody people, Walter Mosley, last month we had david ignatius, Washington Post columnist and thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month we are pleased to have Pulitzer Prize winning author Colson Whitehead as our guest with the most recent book is the underground railroad. Mister whitehead, whats the appropriate response when your book are are praised by op...

Next, the panel of scholars talks about Abraham Lincolns friendships both before and after he became president. This was part of the annual lincoln symposium in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Its just under an hour. Welcome to the Lincoln Forum and to a special Panel Discussion on lincolns friends. Lets start, if we can, with a lincoln quote because on todays topic, as with most subjects, Abraham Lincoln expressed himself better than almost anyone, and as he said in 1849, the better part of ones life...

Cspan. Org landmark cases. A look at the Global Economy with Financial Experts including Christine Legarde managing director of the international managing fund the Economic Forum in dove vose, switzerland, just over an hour. Im so im delight again to be moderating the Global Economic outlook. After what one has to agree was rather an unusual warmup act. I am very disappointed, however, that for some reason they forget to provide the band. [ applause ] which i think we would have enjoyed very muc...