Page 47 - Bob Herbert News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

0 about the economy. more americans believe things will get worse than believe things will get better. 23% over the next 12 months. that sense of despair is true about the american democracy. optimism and the u.s. system of government. it's at 30%, the lowest point in nearly 40 years. this is not a conventional one party is up and is down situation. the question is what happens when everybody is down. the last time we had a situation like this was 1992 and it produced a crazy election cycle. we saw a rise of inside and empty candidates like ross perot. the majority said they belonged to neithe...

Grief or the proper answer for some of the grief for some of the people involved. >> cliff and carol and bob, thank you so much . carl, stick around because i want to talk north carolina with you when we come back. comedy central took on north carolina's voting laws, but what is really going on is simply not a joke. raise up, north carolina. ♪

Snowden's newfound celebrity that i want to concentrate on here. there may be no better time to do it than right now. because saturday was the 12th birthday of the usa patriot act, signed into law by president george w. bush on october 26th, 2001, just about six week after september 11th terrorist attacks. and what has it done since? it has exploited one of the most vulnerable moments in our history to allow the nsa and the rest of washington's military industrial complex to expand federal tentacles, even deeper into our lives. all in the name of making us safer. but has it? still with me, bar...

Height of buildings act of 1910 and allow taller structures, the mayor's office hastened to assure people that, quote, you are not going to have a building that's going to overshadow the washington monument. joining me now are clifford shaynen, vice president for education and public programs, the national september 11th memorial and museum, and author of "the stories they tell." karla holloway, professor of english law and african-american studies at duke university. and still with me are bob herbert and carolyn marin, the political columnist at the "chicago sun-times." let me start with you....

0 one to bring god along for the ride. and although he spoke about his opposition to abortion, he never introduced a bill to oppose reproductive rights and he actually helped the cause by pointing supreme court justices, sandraday o'connor and anthony kennedy, who joined in the majority opinion in the case upholding roe v. wade. let's be clear, none of this is to suggest that reagan was a champion of using the power of government to help the little guy. though exploding deficits and growing government receipts were caused by bolstering the pentagon and unleashing jaw-dropping defense spending,...