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Give us your analysis of that. Theres no question that he is not only mysteries but a president and an autocrat at the same time. Clearly, this is a very, very difficult situation. How do you remove a president who has functionally no term of office and the power of the state behind him, the power of the military behind him . That is a conundrum that we have not yet managed to figure a way out of. I would like to see a system where the International Community could in fact joined together to bring about a change in the regime such as assad. We are not there yet. We dont have a United Nations o...

Tonight at 7 00, we continue q ancore presentations of with columnist gregg easterbrook. He discusses his book the king of sports. Here is a preview. Areoday most politicians oleaginous hacks what brought all that on . Congratulations knowing how to pronounce oleaginous. You are in a small minority. Football has become a cult and you see some evidence of this trade i present it in the book. Coaches have become revered figures in American Life and in some cases justifiably. If all men were like tony dungy the world would be a better place. But coaches have become substitute father figures in am...

Washington journal continues. Host joining us now to talk about political stories to watch in 2014, Shane Goldmacher of National Journal. He is their congressional correspondent. Good morning help new year. When it comes to the agenda when Congress Gets back in session, whats on the list . Guest they are coming back. They are coming back after three years of the at least productive legislative work in congressional history. Theres a lot on their agenda. Unfinished business. The first thing the senate will be taking up, is the effort to reextend Unemployment Insurance which expired at the end o...

I want to begin my discussion of my book, the road to global prosperity, with three assertions. The first assertion is that globalization, by which i mean the progressive integration of national economies, is here to stay. It will be with us Going Forward. Now, that might seem to go without saying given the remarkable and remarkably intense ongoing global integration that weve seen for most of the last 25 years, but if you look at the history of the genuinely Global Economy from its first emergence in the middle of the 19th century to the present, youll see that Global Economic integration is ...

It is my great pleasure to introduce professor jacob soll from the university of southern california. Among the most innovative and ambitious scholars in the field of intellectual history, professor solls work has shown that to understand the history of thought, we must understand the practical history of thinking, of the many mundane and often overlooked activities that go into making, storing and transmitting ideas. Professor soll received his ph. D. In 1998 and subsequently taught at princeton before his current position at usc. His work has been honored by the american philosophical societ...