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Megan McArdle is a columnist for Bloomberg View and the author of The Upside of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success. She is a former senior editor for The Atlantic.
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Left, Right & Center
LRC Live: Taxes, tech and Taylor Swift It’s a special live Left, Right & Center from San Francisco!
Left, Right & Center
Left, Right & Center Live: Decisions, Decisions A special live broadcast of Left, Right & Center from INFORUM at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco
Left, Right & Center
The Olympics Open, The Government Shuts ...And you probably slept through both.
Left, Right & Center
Diversity lottery, Russia investigation and taxes Should terrorism in New York lead to the end of the Diversity Visa Lottery?
Left, Right & Center
Supreme Court closes the term allowing partial travel ban Newest SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch makes himself known.
Left, Right & Center
Should Trump criticize the judicial branch? President Trump's travel ban gets slapped down in court.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Should Democrats fight the election of Trump? Donald Trump’s presidential win is expected to become official Monday . That’s when members of the electoral college cast their votes for the president-elect. But there’s a growing effort on the left to try to flip electors’ votes to Hillary Clinton. The push has come amid revelations that Russia may have tried to sway the election in Trump’s favor, and Trump’s nearly 3 million popular vote loss. Mostly absent from that conversation: the Democratic party.
To the Point
Reality Check: health insurance and Obamacare Even President Obama says the Affordable Care Act has real problems, which Bill Clinton says make it the "craziest thing [he's] ever seen." That's put it front and center in the presidential campaign, to the delight of Donald Trump and the discomfort of Hillary Clinton . She wants reform. He wants repeal. And millions of newly insured people may be in for a "November Surprise:" a big jump in premiums -- before the election. We hear two very different approaches to an issue that has the potential to influence the voting.
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Red State, Blue State
The Enemy of the People Newsrooms have seen threats, suspicious packages, even shootings. Can they win back trust?
To the Point
The Voting is Over, but the Campaign Continues Women had a major impact on the midterm elections. So did $5 billion in campaign spending. Meantime, Democrats now lead the House while Republicans dominate the Senate, and the politics of division continues on Capitol Hill. We’ll hear how former House Speaker Newt Gingrich helped start an era of gridlock and perpetual campaigning.
The 805
Who will get displaced by a new Santa Barbara police station? The city of Santa Barbara says it needs a new police station, but building one means displacing either farmers or lawn bowlers. The Woolsey has not only destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate, but it’s displaced a diverse mix of wildlife. And a new contemporary art exhibition takes a deep dive into the most famous art heists in history.
To the Point
Firestorms, Federal Relief and Climate Change Victims of California’s fires can apply for assistance, but President Trump had a warning for the state’s residents. He wants to see a change in forest management. Scientists tell us the firestorms are are result of climate change--which the president still denies. Should cities still allow for building in firezones? Later, Warren talks to one Malibu resident about his firsthand experience in the Woolsey fire.