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ROBERT REICH on Obama’s economy: the Senate has failed to pass unemployment extension, and is getting ready to approve tax cuts for the rich. Robert Reich was secretary of labor under Bill Clinton; his new book is Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future.
Our Haiti update from AMY WILENTZ: elections last Sunday – no results yet. And almost a year after the killer earthquake, a million people are still homeless. And now there’s a cholera epidemic. Amy wrote about the elections for the New York Times op-ed page.
Lincoln and slavery: how our greatest president changed his mind about abolition, war, emancipation, and black voting rights, and why he gave up the idea that freed slaves would have to leave the US: Columbia University historian ERIC FONER explains — his new book is The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.
