Empire - Choosing the American President

Follow on Twitter: twitter.com Follow on Facebook: www.facebook.com How different will the US look in the next four years? The voting is over and President Obama has won a second term. Through the rallies and conventions, social media, biting political satire, and billions of dollars of television commercials, the debate on the role of the federal government became increasingly polarised--the US has not been this divided since perhaps the civil war. Some argue that the real question is not the size of the government, or even its role, but rather whose side the government is on. Has it been bought and sold by the one per cent, or is there still room for the 99 per cent? Or even the 47 per cent? Interviewees: Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Princeton professor and author of Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen; and Thomas Frank, the author of What's the Matter with Kansas and Pity the Billionaire: The Unlikely Comeback of the American Right. Guests: Cynthia McKinney, former presidential candidate for the Green Party and first African-American woman to represent the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives; Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former member of President Clinton's National Security Council; Ellen Laipson, president of the Stimson Center, former vice chair of the National Intelligence Council and former member of President Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board; Helle Dale, senior fellow in Public Diplomacy at the Heritage <b>...</b>
Author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Duration: 47:24



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Empire - Choosing the American President