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Spitzer-Matalin on Chase Chastened & Bain Targeted

While Zuckerberg had a better week than Ricketts, Both Sides Now eats its spinach and discusses the Political Economy. After Jamie Dimon's apology, it's harder for the GOP to use Dodd-Frank as a four-letter word. And it's game on a) on Romney's record...

Both Sides: Caro on LBJ-BHO, Huff/Matalin on a Gay Week

Arianna and Mary discuss the greatest biographer of our era writing about the most complicated president of our era. Bob Caro's four volumes try to figure out how one person could combine ruthlessness and compassion, how one politician could be...

The 2012 election will turn on the economy AND voters' views whether the young senator they entrusted with the presidency -- only the third ever -- has risen to the occasion and grown in the job. This has been Obama-Osama week, from an anniversary ad to Peter Bergen's Manhunt to...

Continuing a conversation begun last week with Arianna and Kellyanne Conway, Ron Reagan and Mary Matalin this week own up to where their premises/instincts come from and then apply their thinking to the big issue of Ryan Budget vs. The Buffett Rule. Based on slew of general election polls, should...

By Mark Green

Using the framework of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt. Huffington and Conway discuss the news -- from Trayvon-Zimmerman and GOP-women... to Hilary Rosen and Allen West. (Host: each is asked to talk about...

By Mark Green

No Mad Men this week, neither the AMC nor GOP variety. Instead, Mary Matalin and civil liberties lawyer Ron Kuby clash over three headlines -- Is Obamacare on life support? Is it fair to talk race in the Treyvon tragedy? And, after Etch a Sketch and the...

This week Ron Reagan and Mary Matalin sharply though civilly debate three issues that may sway the 2012 elections because they seriously affect America's money, health and lives - dramatically rising pump prices, the judicial conclusion of the Affordable Care Act and Afghan war policy shaken by slaughter.

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By Mark Green

Eliot Spitzer and Mary Matalin civilly clash on a range of hot topics from war to comedy to jobs...and then the program goes to the dogs to discuss whether Romney's dog-on-roof incident is reaching the iconic status of Jimmy Carter's killer-rabbit fable.

*On Obama's Press Conference re...

By Mark Green

Arianna and Mary focus on war and politics this week since a) Obama and Netanyahu meet Monday and continue their arranged marriage to discuss Iran's nuclear intentions and b) it's midway between the Michigan and Super-Tuesday primaries. While the GOP presidential contenders sound like they'd like to...

By Mark Green

Cotton Mather and Anthony Comstock are (in)famous for ignoring Church-State and infusing moral values into the law. Now comes Rick Santorum whose preachy views on conception and sin are music to the ears of many GOP primary voters as we approach another make-or-break primary day, this time...

By Mark Green

Based on recent news -- church-contraception, Komen, gay marriage, Santorum surge -- James (Matalin) Carville's aphorism seems to have been altered to "it's the culture war, stupid." Mary and Arianna clash over the faith-health controversy but then find consensus on Komen-Planned Parenthood and Karl Rove's kvetching over...

By Mark Green

The top two Republican presidential competitors continue their bitter Fisher-Spassky contest. Romney wins big in Florida but then adds to his patrician flub reel; Gingrich gives a non-concession speech and shares the date of his moon-colony, to be given statehood ahead of D.C. and Puerto Rico.

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In the eleventh episode of Sports Blitz Now -- the brand new Huffington Post sports radio show -- Jordan Schultz and host Scott Braun discuss the ins and outs of Super Bowl XLVI and the keys for each team. Specifically, Braun disagrees with Schultz's belief that Big Blue must establish...

By Mark Green

While President Obama and Mitt Romney gained from their State of the Union and debate performances, respectively, Newt Gingrich seemed to be flailing and failing, a cut above the Costa Concordia captain. Ron Reagan and Mary Matalin discuss the state of Obama after his red-white-blue address and...

By Mark Green

Rick Perry's campaign hits a reef and capsizes. He'll be missed since few candidates assert that NATO ally Turkey is run by "Islamic terrorists" and that a Christian president has launched a war against his own religion.

The Fox and CNN debates last week made Kennedy-Nixon look...

In the tenth episode of Sports Blitz Now -- the brand new Huffington Post sports radio show -- Jordan Schultz and host Scott Braun discuss how the Giants can continue the miracle joyride and beat San Francisco, and talk about how the Ravens can exploit the zone defense of New...

By Mark Green

On the only national radio show that's two sides and two women, Arianna Huffington and Mary Matalin debate a resolution about whether Romney has won Pyrrhic victories -- has he "fired" himself?

The two also discuss how donors are becoming more important than candidates because of...

In the ninth episode of Sports Blitz Now -- the brand new Huffington Post sports radio show -- Jordan Schultz and host Scott Braun discuss the Giants chances of beating Green Bay at Lambeau Field, and why Tim Tebow's miraculous season is about to come to an abrupt end.

The...

By Mark Green

"I'm a serious candidate for President of the United States," Michele Bachmann repeatedly said. Never was; isn't now. Two experts on GOP presidential contests -- Mary Matalin and Ron Reagan -- debate the remaining candidates and arrive at very different conclusions.
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By Mark Green

It's been a challenging week for the GOP: Independents by 53% to 33% believe Republicans to be more extreme than Democrats (Pew); and Americans by 64% to 33% don't think the Iraq War worth it (CBS). Hooked on Fox and obsessed with Obama,...