Huey Long

When Everyone Gets a Trophy, No One Wins

Michael Sigman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Lake Wobegon, Interest Rates, College Students, Private School Students, Inflation, Garrison Keillor, Elementary School, Huey Long, The Fed, Grade Inflation, Kindergarten, Education News
Michael Sigman

The nation has become a self-parodic reflection of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon: thanks to collusion between parents and educators, the vast majority of all private school children are virtually guaranteed to be above average.

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The Super Committee, Austerity, Stimulus, and Compromise: the Collapse of American Politics

Richard Brodsky | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Keynesian Economics, F.A. Hayek, Technocrats, Super Committee, Huey Long, Congress Super Committee, Austerity, Politics News
Richard Brodsky

How deeply do you want to plumb the depths of the collapse of the super committee?

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Writing Your Bucket List? Check Out Our 'Must-Dos'

The Huffington Post | Evan Allis | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Carnaval, Antarctica, Things to Do Before You Die, Bucket List, Marathon, Burning Man, Skydiving, Amazon Rainforest, Huey Long, Fifty News

In 1935, as he lay dying from an assassin's bullet at the age of 42, Senator Huey Long whispered his final words on the steps of a Louisiana courthous...

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Huey Long Advises Occupy Wall Street: Need an Agenda? You Can Have Mine.

Rebecca Sive | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Ordinary Americans, Occupy Wall Street, Share Our Wealth, Zucotti Park, Huey Long, Politics News
Rebecca Sive

In a national radio address on February 23, 1934, Huey Long unveiled his "Share Our Wealth" plan, a program designed to provide a decent standard of living to all Americans by spreading the nation's wealth among the people.

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Stan Greenberg: Afghanistan War Likely Cause of Primary Challenge

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stan Greenberg, Eugene McCarthy, Ross Perot, Afghanistan, Nancy Pelosi, Jesse Jackson, Christian Science Monitor, Joe Biden, Huey Long, Afghanistan War, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

Press reports have suggested that the White House is trying to make Democratic voters forget that the Administration promised to start drawing down troops from Afghanistan in July 2011.

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Under The Influence

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nabokov, Mocha Dick, Hemingway, Herman Melville, Lolita Nabokov, Moby Dick, All the King's Men, The Fountainhead, Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Huey Long, Ayn Rand, Gogol, Atlas Shrugged, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Clemm, Melville Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, F Scott Fitzgerald, Daniel Defoe, Slidepollajax, Poe, Tolstoy, Lolita, Constance Garnett, Books News

Writing a book is usually a long, hair-pulling affair for the author. But in the end, only one name appears on the front of the book: their own. What...

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From BP Massacre to BP Massacred: Let's Move

Rebecca Sive | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Carville, British Petroleum, Bp, Huey Long, Obama Gulf Oil Spill, Louisiana, President Barack Obama, Chicago News
Rebecca Sive

Yes, the Kingfish was loud, abrasive, and dictatorial, but he was also right -- right for the people of Louisiana, and, it now appears, right for the rest of us Americans, too.

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Stop the Violence: Taking on Today's Demagogues

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meet the Press, Father Coughlin, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Mike Signer, Demagogue, Sarah Palin, David Gregory, Glenn Beck, The Daily Beast, Huey Long, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Mike Signer

President Obama isn't exactly FDR, and Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin certainly aren't Huey Long and Father Coughlin, but the 1930s still hold powerful lessons for our leaders today.

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Banana Republic, U.S.A.? "Populism" Comes to America

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Edwards, Huey Long, Tea Party, Silvio Berlusconi, Barack Obama, Alberto Fujimori, Populism, Wall Street, Pbs-Newshour, Politics News
Nikolas Kozloff

Confronting economic malaise, the country seems to be heading back into one of its perennial populist cycles. As a result, "going populist is now smart politics and good policy."

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Filibusters Could Be Fun

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: GOP Filibuster, Filibuster-Proof Majority, Virtual Filibuster, Jack Kemp, Mitch McConnell, Civil Rights Legislation, Huey Long, Woodrow Wilson, History of Filibuster, Senate, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

In the 19th century there were only 23 filibusters, while between 1970 and 2004 there were 191. The increase in number is attributable to the Virtual Filibuster.

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Palin: The Worst Angels of Our Nature

Charles J. Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Great Crash of 2008, Karl Rove, John McCain, Henry Kissinger, Sinclair Lewis, Huey Long, George Wallace, It Can't Happen Here, Charles Lindbergh, Election 2008, William Kristol, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Charles Coughlin, Great Depression, Strom Thurmond, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

The Palinistas are far less interested in electing McCain than they are in putting the Sarahnator one step away from the White House (and, they hope, in it soon).

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Palin Fans Flames Of Fear And Hatred

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Race Politics, John McCain, Father Coughlin, Palin Mccain, Huey Long, Joe Mccarthy, Barack Obama, McCain Palin, Campaign 2008, Palin Mccarthy, Sarah Palin, Politics Race, Racism, Election 2008, Home News
Denise Dennis

During times of extreme insecurity, people can fall easy prey to the fiery rhetoric and xenophobia of folksy characters like Sarah Palin, Huey Long, Charles Coughlin and Joe McCarthy.

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