We want our elected officials to be superstars, but is that a good thing? Oz, the memeification of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine - the power of celebrity has gripped our democracy and society. They are ubiquitous in American culture and now, ever increasingly, in our politics. Jane’s recommendation: Lucy Worsley’s three-episode mini-series “Secrets of the Six Wives”Ĭelebrities. Sandy Baum for the Urban Institute: “Strengthening the Federal Role in the Federal-State Partnership for Funding Higher Education” Sandy Baum in Education Next: “Mass Debt Forgiveness Is Not a Progressive Idea”Īstra Taylor’s documentary for The Intercept: “You Are Not a Loan” And she offers a royal history tour after Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.Īstra Taylor in The Nation: “The Case for Wide-Scale Debt Relief” Is canceling everyone’s debt progressive policy, as Taylor contends? Or does it end up being a regressive measure, as Baum insists? Jane hears them both out.
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While the activist and the economist agree that addressing the crisis requires dramatic measures, they disagree on how to get there. So what is the fairest way to correct course?Īstra Taylor - an author, a documentarian and a co-founder of the Debt Collective - dukes it out with Sandy Baum, an economist and a nonresident senior fellow at the Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban Institute. President Biden has put some debt cancellation on the table, but progressive Democrats are pushing him for more. As a college degree has grown increasingly necessary for economic mobility, so has the $1.7 trillion in student loan debt that Americans have taken on to access that opportunity. The problem of student loan debt has reached crisis proportions. Today, with the Biden Administration weighing whether to extend the federal student loan payment freeze, we're re-airing one of our most timely debates from last year: Canceling student loan debt. “The Future of Supreme Court Reform,” by Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman in Harvard Law Review, published in May 2021. “We Don’t Need to Reform the Supreme Court,” by Russ Miller in Just Security, published in February 2021. That Has Justices Worried,” by Russ Feingold in The Guardian, published in October 2021. “Americans No Longer Have Faith in the U.S. Russ Miller is an attorney and law professor at Washington and Lee and the head of the Max Planck Law Network in Germany. Russ Feingold is the president of the American Constitution Society and was a Democratic senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011. Today, Jane Coaston brings together two guests who disagree on whether altering Supreme Court practices is the right call and, if yes, what kind of changes would make sense for the highest judicial body in the nation. And now Democrats want to push back by introducing some radical changes. It’s the culmination of decades of effort by Republicans to make the courts more conservative. The past decade has brought a shift in the makeup of the court - from Brett Kavanaugh, appointed despite sexual assault allegations, to Merrick Garland, blocked from confirmation, and Amy Coney Barrett, rushed to confirmation. Wade, the landmark case that gave women nationwide the right to have abortions, has been overturned, and the debate around changing the way we structure the bench - in particular, packing the court - is getting only more heated.
This episode originally aired before the Dobbs decision was released this summer.Ģ022 is a big year for supporters of Supreme Court reform.
Today, we're re-airing one of our most timely debates from earlier this year: Reforming the Supreme Court.
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