871 Journalist , Author , Historian Jonathan Alter on Daniel Ellsberg, Debt Ceiling results, RGK Jr and More!
Release Date: 06/21/2023
1372 David Cay Johnston + News and Clips
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1371 Michael Grunwald + News and Clips
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1370 MUSK V TRUMP and the rest of the news
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1369 Dr Christina Greer + Headlines & Clips
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1368 Mariah Blake + News & Clips
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1368 Mariah Blake + News & Clips
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1367 Dean Blundell & Headlines
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1366 JL Cauvin + News and Clips
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1365 Christian Finnegan Returns !
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1364 Jeff Jarvis and Bill Boyle + Your Headlines & Clips
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Jonathan Alter is an award-winning author, political analyst, documentary filmmaker, columnist, television producer and radio host.
Alter’s most recent book is “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life.” (2020), which received uniformly favorable reviews. His earlier books include three New York Times bestsellers: “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies” (2013), “The Promise: President Obama, Year One” (2010) and “The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope” (2006), also one of the Times’ “Notable Books” of the year.
A former senior editor and columnist at Newsweek, Alter is a longtime political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. He co-produced and co-directed the HBO documentary “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” which won the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding Historical Documentary. In 2013-2014, he was an executive producer of “Alpha House,“ a comedy on Amazon.
Over the years, Alter has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Monthly, the New Yorker, Bloomberg, the Daily Beast and other publications. In 2021, he launched a weekly Substack newsletter called “OLD GOATS, Ruminating with Friends,” which includes frequent columns and his conversations with accomplished people of wisdom and experience. Since 2016, he has hosted “Alter Family Politics“ each week on Sirius XM, 102 with his three adult children