Jonathan Alter appears in the following:
Analyzing the Obamacare Rollout Failure
Monday, February 24, 2014
Jonathan Alter, MSNBC analyst and author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One (Simon & Schuster, 2010), talks DC politics and his Foreign Affairs analysis of the how the president's management style led to a failed launch of the ACA.
Can Obama's Inequality Message Win Back Millennials?
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Obama and His Enemies
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Jonathan Alter, columnist for Bloomberg View, analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and the author of The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies (Simon & Schuster, 2013), offers analysis of the news and looks back at the 2012 presidential election.
Summer Politics
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Fourth of July fireworks are over, but are the political ones just getting started? Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg columnist, MSNBC analyst and the author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, looks at the news in Washington.
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President Obama's Deficit Reduction Plan
Thursday, April 14, 2011
David Leonhardt, writer of the "Economic Scene" column for the New York Times, breaks down the fiscal impact of President Obama's deficit reduction plan, and how it differs from the Paul Ryan proposal.
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The Political Week Ahead
Monday, March 07, 2011
A budget showdown and questions about the US military response to unrest in Libya looms large this week. Jonathan Alter, correspondent for Newsweek and the author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, previews the week in politics ahead.
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Jonathan Alter: Obama Needs to Innovate
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Next week, President Barack Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union address. We can expect to hear him lay out his roadmap for the next two years. Leading up to his address, we’re talking with some key political observers about the direction in which the president should and must move in his remaining time in office.
What The Giffords Shooting Means For Washington
Monday, January 10, 2011
Jonathan Alter talks about the Arizona shootings and what this means for Washington. Alter is a correspondent for Newsweek, a columnist for Bloomberg News and The Daily Beast, an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One (now in paperback). He is joined by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY4).
Obama's Left, Right and Center
Friday, July 30, 2010
Jonathan Alter, Newsweek columnist, MSNBC contributor, and the author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, talk about the Obama agenda, the angry left and right, and the coming midterm elections.
Obama's Left, Right and Center
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Jonathan Alter, Newsweek columnist, MSNBC contributor, and the author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, talk about the Obama agenda, the angry left and right, and the coming midterm elections.
President in Crisis
Monday, June 07, 2010
Jonathan Alter, Newsweek columnist, MSNBC contributor, and the author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, talks about President Obama's leadership through crisis.
The Promise: Jonathan Alter on Obama's First Year
Monday, May 17, 2010
Barack Obama decided on the night he won the presidency to make comprehensive health care legislation his first priority. Not all of his aides agreed. "I begged him not to do this," his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, later told Jonathan Alter for his book, "The Promise: President Obama, Year One."