Julian Zelizer appears in the following:
Why Americans are Angry and D.C. is Broken
Monday, February 22, 2010
A new CNN poll finds that 86 percent of Americans think that government is broken. This week, we kick off a series called "Frustration Nation," where we examine the gridlock in the capital and how politics has come to be so divisive in America. For the first installment, we put today's situation in a historical context.
What History Teaches Us About the Supermajority
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The election of Republican Scott Brown as Massachusetts' new junior senator on Tuesday night sent shock waves through Washington. Politicians of on both sides of the aisle flocked to microphones to give their takes on the future of health care reform now that the Democrats no longer have the Senate 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster. But how did we come to expect a 59-vote majority as a bad thing? We look at the history of the supermajority.
National Security: Then and Now
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Princeton University professor of history and public affairs Julian Zelizer talks about his new book, Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security - From World War II to the War on Terrorism (Basic Books, 2010).
Making a List
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
The TSA has adopted a policy that will closely screen airline passengers from 14 countries. How do New Yorkers from those countries feel about the new measures? And Princeton professor Julian Zelizer offers some perspective - his new book looks at the history of US national security. Plus: NYT columnist ...
Senate Votes on Health Care Reform Shaped by Filibuster
Thursday, December 24, 2009
The Senate has voted on its version of health care reform just hours before the start of the Christmas holiday. But even after months of tense negotiating, Senate Republicans are stil...
Town Halls
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Legislators across the country have been holding town hall meetings about health care reform--and it's been quite an experience. Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and the author of Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, and Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, president and founder ...
Exchanging Ideas
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Town Hall meetings are the venue of choice for debating health care reform. Princeton historian Julian Zelizer and Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer of America Speaks look at the history and politics of that form of public discourse. Plus, how a health insurance exchange would work; a new forced treatment law in ...
Making Change or Making Noise: Obama's Healthcare Town Hall
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Last week, opponents of healthcare reform began their most recent strategy: raucous shout-downs at town hall meetings with U.S. senators and representatives. Tonight, President Obama...
Pick your president
Monday, February 16, 2009
Edna Greene Medford, a Professor of History at Howard University and Julian Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, talk about our favorite presidents and a new list ranking them from one to forty-two.
30 Issues: Management Styles and Decision Making
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and co-editor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, looks at how presidents' management styles say about their effectiveness as leaders.
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David Hawkings, managing editor of CQ Weekly, discusses ...
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David Hawkings, managing editor of CQ Weekly, discusses ...
30 Issues: Partisanship in Washington
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Julian Zelizer a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and co-editor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, talks about the history of partisanship in Washington over the last 30 decades. Then, New York State Assemblyman Mike Gianaris D-36, ...
Are You the One? Presidential Prep
Monday, January 07, 2008
Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and co-author of the forthcoming Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (Harvard University Press, 2008), discusses which has made the better president -- experience as governor or as a U.S. Senator.
