Protecting the Wealthy

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 1, 2023

Joan Walsh, The Nation's national affairs correspondent, and, Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of the research and policy center, In the Public Interest, and co-author of Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America (The New Press, 2023), lay out 6 ways they say the wealthy and powerful have blocked progress in the U.S.

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