February 2015 | Page 5 of 5 | In Deep with Angie Coiro

Outsmart ALEC: Understanding the Right s scary private legislative control center – Feb 11 2012 Hour 2

February 16, 2015June 15, 2015 By Angie Coiro Comment Closed

ALEC is a well-funded Right-wing strategic and tactical operation that works to craft social and financial legislation favoring Conservative causes as well as limiting access to the voting booth for groups who tend to vote Democratic. Guest Lisa Graves, Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy, and part of the ALEC Exposed project; and Julie Underwood, Dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, and Susan Smith, President of the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida; plus featured blogger Spocko has a piece on how to engage the nefarious ALEC....

State of the Unions: state-level strategies dilute workers rights – Feb 4 2012 Hour 2

February 10, 2015June 15, 2015 By Angie Coiro Comment Closed

Big labor is a thing of the past. Angie discusses the situation of unions in the current political climate, first with David Dayen of FireDogLake and Calitics, and then with labor journalist Steve Early, author of Embedded with Organized Labor. David Dayen Steve Early ...

Susan G. Komen For The Cure defunds planned parenthood – Feb 4 2012 Hour 1

February 10, 2015June 15, 2015 By Angie Coiro Comment Closed

Angie interviews Gayle Sulik, author of Pink Ribbon Blues, on the controversy surrounding the Susan G. Komen Foundation's withdrawal of funding for low-income patient mammograms through Planned Parenthood. ...

(Un)civil public discourse: what we gain and what we lose from the coarsening political culture – Jan 28, 2012 Hour 2

February 4, 2015June 15, 2015 By Angie Coiro Comment Closed

Angie interviews the Reverend Cassandra Dahnke, cofounder of The Institute for Civility in Government, and coauthor with Thomas Spath of Reclaiming Civility in the Public Square: 10 Rules That Work; and Congressional candidate Norman Solomon on the psychology, tactics and consequences of America's rampant attack-mode of public discourse. ...