Linda Chavez
Special guest
Linda Chavez is director of the Becoming American Initaitive. She is one the of chairmen for the Center for Equal Opportunity, a syndicated columnist, and has served on two Fortune 500 company boards. She authored Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation, discussing the timeline of Hispanic progress regarding bilingual education, voting rights, immigration, and affirmative action. Chavez served in the Reagan administration as the Director of the Office of Public Liaison, making her the highest-ranking woman in President Reagan’s White House. In 2000, the Library of Congress named Chavez a Living Legend.
Linda Chavez has been a guest on 105 episodes.
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Don’t Pack the Court
April 16th, 2021 | 1 hr 5 mins
afghanistan, court packing, police violence, president biden, scotus
AEI’s Norm Ornstein joins to discuss police violence, court packing, and Afghanistan.
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Manchin's Ultimatum
April 9th, 2021 | 1 hr 3 mins
boycott culture, china, election law, filibuster, fundraising, georgia, gop, h.r. 1, human rights, joe manchin, marjorie taylor greene, mlb, olympics, politics, sb 202, senate
On this week’s Beg to Differ, Sarah Longwell sits in for Mona Charen, and discusses with the panel the future of the filibuster, GOP fundraising tactics and their new embrace of boycott culture, H.R. 1 and election law, and China and the Olympics.
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Will Biden Bucks Defeat Culture Wars?
April 2nd, 2021 | 1 hr 3 mins
church membership, gop, infrastructure, president biden, spending, working class
Bret Stephens joins to consider the latest multi-trillion dollar spending bill, the GOP workers' party strategy, and the decline in church membership.
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Report Card
March 26th, 2021 | 1 hr 37 secs
china, economics, new deal, pandemic, president biden
George F. Will joins to discuss lessons of the pandemic, whether Biden is creating a new New Deal, and how to handle China.
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Build Biden Better
March 19th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
border policies, child allowance, covid-19, filibuster, immigration, joe biden, stimulus, taxes
The Niskanen Center's Samuel Hammond joins to discuss improving Biden's child allowance and border policies. Plus: eliminate the filibuster?
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Is There a Trapdoor in the Recovery Plan?
March 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
border, budget, covid-19, debt, deficit, elections, immigration, inflation, politics, recovery plan, spending, working class
AEI's Desmond Lachman analyzes the inflation risk in our gargantuan spending and loose money policies. The panel then considers the border crisis and the GOP's outreach to the working class.
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2020 Warnings for Democrats
March 5th, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
democrats, elections, foreign policy, hr1, iran, middle east, republicans, voting laws
AEI’s Kori Schake joins to discuss Biden’s Iran policy, non-white voters’ move right, and whether HR1 can solve the Democratic party’s geography problem.
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Is the Stimulus a Clunker?
February 26th, 2021 | 58 mins 39 secs
budget, europe, insurrection, january 6, joe biden, stimulus
Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget offers her insights. The group also discusses prospects for a Jan 6 commission, and Europe's response to Biden.
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Powerless Texas
February 19th, 2021 | 1 hr 6 mins
gop, ice, mcconnell, rush limbaugh, ted cruz, texas, trump
Slate's Will Saletan returns to consider the McConnell/Trump GOP, Texas's woes, and Limbaugh's legacy.
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Convict Him
February 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 1 min
cancel culture, covid, democrats, don mcneill, impeachment, new york times, relief, romney, trump
Jay Nordlinger joins to discuss the impeachment trial, the Romney plan for families, and the firing of Don McNeill from the NYTimes.
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Is Compromise Alive?
February 5th, 2021 | 1 hr 10 mins
gop, self governing
Tom Nichols joins to consider the state of governance and GOP self-policing.
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Can We Live Together in Peace?
January 29th, 2021 | 1 hr 1 min
alexei navalny, democrats, joe biden, putin, reconciliation, republicans, russia
Anne Applebaum joins to discuss options for reconciliation. Also, brave Navalny and cowardly Republicans.