Ira Shapiro appears in the following:
U.S. Toughens Trade Talk with Canada
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
After the White House announced that it would impose a 20 percent tariff on lumber imported from Canada, the president took to Twitter to criticize America's neighbor to the north.
The Last Great Senate
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Ira Shapiro recounts the Senators of the 1960s and 1970s who overcame opposition to civil rights, passed Great Society legislation, and battled the executive branch on Vietnam, Watergate, and its abuses of power. In The Last Great Senate, he looks at how the Senate changed with the 1980 elections, and he offers insight into how the Senate used to work and what happened to diminish it.
