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Feet to the Fire

The left is lining up to make sure the Obama administration follows through on its more progressive promises. Elise Gould, health economist at the Economic Policy Institute, Ted Lewis, human rights director for Global Exchange, and Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University discuss what they expect from Obama's first term.

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Over The Cliff?

WNYC's Bob Hennelly updates the latest NYC budget woes.

Watch Mayor Bloomberg's Budget Press Conference

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40 Years Later

David Fenton, founder and CEO, Fenton Communications, and former Liberation News Service photographer and Bernadine Dohrn, former Weather Underground leader, now director and clinical professor of law, Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University School of Law, discuss the legacy of the 1960s.

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The panel discussion “The Legacy of the 1960s, Good and Bad,” with SDS Founder Tom Hayden, former Weatherman leader Bernadine Dohrn, former Black Panther Jamal Joseph and photographer David Fenton; moderated by Josh Marshall, editor and publisher of Talking Points Memo, is fully reserved. A webcast of the event will be available here.

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Demographics

John B. Judis, a senior editor of New Republic, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the author of The Emerging Democratic Majority and The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (Scribner, 2004) looks at what this election means for party dominance.

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FUF: Prop It To Me

Just how do propositions make it onto the ballot? Kareem Crayton, associate professor of law and political science at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, explains the often complicated process.

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FUF: Paying Your Share

We follow up on a caller who said that, even though she will pay more taxes under the Obama plan, she is willing to chip in more during tough economic times.

Are you in the same situation? How much higher would you be willing to make your taxes? Comment below!

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Frugal Life

Tod Marks, senior editor at Consumer Reports and editor of the blog "Tightwad Tod" and Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley talk about Americans' new-found frugality.

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