Alec Hamilton

Senior Producer, WNYC News

Alec Hamilton appears in the following:

Aftershocks of the Financial Crisis

Thursday, February 10, 2011

I believe we need to be much more aggressive in trying to help people who can make a level of payments stay in their homes… We have created a tangled web and I believe we need much ...

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The False Hope of State Bankruptcy

Thursday, February 10, 2011

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This is a problem endemic to politics — people without responsibility happy to go off saying things that are not going to work in practice. — Nicole Gelinas, contributing editor at ...

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Smoking Ban Makes Strange Bedfellows

Friday, February 04, 2011

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We feel really strongly that all New Yorkers have a right to breathe clean air. The US Surgeon General said there is no safe level of exposure to second hand smoke, and that is where ...

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Israel Nervously Watches Egypt

Friday, February 04, 2011

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It’s a nervous time for all the entire region for all of the current governments and given that Egypt is the cornerstone for Israel’s peace policy in the entire region, Israel’s proba...

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Threat or Promise: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood

Thursday, February 03, 2011

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If I were an Iranian leader like Ahmadinejad and the mullahs, I would be terrified, because as we well know, in the last year or so Iran has witnessed a great deal of social upheaval,...

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The U.S. Response to the Protests in Egypt

Friday, January 28, 2011

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I’m just stunned at what is going on. The United States seems like it really has lost the plot and is behind the curve on this. — Blake Hounshell, managing editor of Foreign Policy

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Paradigm Shift: Wikileaks and the New York Times

Friday, January 28, 2011

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There’s no question that Mister Assange dislikes me quite intensely, I don’t think he likes Mister Keller very much anymore... It’s not exactly an embrace. — John Burns London bureau...

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The Unkindest Cut: What the People Want

Thursday, January 27, 2011

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A number of polls have looked to the people to try to divine where Americans would most support belt-tightening. The New York Times made a game in which readers could try their own ...

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State of the Union: The View from Queens

Thursday, January 27, 2011

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We got to make sure everyone feels a little of the pain, so that – I’ve got an eleven year old daughter – so that we feel that their future is secure, and we’ve got to be adults, and ...

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From Tunisia to Egypt: Protests for Democracy in the Arab World

Thursday, January 27, 2011

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President Obama has said again and again, he has warned tyrants around the world that they’re on the wrong side of history. And he promised people around the world fighting those ty...

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Citizens United: A Year Older, But No Less Contentious

Friday, January 21, 2011

On the one year anniversary of the Citizens United campaign finance decision, the ruling remains as contentious as ever, with efforts under way to alternative mechanisms to fund campaigns, and attempts to change the law itself.

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Where We Stand: The State of Our Union

Friday, January 21, 2011

As President Obama gets ready to address the country on the State of the Union on Tuesday, here at It’s A Free Country we thought we ought to do our own check-in, so here are some stats on where we stand. 

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You Take That Back! A Look at the Challenge of Repealing Federal Law

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Republican leaders in Congress have started the debate about repealing the health care overhaul legislation, and plan to vote on the repeal on Wednesday. In advance of the vote, It's A Free Country takes a look at how other repeal efforts in American history have fared.

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Obama Administration: Who's In, Who's Out

Friday, January 07, 2011

It's A Free Country tracks the departing, new, and remaining White House positions.

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The Truth About Public Employee Pensions

Friday, January 07, 2011

What you are hearing in the media is not true. The pension funds are not underfunded. — Greg Floyd, president of Teamsters Local 237

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Andrew Cuomo's Hopeful Bad News

Thursday, January 06, 2011

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After the last four years of dysfunction and corruption and watching New York spin down the drain, there’s at least hope now — cautious hope, given what we’ve seen — but at least ther...

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Rereading the Constitution

Thursday, January 06, 2011

There was a recognition that the United States was ultimately a bond formed among the people themselves, not just between the states. — Geoffrey Stone, Chairman of the American Const...

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Cuomo's People: In the Governor's Office

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Governor Andrew Cuomo has named many of the people he is bringing in to run the administration. Here's the official It's A Free Country guide to Cuomo's team (so far). Better bookmark this now — there's no telling who might need a letter someday.

»» Also check out our guide to Cuomo's Agency Heads

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Cuomo's People: Who Will Head the Major Agencies?

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

WNYC

Governor Andrew Cuomo has named many of the people he is bringing in to run the administration and state agencies. Many departments and agencies are facing potentially deep cuts to the services they provide. Here's the It's A Free Country guide to the people who will be enacting Cuomo's "rightsizing," in order of their agency budget size.

»» Also check out our guide to Cuomo's Team in the Governor's Office

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It's A Free Country All-Stars on the Coming Political Year

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

If future compromising will mean that Obama basically keeps extending tax cuts and lives up to so many conservative principles, I’m all for compromise. —Karol Markowicz, It's A F...
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