May 13, 2024

We discuss the presidential debate of Tuesday evening.
The participants are as follows:
Valerie Endress, is a professor in the communication department at Rhode Island College.  She teaches courses in the areas of rhetoric and social influence, political communication, leadership, and civic engagement.  She was named a Distinguished Teaching Fellow by the Eastern Communication Association, a capstone award in recognition for a career of distinguished excellence in teaching.  Her research and publications include such diverse topics as presidential and campaign communication, citizen engagement, violence and rhetorical action, and the rhetoric of war.  She also serves as Director of Rhode Island College’s American Democracy Project, where she coordinates a large variety of campus and community civic engagement projects. 

Paul Glastris is an American journalist and political columnist. Glastris is the current editor-in-chief of the Washington Monthly and was President Bill Clinton’s chief speechwriter from September 1998 to the end of his presidency in early 2001. Before 1998, Glastris was a correspondent for U.S. News HYPERLINK “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._News_&_World_Report”& HYPERLINK “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._News_&_World_Report” World Report.

Annelise Orleck is a professor of history, Jewish studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States (1995); The Soviet Jewish Americans (1999); Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty(2005); and Rethinking American Women’s Activism (2014). She is also a coeditor of The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right(1997), with Alexis Jetter and Diana Taylor, and The War on Poverty, 1969-1980: A New Grassroots History (2011), with Lisa Gayle Hazirjian. Her newest book is entitled “We Are All Fast Food Workers Now”: The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages (2018).

Robert Hennelly Award-winning investigative journalist, broadcast and print reporter for more than 30 years, covering federal, state and local politics, public policy, labor, the environment, law enforcement and national security. Currently Robert writes for Salon.com, InsiderNJ.com, The Chief Leader and can be found @stucknation. Bob previously worked for WNYC and NJ public radio
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