Image - Arianna Huffington
Image - Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington: Beyond the Post

Duration
1:02:59

“It is no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species," says Huffington. She is now sounding the alarm on "Third World America" She takes on the menacing duo of Washington and Wall Street, brazenly charging politicians with abandonment of the middle class and claiming the disappearance of the American Dream. Is the American middle class really in danger of extinction? How can we close the widening gap between the haves and have-nots? Hear what one of the most influential voices in modern media has to say about America’s imminent (or not so imminent) collapse.

 

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 18, 2010

Speakers
Image - Arianna Huffington

​​​​​​​Arianna Huffington

Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post; Author, Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

In conversation with Raj Patel

Journalist; Activist; Author, Stuffed and Starved—Moderator