If Biden Wants to Build Back Better, He Should Look to Obama’s Mistakes

11/05/21 • 53 min

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The fallout from the 2008 financial crisis has defined national politics ever since. If he wants his “Build Back Better” agenda to have a chance of success, argues journalist and political commentator David Sirota in his new podcast Meltdown, he’ll have to take the lessons of the last twelve years seriously.

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