but that i'm conversations in great minds i'm joined by timothy noah timothy is an american journalist and a senior editor at the new republic where he writes the t.r.p. column as well as a political blog he's also contributing editor to the washington monthly and frequent commentator on the c.b.s. news program sunday morning twenty ten he was a national magazine award finalist in the online news reporting category and he wrote the chatterbox column in slate magazine for ten years and if he is the author of multiple book books including his latest the great divergence america's growing inequality crisis and what we can do about it joins me now in the studio thanks for being with us thanks for having me the great divergence you mention that paul krugman and better this phrase if i call he did yes the. the period from one thousand nine hundred thirty four to one nine hundred seventy nine had been characterized by the harvard economist claudia golden as the great compression because incomes became steadily more equal. and picking up on that terminology been called the period from one nine

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>> timothy noah, brother of peter noah and columnist for the "new republic," and most importantly, theof the new book that mitt romney is hoping you cannot afford to buy, "the great divergence: america's growing inequality crisis and what we can do about it," timothy, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> coming up, the romney campaign uses a diner in iowa to stage a phony roundtable discussion and while they're at it, the romney staff trashed the diner. you'll hear from the owner of the diner and see more video of mitt romney in his struggle to be human. >>> and in the "rewrite" tonight, barack obama has been known to play a game of e nd mi romney owns a horse that may be on its way to the olympics, which once again raises, and we think answers, the question, who's the real american? that's in tonight's "rewrite." >>> the republican party >>> and in the "rewrite" tonight, barack obama has been known to play a game of horse on the basketball court and mitt romney owns a horse that may be on its way to the olympics, which once again raises, and we think

i thought this was a great op-ed in "the new york times" today, quoting timothy noah, who is author of "the great divergence." draw one line on a graph charting the decline in union membership, then superimpose a second line charting the decline in middle class income share, writes noah, and you will find that the two lines are nearly identical. richard freeman a harvard economist, has estimated that the decline of unions explains about 20% of the income gap. as we have seen, national union membership has dropped 20% from 20% to 13.3%. this is beyond just a discussion and argument over big labor and collective barg ning, this is over the middle class and what is a fair share. >> there's no question about it. a rising tide lifts all boats. when you have collective bargaining, when you have negotiation in the workplace with employees and management, what you are going to have is a bar that will be set, whether other employees, whether in the organization or not, are going to seek out. if you destroy that bar, if you destroy that union, which the republicans have been trying to do for the

timothy, noah, our guest, the great divergence is his book.i'm not an activist, i'm outspoken. i'm a dramatist. jennifer granholm is politically direct on current tv. >>the dominoes are starting to fall. (vo) granholm is live in the war room. >> what should women be doing? >> electing women to office. (vo) she's a political trailblazer. >>republicans of course didn't let facts get in the way of spin. >>do it, for america. >> on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. >> all right. last warning, going to -- for the people in chicago, come on out to darian, illinois, tomorrow afternoon. you have to be there. don't miss it. i will be there at the frugal muse bookstore from 2:00 to 4:00 talking about my latest book, "the obama hate machine." hope to see you there. timothy noah talking about his first book, very important book, the great die virg divergence. what can we do about it? >> there was always that final chapter. i just decided, look. let's talk about real solutions rather than solutions that can pass congress in the nex