Jonathan Alter
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"Jonathan Alter" is an American journalist, best-selling author, and television producer who was a columnist and senior editing/editor for Newsweek magazine from 1983 until 2011, and has written three New York Times best-selling books about American presidents. He is a contributing correspondent to NBC News, where since 1996 he has appeared on NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC. Alter was one of the first magazine or newspaper reporters to appear on MSNBC. When the shows were on the air, he could often be heard on Imus in the Morning and The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio. Alter is currently an executive producer on the Amazon Studio’s production Alpha House, which stars John Goodman, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson, and Matt Malloy.

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The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics.

When the word gets out that Dean isn't liberal - and in fact is quite conservative - on fiscal issues, he'll pick up more McCain support. On fiscal issues, he's far to the right of Ted Kennedy.

This went from being a standard funeral to being an all-star game of American politics.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.