Episode #07123

Ken Burns discusses the unforeseen consequences of Prohibition and the political and economic shifts that led to its end. (06:24)

Tags:  Ken Burns,  interviews,  documentaries,  movies,  Prohibition,  history,  alcohol,  laws,  20s,  30s,  crime,  Great Depression,  Constitution,  organized crime,  alcoholism,  NAACP,  Ku Klux Klan,  morality,  culture,  unions,  immigration,  discrimination,  business,  economy,  men/women,  sex,  health,  family,  George Clooney,  penises,  cars/trucks,  Heroe$ Crawl

Episode #07119

The fastest way to start a European war is to piss off the Germans, so America should kick them in the schnitzels to jumpstart a World War II-style economic recovery. (04:27)

Tags:  Europe,  European Union,  economy,  debt,  Greece,  Germany,  Nazi,  wars,  Adolf Hitler,  World War II,  history,  international affairs,  America,  Great Depression,  England,  college,  asses,  lookin' good,  Angela Merkel,  Silvio Berlusconi,  sex,  Heroe$ Crawl,  Belgium,  work/office,  Poland,  mythology,  photos,  Incredible Hulk,  balls,  recession,  labor

Episode #07115

The New York Times' Paul Krugman talks about the Lesser Depression and the confidence fairy's effect on the American economy. (04:32)

Tags:  Paul Krugman,  appearances,  business,  unemployment,  economy,  government,  Great Depression,  right-wing,  Nobel Prize,  kids,  Shirley Temple Black,  movies,  iPad,  New York Times,  supernatural,  Heroe$ Crawl,  labor

Episode #06088

Paul Krugman says giving money to the unemployed is a very fast, effective way of creating jobs. (07:23)

Tags:  Paul Krugman,  interviews,  unemployment,  Republicans,  filibusters,  Democrats,  insurance,  puking,  debt,  money,  economy,  Great Depression,  history,  government,  Europe,  fireside,  health

Episode #05105

David Wondrich serves Stephen drinks from the Great Depression and the Civil War, and invents a Colbert Bump cocktail. (04:57)

Tags:  David Wondrich,  interviews,  Joe Biden,  alcohol,  Killer,  history,  Great Depression,  Prohibition,  Civil War,  Colbert Bump,  books,  inventions,  founding fathers,  facial hair

Episode #05092

Paul Krugman says the stimulus package is enough to help, but not enough to cure the economic crisis. (05:44)

Tags:  Paul Krugman,  interviews,  books,  economy,  New York Times,  stimulus package,  money,  Obama administration,  unemployment,  Goldman Sachs,  business,  Great Depression

Episode #05072

Byron Dorgan doesn't believe in the kind of banking modernization that caused the Great Depression. (05:57)

Tags:  Byron Dorgan,  interviews,  books,  economy,  North Dakota,  friend of the show,  money,  Great Depression,  history,  government

Episode #05037

Jonathan Chait believes the New Deal was successful because it eased people's misery. (05:21)

Tags:  interviews,  Franklin Delano Roosevelt,  Great Depression,  Jimmy,  economy,  unemployment,  history,  accept your apology,  Barack Obama,  World War II,  wars,  conservative

Episode #04140

More Republicans endorse Barack Obama. Great, now Republicans will have to suppress their own turnout. (00:36)

Tags:  intro,  Republicans,  Barack Obama,  Great Depression,  anniversaries,  stocks,  David Simon

Episode #04140

Historians admit that, while it was a depression, it was also great. (03:23)

Tags:  Was It Really That Bad?,  Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Great Depression,  economy,  anniversaries,  Indecision 2008,  Indecision,  elections

Episode #02066

Author Jonathan Alter calls Theodore Roosevelt the Bing Crosby of presidents; Stephen calls George W. Bush the FDR of today. (6:30)

Tags:  interviews,  Jonathan Alter,  George W. Bush,  books,  Franklin Delano Roosevelt,  Great Depression,  World War II,  money,  media