Shows featuring James Steele

Contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Steele and his reporting partner Donald Barlett have won virtually every major national journalism award, including two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine Awards. Their latest book is The Betrayal of the American Dream.

  • Part 2: Barlett and Steele on Media, Govt. Failure to Hold Wall St. Accountable for Financial Crimes
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    In part two of our interview with the investigative duo James Steele and Don Barlett, they talk about the media’s failure to hold Wall Street or politicians accountable for financial crimes and mismanagement — topics covered in their new book, "The Betrayal of the American Dream." They also discuss attacks...
    August 01, 2012 | Blog Post

  • Pulitzer-Winning Reporting Duo Don Barlett and James Steele on "The Betrayal of the American Dream" (Part 1)

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    The famed award-winning investigative reporting team of Donald Barlett and James Steele have just published a new book, "The Betrayal of the American Dream," a followup to their landmark bestseller, "America: What Went Wrong?" As Republicans and Democrats continue disputing who should bear the brunt of the...
    July 30, 2012 | Story

  • Deadly Medicine: FDA Fails to Regulate Rapidly Growing Industry of Overseas Drug Testing

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    Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly conducting clinical trials for new drugs outside the U.S., usually in countries where regulations are less stringent and trials are much cheaper, often leading to deadly results. Twenty years ago, only 271 trials of drugs intended for use by Americans were conducted overseas. By 2008,...
    December 17, 2010 | Story

  • Pulitzer Winners Jim Steele and Don Barlett: Geithner Tax Troubles Far More Egregious Than Daschle’s

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    Despite problems with unpaid taxes, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was confirmed last week, but Tom Daschle, President Obama’s nominee for Health and Human Services, had to withdraw his nomination for his own tax lapses. We speak to the Pulitzer-winning reporting team Jim Steele and Don Barlett on the breakdown of America’s tax system — and why they say Geithner’s lapses were far...
    February 06, 2009 | Story

  • Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear

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    Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics — ruthless legal battles against small farmers — is its decades-long history of toxic contamination. We speak to James Steele, contributing editor at Vanity Fair. [includes rush transcript]
    May 06, 2008 | Story

  • "Mr. Greenspan is Flat Wrong": Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists Respond to Alan Greenspan’s Claim that He Didn’t Know about Federal Reserve’s Role in Iraq’s Missing Billions

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    Last month, during an appearance on Democracy Now!, former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan questioned a report in Vanity Fair that $12 billion was shipped from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to Iraq, of which $9 billion cannot be accounted for. Today investigative journalists Donald Barlett and James Steele respond to Greenspan. [includes rush transcript]
    October 09, 2007 | Story

  • Billions Over Baghdad: How Did $9B in Cash Airlifted From the Fed to Iraq Go Missing?

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    One month after the invasion of Iraq, the United States began airlifting planeloads of cash to Baghdad. Between April 2003 and June 2004, a total of $12 billion dollars of US currency was shipped to Iraq where it was to be dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority for reconstruction. To date, at least $9 billion dollars cannot be accounted for. In a startling new expose in Vanity Fair, Pulitzer...
    September 12, 2007 | Story

  • Indian Casinos: Who Gets the Money?
    The rich get richer.
    Fraud, corruption, intimidation.
    Buying politicians.
    The white man wins again.
    December 11, 2002 | Story

  • NEW YORK TORTURE
    WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE AND DESCRIPTIONS OF A POLICE TORTURE IN THIS SEGMENT OF THE SHOW.
    August 14, 1997 | Story

  • CAMPAIGN FINANCE HEARINGS
    The Senate campaign finance hearings yesterday established the first direct link between foreign money and a contribution to the Democratic National Committee.
    July 16, 1997 | Story