TV Guide: Jonathan Alter

Video: msnbc tv: 'Magic number' on troops in Afghanistan?

MSNBC — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Nov. 9: Newsweek's Jonathan Alter joins the Morning Joe panel to discuss the potential strategies the Obama administration is considering on Afghanistan.

Video: Missing Groom

CBS — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

A bride is left at the alter while two of her groomsmen are found covered in blood laying in a fountain.

Video: Rio Defeats Chicago for Olympics

Hulu — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Oct. 2: Newsweek s Jonathan Alter talks about Chicago s failure to bring the Olympics torch back to the U.S. and whether this is a reflection of the world s declining view of the country.

Video: GOP Can't Keep Up

Hulu — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Sept. 24: Newsweek s Jonathan Alter discusses new Republican accusations that President Barack Obama is trying to multi-task too many things at once.

Video: No Child Left Behind the President’s Speech

Hulu — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Sept. 4: Newsweek s Jonathan Alter talks about the pleas from some members of the GOP to keep children home from school on the day President Barack Obama gives a speech. Has the rhetoric gone beyond paranoia and become detrimental to education?

Video: Will the President's Health Care Strategy Shift Work?

Hulu — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Sept. 2: Democrats seem to be more frustrated by the president's continued efforts at bipartisanship which appear to have given him zero return. Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist for Newsweek, talks to msnbc s David Shuster and Tamron Hall.

Video: Mon, Aug 24, 2009

Hulu — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Season 2, Episode 574: Guests Tracy Byrnes, Ron Geraci, Chris Cotter, Father Jonathan Morris and Dr. Gary Alter get all wee-weed up!

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0500

A contemporary retelling of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel that updates the story with modern technology. While researching a cure for cancer, Dr. Jekyll creates a computer-generated alter ego, Mr. Hyde. This uncontrollable creature of primordial instincts leads the doctor on a path that ultimately destroys his creator.

Video: Obama Gets Tough with Republicans

Hulu — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0500

July 16: Newsweek s Jonathan Alter discusses President Barack Obama s response to Republicans who continually criticize his stimulus plan.

Video: FDR's 'Triumph Of Hope'

CBS News — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter speaks to Harry Smith about his new book "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope," which explores Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency.

Video: Domestic Dispute Over Iranian Protests

Hulu — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0500

June 19: Newsweek s Jonathan Alter talks about the conflicting political reactions to how the U.S. government should address the situation in Iran.

Video: Obama's First 14 Mondays - Jonathan Alter

Colbert Nation — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Jonathan Alter tells Stephen how Obama's first 14 Mondays stack up against FDR's.

Video: Intro - 5/17/06

Colbert Nation — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Stephen profiles Teddy Roosevelt, speaks with Jonathan Alter about America's greatest president and calls off the New Deal.

Video: Intro - 10/23/08

Colbert Nation — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Who's threatening our jobs? Wait, people still have jobs?

Video: Jonathan Alter

Colbert Nation — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Author Jonathan Alter calls Theodore Roosevelt the Bing Crosby of presidents; Stephen calls George W. Bush the FDR of today.

Video: Jonathan Alter

Colbert Nation — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Jonathan Alter explains Barack Obama wants to redraw the social contract the way FDR did.

Video: Obama's 'Defining Moment'

CBS News — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Author Jonathan Alter talks to Harry Smith about what Barack Obama could take from FDR's first 100 days, after Obama admitted to reading Alter's "The Defining Moment."

Video: Alter rises to Olbermann’s defense

MSN Video — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Oct. 24: Friend of Countdown, Jonathan Alter, defended Keith Olbermann to Stephen Colbert while on his show to promote his new book

Video: Biography - Caroline Kennedy: Youthful Ambition

Biography — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:00:00 -0500

In this biography video we're introduced to John F. Kennedy?s daughter, Caroline Kennedy. As a young adult, Caroline hoped to become a reporter. But she realized early-on that as a Kennedy, she would always be the story.

Video: Batten Down the Hatches

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500

It's the pre-dawn hours of October 17th and the boats of the King crab fishing fleet are enjoying rare, calm weather on the Bering Sea. Captain Eric of the Rollo knows that out here you don?t sleep through good weather. He wakes his crew to begin dropping their first pots of the season. Though the weather is cooperating momentarily, Captain Sig Hansen of the Northwestern receives word of an impending storm and is faced with a decision: to run or to fish. The decision is not as difficult for the captain of the Cornelia Marie. With a head gasket blown they are limping back to Dutch Harbor on one engine for repairs, but the storm is nipping at their heels. Getting caught one engine down in this squall is a recipe for disaster. It is a different story on the Time Bandit. Captain Jonathan wont let the weather alter his plans, he has decided to fish through the monster, which is predicted to bring with it 50 mph winds and 30-foot seas. Sig has finally come to a decision; he will steam to the