We’ll continue our 2006 election series “30 Issues in 30 Days” with issue 7: Whatever happened to the Social Security debate? We still don’t know if baby boomers will get the benefits they’ve been promised or if taxes, or the retirement age, will have to go up, and neither party wants to talk about it. Plus: Bestselling authors Michael Isikoff, and David Corn, discuss their new book Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Pride Before a Fall
David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation and co-author
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Mike Isikoff, investigative reporter, Newsweek and co-author, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War (Crown 2006)
-talk about the run up to the war in Iraq
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Mike Isikoff, investigative reporter, Newsweek and co-author, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War (Crown 2006)
-talk about the run up to the war in Iraq
Borough of Dreams: Queens
Andrew Beveridge, Sociology Professor at Queens College
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Felicia Persaud, Editor at Caribbean World News Network
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Leroy G. Comrie Jr., District 27 City Councilmember
-talk about the 2005 census figures showing that median black incomes have surpassed median white incomes in ...
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Felicia Persaud, Editor at Caribbean World News Network
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Leroy G. Comrie Jr., District 27 City Councilmember
-talk about the 2005 census figures showing that median black incomes have surpassed median white incomes in ...
30 Issues In 30 Days: Social Security
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Research Policy
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Michael Tanner, director of the Cato Institute's Health and Welfare Studies Program
-talk about current Social Security policy
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Michael Tanner, director of the Cato Institute's Health and Welfare Studies Program
-talk about current Social Security policy
Paging Congress
James Kotecki, former Congressional Page (2003), senior at Georgetown University majoring in International Politics, intern at the Cypress Group doing research on political risk for hedge fund traders
- on his experience as a Congressional page
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Julian Zelizer, professor of history at ...
- on his experience as a Congressional page
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Julian Zelizer, professor of history at ...
Mike Isikoff
Mike Isikoff, investigative reporter at Newsweek, talks politics and about the new book he co-authored with David Corn, Hubris; The Inside Story of ...
Required Reading: October 3, 2006
North Korea to Conduct Nuclear Test, Government Says (Bloomberg)
Pressure Grows for Republicans Over Foley Scandal (NY Times)
Americans Win Nobel Prize in Physics (Washington Post)