BusinessWeek senior writer Diane Brady, and political reporter for Roll Call David Drucker, discuss the latest news, including the deficit reduction commission and trial of Charlie Rangel.

New York State Senators Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan, 26th district), and Martin Golden (R-22nd district, Brooklyn; Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, Gravesend and parts of Sheepshead Bay, Borough Park and Midwood), discuss delays in determining party control of the New York State Senate.

Tom Moran, political columnist for the Star-Ledger, discusses news in New Jersey relating to Governor Chris Christie, including capping public employee salaries, climate change and the ARC tunnel.

Reza Aslan, associate professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and author of No God But God, discusses the new anthology he edited, Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East.

→ Wednesday: Reza Aslan at Barnard Hall: "Park 51 Reevaluated: Reza Aslan on Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism"

→ Thursday: Reza Aslan reading at Asia Society: "Tablet and Pen, A New Anthology of Literature from the Middle East"

The president's deficit commission outline includes tort reform as a means to cut medical expenses. Philip K. Howard, founder and chair of Common Good and the author of Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law, talks about his alternative solution: medical courts.

Roll Call 's Associate Editor Paul Singer covers today's ethics hearings for Congressman Charles Rangel.

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