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30 Issues In 30 Days

The Brian Lehrer Show looks beyond sound bites, and poll numbers, to inform voters on the race for control of congress and New York State in 2006

In the six week run up to the November elections, we’ll tackle an issue a day for 30 consecutive programs. Some issues will surround the race for New York Governor, but most will be relevant to the really big question facing our nation: Which party really deserves to control congress? Brian Lehrer has issues, and we know you do too. So let’s get to it: 30 Issues in 30 Days.

See a list of the issues

30 Issues in 30 Days, Issue 30: The Dwindling Middle Class

The Brian Lehrer Show

November 03, 2006

Andrea Batista Schlesinger, executive director of the Drum Major Institute
and
Stephen Rose, labor economist specializing in issues related to job quality, stability, earnings, and inequality
- is the middle class disappearing, and which party is better equipped to deal with it?

30 Issues in 30 Days: Is Polarization Inevitable in American Politics?

The Brian Lehrer Show

November 02, 2006

Juan Williams, senior correspondent for National Public Radio and author, Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It (Crown, 2006)
and
Robert Putnam, professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and author, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (in Paperback, Touchstone Books, 2001) and Better Together: Restoring the American Community (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
- discuss the level of political polarization in the U.S. and how it will effect the mid-term elections

30 Issues: Are All Politics National?

The Brian Lehrer Show

November 01, 2006

Dick Zimmer, former Congressman (R-NJ-12th District) and lawyer with Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher
and
Charles Rangel , Congressman (D-NY-15th District-Upper Manhattan)
- discuss whether Iraq and other national issues will prove Tip O'Neill wrong in 2006.

30 Issues in 30 Days: Should the Military be Privatized?

The Brian Lehrer Show

October 31, 2006

Doug Brooks, president of the International Peace Operations Association (an association of private security contractors)
and
Robert Young Pelton, author, Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (Crown, 2006)
- debate the use of private security firms by the U.S. military

30 Issues in 30 Days: Reforming Albany

The Brian Lehrer Show

October 30, 2006

Seymour P. Lachman, former New York State Senator, professor at Adelphi University and author, with Robert Pollner, Three Men in a Room: The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse (The New Press, 2006)
and
Suzanne Novak, deputy director of the Democracy Project at the Brennan Center of Justice
- everything you want to know about the way New York State is run

The Brennan Center’s Unfinished Business: New York State Legislative Reform 2006 Update

Three Men in a Room is available for purchase at Amazon.com

30 Issues in 30 Days: The Cost of Higher Education

The Brian Lehrer Show

October 27, 2006

Jeff Selingo, editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education
and
Sandi Baum, senior policy analyst for the College Board and professor of Economics at Skidmore College
- analyze how either party would work on the cost of higher education

30 Issues in 30 Days: Gay Marriage in New Jersey

The Brian Lehrer Show

October 26, 2006

Tom Moran, political columnist at the Newark Star Ledger
and
William Eskridge, John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale and co-author with Darren Spedale, Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse? (Oxford University Press, 2006)
- on the New Jersey Supreme Court decision on gay marriage
and
Richard A. Merkt (R-25), New Jersey Assemblyman and Assembly Parliamentarian
- says the Justices who voted for Gay Marriage should be impeached
and
Reed Gusciora (D-15), New Jersey Assemblyman and Assistant Majority Leader
- is in favor of the Supreme Court's decision

30 Issues: Is Either Party Weak on Terror?

The Brian Lehrer Show

October 25, 2006

Jerrold Nadler , U.S. Congressman (D-NY-8th District-Manhattan & Brooklyn)
and
J. Michael Barrett, fellow in Homeland Security at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Policing Terrorism, former analyst with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Department and co-author, Securing Global Transportation Networks (McGraw Hill Professional, 2006)
- offer two views on political parties and homeland security

30 Issues in 30 Days: Investigate? Impeach?

The Brian Lehrer Show

October 24, 2006

Elizabeth Holtzman, former Congresswoman and author, The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens (Nation Books 2006)
- on whether George W. Bush should be investigated and impeached, and how it can be done
and
Mike Isikoff, investigative reporter, Newsweek and co-author with David Corn, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War (Crown 2006)
- discusses whether or not the Democrats will investigate or impeach the President if they gain a majority in Congress
and
Dave Mejias , candidate for Congress running against Peter King in New York's Third Congressional District
- says that if the Democrats take the House they should focus on the issues and not impeaching the president

The Impeachment of George W. Bush is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Hubris is available for purchase at Amazon.com

30 Issues in 30 Days: Universal Health Care

The Brian Lehrer Show

October 23, 2006

Marisa Acocella Marchetto, cancer survivor, author of the graphic memoir, Cancer Vixen: A True Story (Knopf, 2006)
- tells her story discovering getting diagnosed with breast cancer without health insurance
and
Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University
- makes the case for universal health care
and
Dr. David Gratzer, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, author of The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (Encounter Books, October 2006)
- thinks universal health care is a bad idea

online version of Cancer Vixen: A True Story

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