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The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, August 08, 2006
  • Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) laughs while campaigning on August 6, 2006
    Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) laughs while campaigning on August 6, 2006 (Photo by Bob Falcetti/Getty Images)

    Dis-Connecticut

    Senator Joe Lieberman meets challenger Ned Lamont in Connecticut’s Democratic primary -- an election that both parties are watching to gauge the effect of the Iraq War on the electorate. Connecticut Democrats have a chance to call in and register their votes in a Brian Lehrer Show informal, unofficial, thoroughly unscientific exit poll. Plus, What Have We Learned about memorials and memorializing since 9/11? and what do you wish you'd spent more time doing?

Dis-Connecticut

Michael Tomasky, executive editor of The American Prospect magazine
- discusses the Connecticut primary and whether Joe Lieberman can connect with the electorate

Gaging Joementum

Sue Haigh, Connecticut political reporter for the Associated Press
-assesses voter turnout in Norwich, Connecticut
and
Susan Bysiewicz, Connecticut Secretary of State.

Un Exit Poll

Connecticut Democrats call in for an unofficial, unscientific exit poll to say whom they voted for in today's primary: Senator Joe Lieberman of challenger Ned Lamont

What Have We Learned: Memorial

James E. Young, Ground Zero Memorial Jurist, Professor and Chair of the Department of Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and author, At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press, 2002)
and
Michael J. Lewis, teaches at Williams College, and author, American Art and Architecture(Thames & Hudson, 2006)
and
Paul Goldberger,Dean of Parsons School of Design and the architecture critic for the New Yorker and author, Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York(Random House, 2004)
-on the process of memorializing and the Ground Zero Memorial

I Wish I'd . . .

Listeners call in to answer the "deathbed" question: What do you wish you'd spent more time doing?

Step One: The Brainstorm

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Digesting Politics

A weekly podcast with Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein

New Episode Posted 8/21
Eavesdrop on Andrea Bernstein and Brian Lehrer, two of the most political savvy minds around, as they eat lunch and break down the week’s political activities.

Slideluck Potshow

The Brian Lehrer Show

Check out our contribution to the recent Slideluck Potshow, an event where folks share their love of food and photos!

ICANN, You Can…

Web Exclusive

Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), on their recent decision to offer more top-level domain names.

Mixed Up

The Brian Lehrer Show

We discuss the implications of our mixed-race future and how Barack Obama's candidacy has changed the discussion about mixed-race identity.