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Polling and Democracy
Do polls affect public opinion as much as measure it? Then what happened in New Hampshire? Mark Blumenthal from pollster.com discusses how polling affects democracy. Also, can Bush bring peace to the Middle East on a deadline?
Are You the One? Polling
Mark Blumenthal, who runs the website, Pollster.com, looks at why pollsters get it wrong, how polling affects democracy, and the results of our polling project with The Huffington Post.
Race Matters
Daily News columnist Errol Louis and Politico senior political writer Ben Smith look at how racial politics will impact the presidential race.
Deadline: Peace Accord
David Makovsky, a senior fellow At The Washington Institute and Director of their Project on the Middle East Peace Process, and Ghaith al-Omari, advocacy director at the American Task Force on Palestine, discuss the latest news from the Middle East.
Reading with Pictures
Michael Bitz, who runs the Comic Book Project at the Teachers College at Columbia University, and Francoise Mouly, the art editor at The New Yorker and the editorial director of TOON Books, discuss a new curriculum that uses Comic books as teaching tools.
Plus, Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, weighs in on the merits of the image as instructor.
The View from the Ethnic Press: Hispanics
In the first in a series of discussions with journalists from New York's ethnic press, El Diario/La Prensa reporter Lorenzo Morales addresses the perspective of New York's Hispanic population on the presidential election.
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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