The Brian Lehrer Show
Public/Private
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Senators Obama and McCain once agreed to a publicly financed general election. What role does public money play--and do they both still intend to keep that pledge? Also: the author of the new book Drifting Towards Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York talks about the lives of the men he profiled.
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Castro Resigns
Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archives, an independent research organization that advocates the publication of classified documents, talks about Fidel Castro's resignation.
The Public Financing Debate in 08
New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller and Anthony Corrado, professor of government at Colby College, talk about public financing in the general election.
Love and Real Estate
Jhoanna Robledo covers real estate at New York Magazine. She looks at how New York's famously tight real estate affects New Yorkers' love lives.
Drifting Toward Love
Kai Wright, Brooklyn-based writer and editor and the author of Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
(Beacon, 2008), talks about the lives of three gay teenagers living in East New York.
Drifting Toward Love is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
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