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Feet In Two Worlds

Aswini Anburajan, a reporter and an editor for Feet in Two Worlds, a project of the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School, discusses the campaign and the Latino vote with Pilar Marrero, a reporter and columnist for the La Opinión, a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Los Angeles.

Anburajan and Marrero will also participate at a town hall meeting today that will discuss what the top issues and priorities for today’s immigrant voters are right now.

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Fact Check

Politifact's Bill Adair, the weekly guest for the month of September, brings his Truth-O-Meter to fact-check some recent campaign claims.

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Children in Need

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, talks about her new book, The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting A Course for the Next Generation, where she condemns government support of the nation's richest citizens and calls for action to help millions of children in poverty.

Edelman will be leading the worship service at Riverside Church on Sunday, Sept. 28.

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30 Issues: Partisanship in Washington

Julian Zelizer a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and co-editor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, talks about the history of partisanship in Washington over the last 30 decades.

Then, New York State Assemblyman Mike Gianaris D-36, representing Queens, talks about partisanship, representing the Obama campaign, while Jeff Golkin, executive director for Citizens for McCain in New Jersey, discusses the McCain campaign.

Then, Why the Northeast is so blue. Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like- Minded America is Tearing us Apart, talks about why the northeast leans to the Democrats.

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