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Truth or Adair
Bill Adair of PolitiFact makes his last Thursday visit before the election to fact-check some candidate statements. And: on the second-to-last 30 Issues in 30 Days, issue 29: Pakistan and Afghanistan. Hear why former New York Mayor Ed Koch says the U.S. should pull out of Afghanistan before exiting Iraq.
This Friday's Wiki-produced 30 Issues in 30 Days segment is on Urban Policy: Who is the best President for NY and NJ?
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Let's Do the Numbers
Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, and Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin and Marshall College, talk about the latest poll numbers, particularly in the swing states.
The New Deal
Amity Shlaes, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, discusses Obama's television program last night, the New Deal, and the silver lining in the dismal consumer confidence numbers.
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Vikas Bajaj, New York Times reporter, discusses the bailout plan for homeowners currently under discussion.
Read Vikas Bajaj's article, "Government Said to Be Discussing Plan to Aid Homeowners"
Fact Check
Politifact's Bill Adair, the weekly guest until Election Day, brings his Truth-O-Meter to fact-check some recent campaign claims.
30 Issues: Pakistan and Afghanistan
Former New York mayor Ed Koch, now partner at Bryan Cave LLP and radio host, says the next president should pull out of Afghanistan before Iraq.
Then
Steve Coll, president and CEO of the New America Foundation, staff writer at the New Yorker Magazine and author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, with Barnett Rubin, director of studies and senior fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, and Tariq Ali, novelist, historian, one of New Left Review’s editors and the author of The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, will talk about what the next president faces in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Sabahat Ashraf, a writer/blogger who makes his living as a technical writer in Silicon Valley and covers events in Pakistan, and Sarah Chayes, founder of the Arghand Cooperative based in Kandahar and former NPR reporter, will talk about Afghan and Pakistani society.
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