30 Issues in 30 Days: Fighting Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Bias; Grandparents as Paid Labor; Nobel Peace Prize Winner

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 10, 2025
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On today's show: 

  • Daisy Khan, founder and executive director of the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE) and the author of Born with Wings: The Spiritual Journey of a Modern Muslim Woman (Spiegel & Grau, 2018), and Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, discuss how to fight both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia at a time of polarization over the Mideast in the context of concrete policy proposals from the New York City mayoral candidates, Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa.
  • Marina Lopes, author of Please Yell at My Kids (GCP/Balance, 2025), talks about her story in The Atlantic suggesting American parents look at the way childcare works in Singapore where grandparents are frequently primary caregivers and get paid for the work.
  • Gideon Rose, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the former editor of Foreign Affairs and author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, 2010), talks about the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, and related news of the day.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

 

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