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30 Issues: Policing; City Opera in Trouble; Global Poverty; Adam Curtis

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 27, 2013

The 30 Issues in 30 Days election series continues with a week of conversations about policing. New York State Senator Eric Adams and Pastor Gilford Monrose from East Flatbush discuss crime in the city; George Steel, general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera discusses their financial troubles; Vanity Fair contributing editor Nina Munk on her new book The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty and filmmaker Adam Curtis talks about this new collaboration with the band Massive Attack.

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