NY Early Voting; Mussolini and Lessons Learned; COVID's Disparate Impacts; Meet the Candidates: NY 2nd Congressional District
The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 28, 2020
Coming up on today's show:
- Over 300,000 New York City residents have already voted early, but it's not without its problems. Brigid Bergin, WNYC City Hall and politics reporter, talks about how the much-criticized Board of Elections is handling the surge of voters in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
- On the anniversary of Mussolini's 1922 March on Rome that signaled the start of Fascist rule, Kenneth C. Davis, author of the "Don't Know Much About History" series and most recently, Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy (Henry Holt, 2020), examines that history for lessons for today.
- Mary Bassett, director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, as well as professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and former commissioner of the New York City Department of Health, talks about how to fight the disparate impact in who gets sick, and who dies, from COVID-19.
- With Rep. Peter King's retirement, there's an open race for his Long Island South Shore seat in Congress. First, Democrat Jackie Gordon, combat veteran and educator, and then, Republican Andrew Garbarino, New York Assembly Member, make their cases to the voters.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
