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The Unusual Swing States; The Ballot Questions NYC Voters Will See in November; 100 Years of 100 Things: School Culture Wars
The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 23, 2024
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Coming up on today's show:
- J. Ann Selzer, political pollster who is the president of the Des Moines, Iowa-based polling firm Selzer & Company, and Alexandra Samuels, senior editor at Texas Monthly, talk about the latest polling in Iowa and Texas that show the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are narrowing, and talk about the issues that make the race competitive in their states.
- Sahalie Donaldson, City Hall reporter at City & State New York, talks about the ballot questions that will appear on New York City voters' ballots in November, and why a progressive group has formed to encourage people to vote "no" on certain measures.
- For the centennial series "100 Years of 100 Things," Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of history of education at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of several books, including Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools (University of Chicago Press, September 2022), traces the history of the so-called "culture wars" in public education, from the Scopes trial, to religion in schools, sex ed and the controversies of today over critical race theory, masks during COVID and more.
