30 Issues in 30 Days: Is There A Liberal and Conservative Way to Fight a Pandemic?; How to Vote in a Pandemic - a podcast by WNYC

On today's show, a rebroadcast of last night's call-in special America Are We Ready? co-hosted by Brian Lehrer and political science professor, Christina Greer, where they launched The Brian Lehrer Show's election-year series 30 Issues in 30 days! 

You'll hear:

Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) in Austin, TX and Forbes' policy editor, health care policy advisor to the Romney presidential campaign in 2012, and Leana Wen, M.D., emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University, contributing columnist for The Washington Post, and former health commissioner of Baltimore, discuss balancing the risks of reopening against the risks of community spread of COVID-19.
Asma Khalid, political correspondent for NPR and co-host of The NPR Politics Podcast, discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic, and the

Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program, talks about the voting (and counting) itself and how the pandemic is affecting pre-existing problems and creating others. 
Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones, covering voting rights and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, takes calls from listeners around the country about the voting situation in their state.
 candidates' approaches to it, could shape the election.

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