Good afternoon. My name is jerry fowler, and im a senior policy analyst here at the open society foundations, so im pleased to welcome you to this event thats hosted by open society and by our friends at politics to welcome you to this event by our friends at politics prose. And vera very proud actually while an open Society Fellow we are happy to make that contribution as an editor of the Washington Post will be interviewing and will say borer but i will tell you about caring and. Share reported for the Associated Press and her work has appeared in publications across the world. With the sarah reporters salon and has also made Television Appearances on international the works. With degrees from columbia and northwestern and a fulbright scholar in donna. She will interview bed for a while then there will be the question and answer period. So as you saw politics is a prose has copies of the books outside. While the book signing is going on simultaneously we will remove the chairs from t
I grew up with that feeling of infection, who cares i will take antibiotics. I dont need to live with that. Thats not going to be part of my life. Maybe that was wrong and i think we will have to adjust to this new reality as they start to stop working which has already happened one by one. Thank you all. [applause] if you wouldnt mind holding up your chair and you can get your book signed right up here and books are for sale at the front. When i tune in on the weekend usually it is offers and new releases. Watching on booktv is the best television for serious readers. They can have a longer conversation and delve into their subjects. Booktv weekends they bring you author after author thats worked by fascinating people. I like booktv and imf cspan and. This is booktv on cspan2. Here is our primetime lineup. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is jerry fowler and im here at the open Society Foundation pleased to welcome you to this event is hosted by the open society and o
This event that is hosted by open society and buyer friends at politics and prose. To hear about bens a new book, city of florence. We are very proud actually because been to part of the work for this book while he was an open Society Fellow and so we are happy to have made that particular contribution to the work. Were also pleased this afternoon to have karen who is an editor at the Washington Post and is going to be interviewing ben. She will say more about bens background but let me tell you about karen. Before joining the Washington Post she reported for the Associated Press from curacao and her work has appeared in publications across the world including, have a list your but i wont go through the whole thing, the sahara reporters, saline, morningside post, haitian morningside popes, haitian times, she is also made Television Appearances on a number of International Networks including mtv africa and al jazeera. She has degrees from columbia northwestern and was a fulbright schola
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is jerry fowler, and im a senior policy analyst here at the open Society Foundations, so im pleased to welcome you to this event thats hosted by open society and by our friends at politics and prose. To hear about ben rawlences new book, city of thorns. Were very proud, actually, because ben did part of the work for this book while he was an open society fellow, and so were happy to have made that particular contribution to the work. Were also pleased this afternoon to have karen atilla who is an editor at the Washington Post and who is going to be interviewing ben. Shell say a little bit more about bens background, but let me tell you about karen. She, before joining the Washington Post, reported for the Associated Press from cure sow, and her work has appeared in publications across the world including can i have a list here, i wont go through the whole thing but salon, the haitian times, morningside post. Shes also made Television Ap
Sputtering economy in congress and later, is karen bass the best person to give joe biden extra bounce to get elected . Ill talk to the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus october habout her status on the v. P. Short list. First, with 100 days to go and counting until the november election, the country is battling crisis on multiple fronts. Were continuing to see disturbing scenes from several cities including portland and seattle where Police Declared what is going on to be a riot. There is violence and the questions about the role federal agents are playing on the streets of the cities. This comes as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. There are now more than 4. 2 million cases here in the united states, more than 147,000 americans have now died in 18 states, set single day records for new cases this week. That is to say nothing of the millions of americans who are out of work and now looking to congress for additional aid and extra 600 in Unemployment Benefits is set to run out t