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This has got to be one of the more fraught election cycles in our lifetime. Certainly a roller coaster counting process. And still unclear, a full clarifying picture of what is happening down ballot for several weeks. We have assembled a stellar team to help us navigate a couple of key questions. What happened, and why . Was there an expected gap between expectations and eventual results . If so, what was the cause of that . How are the two parties, democrats and republicans, now going to move forward in terms both their program, their policies, but also how they position themselves electorally. With that, let me turn the mic over to my coconspirator in this endeavor, ellen toscano. Ellen . Hello. I am the cofounder of the inside american politics series. Hostedfor 10 years and last year and this year by the center at nyu. We started the annual conference in 2008 following the historic election of barack obama as president of the united states. Now, we come together to discuss the elec
Representatives about how to deal with either one and well show you how women in afghanistan are pushing ahead with their own business. Im chris welcome to the program the u. S. President himself is one of more than 7000000 americans to have contracted kovac 19 and amid continuing uncertainty over his own personal health but the prognosis for the u. S. Economy remains anything but clear a new survey from the National Association for business economics paints and indeed bleak picture more than half of the economists polled believe the biggest risk facing the u. S. Economy is the pandemic and the possibility of further lock downs and restrictions as cases continue to rise its not the only threat though one in 5 economists think the biggest problem is the failure of republicans and democrats to Work Together to agree aid packages for Unemployed People and stricken businesses the overall picture is that the u. S. Economy is expected to contract by 4. 3 percent this year with the majority o
A motorcade ride that many say breaks the code that 19 protocols and britain struggle to coltan influx of migrants crossing over from france is putting pressure on the government which promised to take back control of the borders after breakfast and. Im sara kelly welcome to the program the 2020 nobel prizes kicked off a short while ago with the naming of the winners in the fields of physiology or medicine this year it is a trio of. Harvey j. Alter Michael Hotel and charles am rice the panel at the institute in stockholm awarded them the prestigious prize for their discovery of the hepatitis c. Virus the medicine prize carries a tickler sick. If it can see this year with the corona virus pandemic highlighting the importance of medical research for societies and economies around the world and well have more on this in just a moment with our colleague Derek Williams from d. W. Science but 1st lets take a look at a situation in the United States there are mixed messages coming from washin