The New Republic's Frank Foer FORAcast: Ed Markey

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Partner:: New Republic
Location:: The New Republic
Denver, CO
Event Date:: 08.25.08
Speakers:: Franklin Foer,; Ed Markey
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Summary: Frank Foer (Editor, The New Republic) talks with Representative Ed Markey about the issues that candidate Obama needs to address in framing up the US agenda for next year: the economy, national security, climate change, foreign relations ---- and asks Rep. Markey his opinion of the Biden pick for VP.

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Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer is an American political journalist and the editor of The New Republic.

Foer graduated from Columbia in 1996. Before joining The New Republic, Foer was a frequent contributor to the online magazine Slate.

His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Spin, U.S. News & World Report, Lingua Franca, The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, New York and Foreign Policy. In 2004 he published his first book, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization.

Ed Markey

Ed Markey is a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Malden, Middlesex County, Mass., July 11, 1946; attended Immaculate Conception Grammar School, Malden, Mass.; graduated from Malden Catholic High School, Malden, Mass., 1964; B.A., Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., 1968; J.D., Boston College Law School, Chestnut Hill, Mass., 1972; lawyer, private practice; United States Army Reserve, 1968-1973; member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1973-1976; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Torbert H. Macdonald, reelected to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (November 2, 1976-present).