Politics

Slate's Jacob Weisberg: Barack Obama's Moment

By Madeleine Brand

Published July 26, 2004 at 10:00 PM MDT

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Slate editor Jacob Weisberg talks with NPR's Madeleine Brand about Tuesday night's lineup at the Democratic National Convention. The star speaker is slated to be young Senate hopeful Barack Obama, currently a state senator from Illinois.

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Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).