Listen to the recording of this intimate session on democracy, elections, debates, and bipartisanship.

n this dramatic election season, we are fortunate to have former Steve Israel as one of the thoughtful, experiences, and engaging political voices to help us understand, inform, and parse the conversations, debates, and yelling that characterize this country’s upcoming milestone.

From his biography: “ Former Congressman Steve Israel left Capitol Hill – unindicted and undefeated – to pursue a career as a writer. In addition to writing two critically acclaimed satires of Washington, he heads the non-partisan Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs in New York City. Israel was a Member of Congress for sixteen years. He left in 2017, having served as House Democrats chief political strategist between 2011-2015 as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. President Bill Clinton called him “one of the most thoughtful Members of Congress.” Which, Israel states, isn’t really saying much at all.”