Politics and Principles

For more than three decades, Jim Lehrer has been one of the most respected voices in broadcast news—lauded as an “island of sanity in the madness of television news” by the American Journalism Review. As longtime anchor of the PBS NewsHour and as a moderator for 11 presidential candidate debates over the last six elections, Lehrer is uniquely qualified to set the stage for our examination of American politics and global engagement.