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New Republic Editor Frank Foer interviews Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey on Barack Obama, climate change, and the benefits of Joe Biden as a Vice Presidential nominee. FORA.tv coverage of the DNC: http://for​a.tv/topic​/democrati​c_conventi​on The New Republic on FORA.tv: http://fora.tv/partner/new_republic ----- Edward John "Ed" Markey (born July 11, 1946) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1976, representing the 7th District of Massachusetts. Markey is the Dean of the Massachusetts House delegation and the New England House delegation as well. He is also the third longest serving member of Congress from New England, behind Ted Kennedy and Patrick Leahy. 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 and 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.