State of Change

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 8, 2012

On today’s show: journalists Bob Ingle and Michael Symons discuss the precipitous rise of New Jersey governor Chris Christie. Actors Nicole Ari Parker and Daphne Rubin-Vega, and director Emily Mann talk about the unorthodox revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Ethan Hawke discusses his role in a new thriller called “The Woman in the Fifth.” The New America Foundation’s Peter Bergen examines the Obama Administration’s acceleration of the drone war in Yemen for our latest Underreported segment. And then the scientist who discovered discoverer of a huge and baffling plankton bloom deep under Arctic ice explains its implications for climate change and the global ecosystem.

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