Ask the Mayor; Davos and Tariffs; The 'Troubling Origins' of Bones at the American Museum of Natural History; 'The Future Is History' in Russia

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 26, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.

  • Karl Vick, TIME editor-at-large, and Ana Swanson, trade and international economics for The New York Times talks about President Trump’s visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland as he renews his "America First" agenda, imposing tariffs on washing machines and solar imports.

  • Daniel Gross, web contributor to The New Yorker, and Kavemuii Murangi, education researcher and Herero descendant, discuss how the American Museum of Natural History obtained skeletons of Herero people of Namibia - who were murdered in a genocide around the turn of the last century - and what should happen to the remains now.

  • Masha Gessen, staff writer at The New Yorker, visiting professor at Amherst College, winner of the 2017 National Book Award, and author of The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Riverhead Books, 2017), talks about her book, which traces the lives of four people growing up in post-Soviet Russia and follows the nation's democratic potential and fall towards autocracy.

  • Cory Booker, U.S. Senator (D-NJ) , talks about his work on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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