#AskTheMayor; End of Session Politics; Russia Games America's Identity Driven Politics; Top Checkouts and What to Read Now
The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 21, 2018
Coming up on today's show:
- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Domenico Montanaro, lead political editor and digital audience at NPR , talks about this week in Congress, plus other national news.
- Thomas Edsall, New York Times columnist, and Briahna Gray, senior politics editor at The Intercept, discuss the Russia disinformation campaign strategy to divide Americans along racial lines and what it says about American identity politics.
- Lynn Lobash, assistant director of readers services at the New York Public Library, and Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation, talk about favorite books of the year, including the NYPL's top 2018 checkouts across the system, and help listeners with book recommendations for new reads or ideas on what books to give as gifts.
