Imagining Booker's White House Office On Racism; The Cost of Climate Resilience; #CoveringClimateNow: Naomi Klein on Green New Deal; Anti-Semitism Here

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 17, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Angela Glover Blackwell, founder in residence of PolicyLink, and Ben Hecht, president and CEO of Living Cities, discuss a policy recently raised by candidate and Senator Corey Booker: an office of policy experts, based out of the White House, expressly and exclusively dedicated to efforts to fight racism.

  • Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer discusses the proposed East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, which would close the East River Park for a few years in hopes of creating climate resiliency buffers for the Lower East Side.

  • Naomi Klein, syndicated columnist for The Nation, senior correspondent for The Intercept and the author of author of Shock Doctrine, No Logo and most recently, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (Simon & Schuster, 2019), explains why she thinks the behemoth proposal is a crucial and urgent necessity. 

  • Bari Weiss, staff writer and editor for the opinion section of The New York Times, and the author of How To Fight Anti-Semitism (Crown, 2019), warns American Jews that the threat of Antisemitism is real and present.

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