Gail Collins on National Politics; The Alternate Realities of America

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 16, 2017

Coming up on today's show:

  • Gail Collins, New York Times op-ed columnist and the author of As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda (Liveright, 2013), talks about current political news from Washington.
  • Brooke Gladstone, host and managing editor of WNYC's On the Media and the author of The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time (Workman Publishing Company, 2017), talks about fake news, political bubbles and what lies behind the blatant falsehoods of the Trump administration.

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