Monday Morning Politics; Malcolm Gladwell on Stranger Danger; CDC Says Stop Vaping; Microsoft's President: The Responsibilities of Tech
The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 9, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Cenk Uygur, host and founder of The Young Turks and co-founder of the Justice Democrats, previews the next debate among the ten qualifying Democrats and talks about the moderate vs progressive divide in the party.
- Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer at The New Yorker, host of the podcast "Revisionist History", and the author of many books, including his latest Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), examines some recent controversies and tragedies where he finds a common thread -- our inability to understand strangers. From Bernie Madoff to Sandra Bland, he argues we need to do better.
- The CDC suggested that people stop vaping until public health officials can get a better handle on an epidemic of lung disease that has sickened as many as 450 people, with three deaths, spanning over 30 states. Ana Ibarra, journalist covering health care for Kaiser Health News, answers your questions and brings the latest on what we know, and what we still don't understand.
- Brad Smith, Microsoft president and the author (with Carol Ann Browne) of Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age (Penguin Press, 2019), argues that the leaders of the tech companies need to take responsibility for the downsides of their products, as well as profits.
