Monday Morning Politics; Subway Breakdowns; 100 Years of Presidents & Labor

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 27, 2025
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Coming up on today's show:

  • Jill Colvin, national political reporter for The Associated Press, talks about the latest national political news.
  • Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom talks about the Gothamist series "State of Collapse."
  • Joe Biden called himself "the most pro-labor President in American history," and National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo was key to his enforcement efforts. As an administration with a much different posture on labor shapes up, Dan Kaufman, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018), looks back through a century of presidents and their relationships with labor.

 

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