Monday Morning Politics; What's New in New York?; In Defense of Liberalism; How Fury Can Fuel the Fight for Reproductive Rights

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 20, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Shawna Thomas, VICE News Washington bureau chief discusses the latest political news out of Washington.
  • Brigid Bergin, WNYC's City Hall and politics reporter, and Ben Max, executive editor of Gotham Gazette and co-host of the Max &
    Murphy podcast, talk about what de Blasio's presidential bid means for NYC. Plus, the latest on city budget negotiations and the feedback deadline for the Charter Review Commission.
  • Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism (Basic Books, 2019), argues that "liberalism" is not a political ideology, but a way of life.
  • In the wake of Georgia and Alabama's abortion bans, more states announce their rollbacks on reproductive rights. Rebecca Traister writer-at-large for New York Magazine and the author of, most recently, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon & Schuster, 2018) talks about how angry women can channel their rage to fight back.

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