National Politics Roundup: NRA, Big Tech and Pelosi ; U.S. Border Patrol's Secret Facebook Group; On Evictions; What Art to See on Your NYC Staycation
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 3, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Tim Mak, NPR political reporter talks about his latest stories including a massive shakeup at the National Rifle Association and a shift in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's relationship with big tech as antitrust and privacy questions mount.
- Dara Lind, immigration reporter at ProPublica and host of the Vox podcast "The Weeds", talks about ProPublica's recent expose of a private Facebook group of Border Patrol agents in which some members posted racist and sexist comments. Plus more news from the border.
- 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 her four-part series "The Scarlet E" about one of the main drivers of homelessness and poverty: evictions.
- If you're sticking around this holiday weekend why not see some art? Deborah Solomon, WNYC’s art critic and the author of American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), ticks through what New York City has to offer. Plus your calls on what to do on the hottest summer days when it's too hot to leave your apartment (hint: Netflix and try to get chilly).
