
Somali-American Community Check-In; Is the Boeing 737 Max Safe?; Breakthroughs & Setbacks in Latest HIV/AIDS News; Taking Down The Elites At Davos And Fox News
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 12, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Ibrahim Hirsi, Somali-American journalist who has covered immigrant communities in Minnesota , talks about the history of the Somali community in Minnesota, how Somali-Americans are interpreting recent news over the surge in American airstrikes in Somalia plus Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s current controversy.
- George Hamlin, aviation consultant, and Gerry Shih, Washington Post Beijing correspondent, talk about concerns over the safety of the Boeing 737 Max after a second crash in five months leads some countries to ground the airplanes and about China's decision to ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 planes.
- Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr., editor-in-chief of POZ, joins to discuss the latest developments around HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention work, including news that a second HIV-positive person enters remission after a rare treatment and more.
- After causing a stir at Davos for demanding the world’s richest people pay more taxes, Rutger Bregman, journalist and author of Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Little, Brown and Company 2017), was invited on Fox News to bash the liberal elite. Instead he came for Fox host Tucker Carlson, suggesting that he too was a pawn of the billionaire class. He explains why, when it comes to addressing global income inequality, the terms "liberal" and "conservative" don’t have much value.


