SOTU Breakdown and Analysis with Ana Marie Cox; SOTU Worldview; What Are You Ambivalent About?; Screens & Kids: How Much? How Early?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 31, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • Ana Marie Cox, host of the podcast With Friends Like These and columnist for the SYFY channel, breaks down President Trump's State of the Union address, and takes calls.

  • Susan Glasser, chief international affairs columnist  at POLITICO, host of The Global Politico podcast and contributor to The New Yorker, offers analysis of the State of the Union from a world news perspective.

  • In this political climate, it's hard to find someone who admits to feeling uncertain about a given policy issue. Listeners call in to confess issues they are ambivalent about, despite party lines.

  • Anya Kamenetz, NPR's lead digital education correspondent and the author of The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (PublicAffairs, 2018), explores the questions of how much and how soon for children and digital devices through the scientific evidence available.

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