Terror in Charlottesville; North Korea; The Legacy of Lynching

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 14, 2017

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the Domestic Affairs Correspondent for The New York Times, and FiveThirtyEight political writer, Perry Bacon Jr on the violence in Charlottesville. 
  • Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist on the rising tensions between the US and North Korea plus Jean Lee, Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, reports from Seoul on how President Trump's war of words with North Korea is being heard in South Korea.
  • Jonah Ogles, articles editor at Outside Magazine, talks about the run on applications for senior lifetime passes and the debate over capping admissions to certain national parks. 
  • Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative and Anne Pasternak, director of the Brooklyn Museum, talk about the museum's current exhibit, The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, which explores racial injustice in the country through lynching. 

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