A New White Supremacist Movement; Trump's Foreign Business Deals; YA Twitter Wars

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 15, 2017
  • AC Thompson, who covers the rise in hate crimes in America for ProPublica, talks about how the events in Charlottesville represent a new younger incarnation of the white supremacy movement.
  • Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC reporter, Lance Winslow, Mobile Crisis supervisor and Steve Coe CEO of Community Access, discuss alternatives to calling law enforcement when emotionally disturbed people experience a mental health crisis.
  • Adam Davidson, staff writer for The New Yorker, talks about a new investigation into Trump business deals with a Kazakh Oligarch that has ties to Putin.
  • Kat Rosenfield, a freelance writer and YA author looks at how social media-fueled criticisms can ruin a YA book's chances at success -- and how these Twitter "call outs" are making YA authors, publishers and agents afraid of offending the social media mob.

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