Friday Morning Politics; Sandy, Five Years Later; The Modern Workplace; Political Language

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 27, 2017

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Washington bureau chief of USA TODAY Susan Page discusses the latest in national political news.      

  • Josh Robin, reporter and anchor for NY1, reports on what the City has accomplished in the five years since Superstorm Sandy to prepare for future storms.

  • Bernard Schwartz, director at Unterberg Poetry Center at 92nd Street Y, talks about their new collaborative book that explores the minutiae and the meaning of the modern workplace.  He’s joined by two of the contributors, writers Sloane Crosley and Gary Shteyngart, who share their memorable working experiences.

  • Mark Thompson, president and CEO of The New York Times Company and author of Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics? (St. Martin's Griffin, 2017), discusses the language of politics -- how we talk and write (and tweet) about it today.   

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