Nat'l Politics; State of NYCHA; Florida School Shooting; An Adjunct's Story

How Steve Bannon helped propel Trump.

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Joshua Green, senior national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek, talks about the latest national political news and his book Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency (Penguin Press, 2017), which explores how Steve Bannon helped propel Donald Trump to the presidency.

  • WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports that NYPD Sergeant Hugh Barry has been acquitted of all charges in the killing of a mentally ill Bronx woman last year.

  • Claudia Perez, Community Voices Heard member and president of the tenant's association at the Washington Houses, and Gabriel Strachota, lead organizer of the NYC chapter of Community Voices Heard, talk about the organization's calls for a NYCHA resident-led oversight committee and greater funding for repairs.

  • President Trump addresses the nation on yesterday's school shooting in Parkland, Florida. New York Times op-ed columnist David Leonhardt previews the speech by discussing the shooting and gun violence here in the United States. And WNYC's Amira Nader, who attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, talks about the school and reacts to the news from her hometown. Plus: The Guardian reporter Lois Beckett, who covers guns and gun violence, criminal justice and the far right, reports on the shooting and also previews -- and reacts to -- the president's speech.

  • Lisa del Rosso, adjunct professor at NYU and author of Confessions of an Accidental Professor (Serving House Books, 2017), talks about her career as an adjunct writing instructor.