What the Cambridge Analytica News Means for Facebook Users; Mitch Landrieu on Facing History; When the Kushners Are Your Landlords; Jewish in the Age of Trump

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 21, 2018

Coming up on today’s show:

  • April Glaser, Slate technology writer and co-host of the podcast If Then, discusses what the Cambridge Analytica revelations say about who Facebook is for, and how this news will affect users' experiences on both Facebook and other social networks.
  • Mitch Landrieu, mayor (D) of New Orleans and the author of In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History (Viking, 2018), tells his story and how it can model the national conversation about America's history of racial injustice.
  • New York City Council Member Ritchie Torres (15th District - Bedford Park, Fordham, Belmont, Mount Hope, Bathgate, East Tremont, West Farms, Van Nest, Allerton, Olinville), chair of the Council’s Committee on Oversight and Investigations, and Aaron Carr, founder and executive director of Housing Rights Initiative, talk about City Council's investigation into the AP's report that the Kushner Companies, which President Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner used to run, filed false paperwork to the city that said buildings they bought had no rent-regulated tenants, when in fact they had many — and what those lies meant for both the tenants, the Kushners and the city's real estate market.
  • Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of The New York Times, talks about his new book (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump (St. Martin's Press, 2018).

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