Monday Morning Politics; Easter & Your Seders; The State of Election Security; Populism vs. Democracy

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 2, 2018

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Jamil Smith, senior writer at Rolling Stone, discusses the latest national political news. 

  • The Rev. Schuyler Vogel, senior minister of the Fourth Universalist Society on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, updates listeners on the story of Aura Hernandez, an immigrant and mother of two seeking sanctuary and living in his church to avoid a deportation order. Then callers share what kinds of conversations were happening at their religious services, Seders and Easter meals over the weekend.

  • While money for the nation's voting infrastructure made it into the big spending bill, Larry Norden, deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center, talks about the outlook for this year's primary and general elections and the threats of hacking or other threats to election security.
     
  • William Galston, former policy advisor to President Bill Clinton, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy (Yale University Press, 2018), discusses his new book.

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