Trump, Inc.; How Democrats Could Squander the Blue Wave; Between Identities; Heartland in Distress
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On today's show...
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Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy for WNYC news and co-host of the Trump, Inc. podcast, Ilya Marritz, WNYC reporter and co-host of Trump, Inc., and Eric Umansky, deputy managing editor of ProPublica and editor of Trump, Inc., discuss their podcast and the business dealings of Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
- Jonathan Alter, former editor of Newsweek, analyst for MSNBC, co-host of Sirius XM Alter Family Politics, Daily Beast columnist and the author of The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies (Simon & Schuster, reprint 2014), argues that Democrats should support moderates over more liberal candidates in order to win in this year's midterms -- as he writes, "in Trump’s America, pragmatism is a moral imperative."
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Alex Wagner, co-host of Showtime’s "The Circus," contributor to CBS News and The Atlantic, and the author of Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging (One World, 2018), reflects on identity and belonging as she explored a mystery in her own mixed race ancestry.
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Sarah Kendzior, reporter, op-ed columnist for The Globe and Mail, and the author of The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America (Flatiron Books, 2018), shares what she learned reporting on the Midwest for Al Jazeera that led to her early prediction of a Trump victory.
