Tipped Wages; Covering the Caliphate; Michael Hayden Speaks Out; Andy Borowitz Reports
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 2, 2018
Coming up on today's show:
- Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and president of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley, and author of Forked: A New Standard for American Dining (OUP, 2016) and Behind the Kitchen Door (ILR Press, 2014), and Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, debate whether New York should maintain a two-tiered wage system in restaurant s and what getting rid of the tip credit could mean for workers and owners.
- Rukmini Callimachi, foreign correspondent for The New York Times covering Islamic extremism, including Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, talks about her new Times audio series, “Caliphate," which digs into the Islamic State's practices, appeal, and her sometimes harrowing job covering the terrorist group.
- Michael Hayden, retired United States Air Force four-star general, former director of the NSA and the CIA, now with The Chertoff Group and the author of The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies (Penguin Press, 2018), offers his critique of the Trump administration's use of the intelligence community.
- Andy Borowitz, comedian and creator of The New Yorker's "The Borowitz Report" column, talks about satirizing today's news.
