President Donald Trump stands for the national anthem during the 37th annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 15, 2018, in Washington.

Nat'l Politics; Christiane Amanpour; The Eights | Democrats' Dysfunction in 1968; Atlas Obscura's Hidden Gems

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 16, 2018

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent, reports on the latest national political news.

  • Christiane Amanpour, CNN chief international correspondent and host of CNN International's and PBS's nightly global affairs program, discusses the latest international news.

  • Our American Culture Wars history series "The Eights" looks at 1968 and the Democratic National Convention with archival audio and Lawrence O'Donnell, host of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" and the author of Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and Transformation of American Politics (Penguin Press, 2017).

  • Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura's senior editor and co-author of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Workman Publishing Company, 2016), joins us each day this week to talk about some of her favorite hidden gems from the Atlas Obscura trove.

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