Midterm Fallout; Immigrants GOTV; An Amazon in Queens; History in Crisis
The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 8, 2018
- Jamelle Bouie, chief political correspondent for Slate, discusses the results from this week's midterm elections.
- Sayu Bhojwani, founder and president of New American Leaders, New York City's first Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs, and the author of People Like Us: The New Wave of Candidates Knocking at Democracy’s Door, looks at the results from Tuesday's voting and where immigrants had an impact.
- Greg David, author of Modern New York: The Life and Economics of a City, talks about reports that Amazon plans to bring half of its new headquarters to Long Island City. Emma Fitzsimmons, transit reporter for The New York Times, considers how it could impact New York's already struggling transit.
- Jay Sexton, professor of Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri and the author of A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History, reframes American history as less steady progress and more a series of responses to external forces
