Swing Districts; Marianne WIlliamson; Gov. Cuomo; Assange's Espionage Charges; Your Brain on Psychedelics
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 28, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- U.S. Representatives Thomas Suozzi, (D NY-3) and Tom Malinowski (D NJ-7), talk about how impeachment and other national issues are seen in their districts;
- Marianne Williamson, spiritual adviser, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and author of A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution (HarperCollins Publishers, 2019), discusses her presidential proposal to create a cabinet-level "Department of Childhood and Youth" as part of the "2020 Ideas Festival";
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) talks about the MTA's overtime controversy, plus pending legislation.
- Fred Kaplan, Slate's national security columnist and author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Simon & Schuster, 2016) and Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the leading human rights and free expression organization, discuss federal espionage charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and its implications for journalists and freedom of the press; and
- Michael Pollan, discusses his latest book on how psychedelics can produce profound changes in the mind, (now out in paperback) How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (Penguin Press, 2019).
