Impeachment Update; 2010s Grads Look Ahead to the 2020s; Unsettled in Japan; Occupy, BLM, and #MeToo: 2010s in Movements

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 19, 2019
  • David Leonhardt, op-ed columnist at The New York Times and co-host of the podcast "The Argument," ticks through the latest impeachment related news.

  • Listeners who graduated high school, college or graduate school in the 2010s call in to talk about whether they are optimistic for the 2020s, or not, and why.

  • Matt Katz, WNYC reporter, talks about his reporting on refugees in Japan -- a country with an aging, shrinking population that needs workers, but is still inhospitable to outsiders.

  • Alexis Grenell, co-founder of Pythia Public, a political and public affairs firm, and a frequent contributor to the Daily News and The Daily Beast, DeRay Mckesson, co-founder of Campaign Zero, host of the podcast "Pod Save The People," and author of On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope (Viking, 2018), and Mark Bray, historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe who was one of the organizers of Occupy Wall Street, lecturer at Dartmouth College and the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House, 2017), talk about how social and political movements defined the last decade.

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