Impeachment News; Nate Silver on 2020; Paul Krugman vs Zombies; Signaling Middle Class
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 28, 2020
On today's show:
- Elie Mystal, justice correspondent at The Nation, runs through the latest impeachment headlines, and previews the final day of the president's defense team's presentation of their case;
- Nate Silver, founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, forecasts the 2020 primary;
- Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times on economics and politics and the author of Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), breaks down the complexities of health care, housing bubbles, tax reform, Social Security and other issues at the forefront of the 2020 presidential election;
- Karyn Lacy, professor of sociology at the University of Michigan and the author of Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class (University of California Press, 2007), explores how Black people expend daily energy to counteract racial stereotypes and get fair treatment and the price they pay for failing to appear middle class.
