National Politics & Civics w/ Amy Walter; Coronavirus Latest; Trump’s Court Remakes America; Apocalypse Daffodils and Convention Politics
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 2, 2020
Coming up on today's show:
- Amy Walter, national editor The Cook Political Report, host of Politics with Amy Walter on WNYC’s The Takeaway, and now the host of the “micro podcast” How to Vote in America, previews Super Tuesday and talks about more national political news.
- Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), talks about how the new conservative Supreme Court could fundamentally change America.
- Andrew Revkin, science and environmental journalist, founding director of the Initiative on Communication & Sustainability at The Earth Institute, and the co-author of Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change (Sterling, 2018), provides a scientific perspective on why this February was one of the warmest on record. Plus, listeners call with the unscientific “indicators” of an early spring that they’ve witnessed.
