Post-Inauguration National Politics; 'Super-Majority' Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins; Saving Civic Life; Poetry and the Inauguration
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 21, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
- Marc Fisher, senior editor at The Washington Post, talks about President Biden's calls for unity, and the many executive actions he took on his first day in office.
- State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-35th), talks about this new legislative session and the Democrats' priorities and offers a response to the governor's budget proposals.
- Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of Global Voices Online, associate professor of public policy, information, and communication, founder of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them (W. W. Norton & Company, 2021), talks about the loss of faith in civic institutions and what history and research show are the best ways for revitalizing and reforming civic life.
- Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, reflects on the young poet Amanda Gorman's poem from President Biden's inauguration, and the moment we're in.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
