Re-Thinking Migration; Bill Thompson's Take on the 2021 Elections; Crypto and Cybersecurity; A Non-Violent Approach to Public Drug Use
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 9, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
- Vice President Harris is tasked with curbing migration to the U.S. from parts of Central America. Anita Isaacs, a professor of political science at Haverford College and the director of Migration Encounters, argues that if the U.S. rethinks its approach to people coming from Guatemala, it could begin to fix the broken system.
- Bill Thompson, chair of the CUNY Board of Trustees, partner at the investment firm Siebert Williams Shank & Co., former NYC Comptroller, and Democratic candidate for mayor in 2009, weighs in on the role of the comptroller job and the state of the mayoral campaign.
- In recent weeks, cybercriminals have increasingly targeted key players in the U.S. economy. Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity and digital espionage reporter for The New York Times and author of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), discusses the future of cybersecurity in light of recent ransomware attacks, including the latest developments in the Colonial Pipeline situation, and helps take listener calls debating whether cryptocurrency is an asset or a detriment to improving digital security.
- After residents near Washington Square Park complained about people openly using drugs, the police opted to close the northwest portion of the park, pushing users out to the rest of the park, which only furthered some residents' distress. Melissa Moore, New York state director of the Drug Policy Alliance, and Jawanza Williams, organizing director at VOCAL-NY, talk about why policing approaches to drug use often don't work and what alternatives exist.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
