Investigating Amazon; Manhattan's Competitive Races; Biden and Putin Meet; What Black Voters Are Thinking in the Mayoral Campaign

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 16, 2021

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Throughout the pandemic, Amazon has grown exponentially. Jodi Kantor, New York Times investigative reporter and author, and Grace Ashford, researcher and reporter with the investigations unit of The New York Times, break down the key takeaways from months of investigating the JFK8 Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island and what it exposes about the company's work culture.
  • We're going borough-by-borough all week.  Today, Ben Max, executive editor of Gotham Gazette and host of the Max Politics podcast, talks about the some of the key races in Manhattan, including the Democratic primaries for District Attorney, Borough President and several City Council seats.
  • Talks between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin began today. Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many books, including The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Simon & Schuster, 2020), joins to discuss what to expect from the high-stakes summit.
  • A new Marist Poll showed Black voters preferred Eric Adams to other candidates in the mayoral campaign. Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University, host of the podcast FAQNYC, politics editor at The Grio, and author of Black Ethnics (Oxford University Press, 2013), breaks down what Black Democratic voters are saying about this year's primary election.

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.

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