
'Grading' Mayor de Blasio; Susan Glasser on Guns, Russia and More; What’s the Craziest Thing You Ever Found?; Your 28th Amendment?
The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 8, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
- Elizabeth Kim, politics reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, Jessica Gould, WNYC/Gothamist reporter and Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom, review the accomplishments of and challenges faced by Mayor de Blasio and ask listeners to weigh in with their "grades."
- Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN global affairs analyst, joins to talk about the latest in national politics headlines, including the latest on Russia, as it mobilizes its military at the Ukrainian border, and the latest on gun laws in the United States.
- Earlier this month a British teenager made news when she stumbled across a hoard of priceless Bronze Age items using a standard metal detector in a field near her home. Listeners call in with the craziest, most valuable or unexpected item they ever found and what they did with it.
- Alex Strada and Tali Keren, artists-in-residence for Queens Museum's Year of Uncertainty, talk about their new multi-media participatory artwork called "Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?" and invite listeners to weigh in. They are joined by legal scholar Julia Hernandez, associate professor of Law at the CUNY School of Law.Â
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.


