The News From City Hall; The Latest IPCC Report; Elizabeth Alexander

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 6, 2022

On today's show:

  • Sally Goldenberg, City Hall bureau chief for Politico NY, and Joe Anuta, Politico City Hall reporter, talk about the latest news from the Adams administration, including the mayor's somewhat rocky relationship with the press so far, and more city news.  Plus, Bill Mahoney, a reporter at Politico New York's Albany bureau, shares the latest on the state budget negotiations.
  • Jake Spring, global climate and environment correspondent for Reuters, unpacks the findings and conclusions of the latest climate report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and how the pre-publication process meant to build consensus has left blind spots in past reports.
  • Building on her New Yorker essay, Elizabeth Alexander, president of The Mellon Foundation, poet, educator, memoirist and scholar and the author of The Trayvon Generation (Grand Central Publishing, 2022), examines the challenges facing young Black Americans.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.

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