
State of the City; 1993 and Polarization; Fighting Climate Change with Green Appliances; 'La Brega' Season 2
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 27, 2023
Coming up on today's show:
- Elizabeth Kim, reporter who covers mayoral power for the People and Power team at Gothamist and WNYC, recaps Mayor Adams "state of the city" address, where he outlined his policy vision and plans for his second year in office.
- 1993 saw the inauguration of a Democratic U.S. president and a Republican mayor of New York. In this series, we explore the elections and policies of Pres. Clinton and Mayor Giuliani and their impact on the world in 2023. Today, the extent to which hyper-partisanship of today got its start in the 1990s with Nicole Hemmer, political historian and founding director of the Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, co-host of the podcasts "This Day in Esoteric Political History" and "Past Present" and the author of Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries who Remade American Politics in the 1990s (Basic Books, 2022) and Steve Kornacki, national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC and the author of The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism (Ecco, 2018).
- Matthew Daly, environment and energy reporter for AP, focusing on climate change and policy, talks about Pres. Biden's climate policies that require people to buy EVs, heat pumps and other green energy products to have an impact.
- Alana Casanova-Burgess, co-creator, host and producer of "La Brega" from WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios, talks about season two of the podcast, which explores the music of Puerto Rico.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.


