Monday Morning Politics; Shoring Up the Free Press; New York Bans Native American Mascots; Wrestling With Guilty Pleasures
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 24, 2023
Coming up on today's show:
- Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York Magazine and the author of, most recently, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon & Schuster, 2018), talks about the latest on mifepristone and the federal courts, Sen. Feinstein's future and more.
- Jelani Cobb, dean of Columbia Journalism School, author, and staff writer at The New Yorker, Jodie Ginsberg, president of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University professor and the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family and On Juneteenth (Liveright, 2021), discuss a 2-day conference for journalists, teachers, and policy makers called Faultlines: Democracy that seeks to shore up one of the bulwarks of democracy—the free press.
- John Kane, Mohawk activist, member of the New York State Indigenous Mascot Advisory Council, and host of the shows "Let's Talk Native" and "Resistance Radio with John Kane," discusses the New York State Board of Regents decision to ban school team names and mascots that reference indigenous people.
- Hannah Louise Poston, Youtuber, poet and essayist, talks about how she wrestles with her love of beautiful yet unnecessary things, and listeners call in to talk about how they align their consumption habits, budgets and love of guilty pleasures.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
