
How Would a Cease-Fire Work?; Speaker Adams on the State of the City; The Medium and the Message of the Internet; 1000 Wordles
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 15, 2024
Coming up on today's show:
- Jon Alterman, senior vice president and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Khaled Elgindy, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and director of its Program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs, discuss the calls for cease-fire in Gaza, why it means different things to different groups, and how it could work.
- Adrienne Adams, New York City Council Speaker (District 28, Queens neighborhoods of Jamaica, Rochdale Village, Richmond Hill, and South Ozone Park), talks about her recent State of the City address and the work of the council.
- Jay Caspian Kang, staff writer for The New Yorker, documentary film director, and the author of The Loneliest Americans (Crown, 2021), shares his thoughts on what he calls the "ideology of the internet," and the tangible effects it has on culture, democracy, institutions and our day-to-day lives.
- Tracy Bennett, New York Times digital puzzles editor, talks about the celebration around the 1,000th Wordle game and offers insights into how the NYT puzzles are created and played.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
