One Month of Mayor Mamdani; Friday Morning Politics; A History of General Strikes; Winter Hobbies
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 30
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On today's show:
- Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter talks about Mayor Mamdani's first month in office, including challenges like this week's big snowstorm and a major budget crisis.
- Siobhan Hughes, a reporter covering Congress in The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau, talks about the impasse in Congress over DHS funding and whether a deal or a partial shutdown of the federal government is more likely.
- Eric Blanc, assistant professor of Labor Studies at Rutgers University, author of several books including We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (University of California Press, 2025) and author of the Substack newsletter Labor Politics, talks about the history of general strikes, and what makes them effective, and listeners call in if they are participating in Friday's general strike.
- As the cold snap continues and the piles of snow linger, listeners share if they've taken up a hobby appropriate to the season.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
