Tuesday Morning National Politics; Politics & Social Activism; Discovery Reform and Other Legal News; Ask a Native New Yorker; 10 Minute Explainer: Income Tax
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 4, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent, reports on the latest national political news from Washington, D.C.
- DeRay Mckesson, co-founder of Campaign Zero, host of "Pod Save The People" and author of On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope (Viking, 2018), discusses the latest news on the presidential race, social activism and criminal justice.
- Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, and the Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School, talks about why discovery reform is important for defendants in criminal cases, and comments on the news that the president may have asked Gary Cohn, his former chief economic advisor, to interfere in the AT&T-Time Warner merger.
- Jake Dobkin, Gothamist publisher and author of Ask a Native New Yorker: Hard-Earned Advice on Surviving and Thriving in the Big City (Abrams Image, 2019), answers questions on how to survive in New York City from his perspective as a lifelong New Yorker.
- Jeremy Bearer-Friend, acting assistant professor of taxation at New York University School of Law, explains the origins of the U.S. income tax and what it says about America's values.
