The U.S. and Iran at the U.N.G.A.; UNGA: Emir of Kano; 2020 on Stage: Tom Steyer; An 'Unbelievable' Story; The Myth of Gendered Brains; Impeachment Check-In
The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 25, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Robin Wright, foreign affairs analyst and writer for The New Yorker, discusses this week's U.N. General Assembly.
- Muhammadu Sanusi II, emir of Kano, in northern Nigeria, and a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, talks about his visit to the UNGA and the Climate Action Summit.
- Tom Steyer, 2020 hopeful, Democratic party donor and activist; founder of the groups Need to Impeach and Next Gen America, talks about qualifying for the October debate and his campaign, based on a push for impeachment.
- Ayelet Waldman, former federal public defender, author most recently of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life, and her husband Michael Chabon, author of several books including “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,” “Wonder Boys” and “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” which received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001, talk about writing their latest Netflix series, "Unbelievable," which is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning true story of a woman who was charged with filing a false report after recanting a claim that she had been raped.
- Gina Rippon, honorary professor of cognitive neuroimaging at Aston Brain Centre at Aston University in Birmingham, England and the author of Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds (Pantheon, 2019), talks about the myth of brains with gender and what that's meant for science.
- Heather Caygle, Congress reporter for POLITICO, talks about the latest development into the Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
