Wednesday Morning Politics; Civic Participation; The Eights | 2008's Financial Crisis; Boy Talk

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 13, 2018
  • Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA TODAY, discusses the latest in national political news.
  • Ahead of this year’s midterm elections, WNYC and Gothamist are surveying listeners and readers to find out what kind of civic engagement our listeners already participate in, and what the hurdles are to doing more. Mark Winston Griffith, executive director of the Brooklyn Movement Center, gives some suggestions for how people can get involved in their communities.
  • Tanzina Vega, new host of The Takeaway, and Adam Davidson, New Yorker staff writer and co-founder of NPR's Planet Money, discuss how the Great Recession of 2008 exacerbated the cultural divides in the United States and contributed to today's Culture Wars.
  • Adam Cox, clinical psychologist and the author of Cracking the Boy Code: How to Understand and Talk with Boys (New Society Publishers, 2018), offers practical advice for communicating with boys.

 

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