Thursday Morning Politics; When Consent is Murky; The Eights | 1958 and the Culture War Rumblings; The History of TRussia
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 10, 2018
On today's show...
- Jonathan Lemire, White House reporter for the Associated Press and political analyst for MSNBC/NBC News, talks about the latest national political news of the day, including the newly-released American prisoners from North Korea, the Haspel hearings for CIA director, midterm primary results, Iran deal fallout, and more.
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Jessica Bennett, gender editor at The New York Times, and Daniel Jones, editor of The New York Times Modern Love column, talk about their new collection of stories from college students that examine sexual consent, so-called "gray-zone sex" and other related issues.
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Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed (2010) and Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Simon & Schuster, 2016), discusses the political and cultural climate of 1958.
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Seth Hettena, investigative reporter and the author of Trump / Russia: A Definitive History (Melville House, 2018), traces the history of Donald Trump's interactions with Russia, from 1984 through the campaign.
