GOP Tax Plan; Bidding for Amazon; The New Yorker Festival; History, Race and Family in the South

Coming up on today's show:

• Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute research director, and Diana Furchtgott-Roth, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and director of its Economics21 program and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, weigh in on the new Republican tax plan.
• Alicia Glen, NYC deputy mayor for housing and economic development, talks about the 20+ submissions for potential homes for Amazon's second headquarters, NYC's bid and the company's impact on the economy.
• David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, previews the 18th annual New York Festival and the lineup of artists, writers and actors.
• Charles Dew, professor of American history at Williams College and the author of Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (University of Virginia Press, 2002) and the memoir, now in paperback, The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade (University of Virginia Press, 2017), turns his historian skills on his own family to explain the particular racism of the American South.