National Politics; Laura Walker Responds; SCOTUS; "The Fourth Plan" Subway Fix; Millennials and How They Got that Way

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 5, 2017

Coming up on today's show:

  • Annie Karni, POLITICO White House correspondent, on the latest news coming out of Washington.

  • Laura Walker, president and CEO of New York Public Radio (NYPR), discusses the station's response to sexual misconduct allegations against John Hockenberry, the former host of The Takeaway. 

  • 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, discusses the Supreme Court's travel ban ruling and the wedding cake case that will go before the Court today.

  • Five years in the making, the Regional Plan Association released its fourth-ever (since its 1922 founding) plan for the metro area.  Tom Prendergast, board member of the Regional Plan Association, former chairman and CEO for the MTA, currently executive vice president and chief strategy officer of STV, Inc., a transportation engineering firm, talks about the ideas for transit in the report, including its "modest proposal" to end 24-hour subway service.

  • Malcolm Harris, Philadelphia-based writer, an editor at The New Inquiry and the author of Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials (Little, Brown and Company, 2017), examines the social and economic forces that shape his often-maligned generation to get beyond the stereotypes.

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