Are Student Athletes Employees?; Reporters Ask the Mayor; The Threat of Anti-Semitism; Caitlin Clark and This Moment in Women's Sports
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 20, 2024
Coming up on today’s show:
- Dartmouth's men's basketball team recently decided to form a labor union, but the school announced it will not negotiate. Billy Witz, reporter covering college sports for The New York Times, reports on the story in New Hampshire, and the larger implications any decision on it could have for student athletes everywhere.
- Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week's event, including on subway safety, a sexual assault allegation against the mayor and more news.
- Franklin Foer, staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses how rising anti-Semitism on both sides of the political spectrum threatens Jewish Americans safety and prosperity, and the consequences for our broader republic.
- With the NCAA basketball tournament, Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, sports writer and co-author of Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League (Hachette, 2021), talks about the effect of Caitlin Clark on basketball and women's sports.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
