The Latest on Syria and Yemen; Trump Aims to Kill Obama's Legacy on Racial Justice in Schools; Retail Report; Pooping Unicorns
The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 20, 2018
Coming up on today's show:
- President Trump has said the war against ISIS is over, and all U.S. troops will leave Syria within a month. Nader Hashemi, director of the Center for Middle East Studies and an associate professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies and the co-editor of Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2017), discusses the sudden shift in US policy there and what's happening with the ceasefire in Yemen.
- Eve Hill, former Obama Administration education official and attorney, and Andre Perry, reporter for the Hechinger Report, discuss new report on school safety from Trump Education Department and recommendations to repeal work on racial justice initiatives education initiatives from the Obama Era.
- Jonathan Bowles, executive director of the Center for an Urban Future, discusses the latest annual CUF report on chain stores in NYC which found their numbers have declined for the first time, we'll hear from mom-and-pop retailers on their businesses.
- Elizabeth Sweet, assistant professor in the department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State University, and Jackie Breyer, editorial director of The Toy Insider, talk about the latest toy trends and how they play into the gender conversations we’re having in 2018.
