Monday Morning Politics; The Bronx Elects a Republican; How to Respond to Humanitarian Crises; The Power of Labor
On today's show:Â
- Susan Glasser, a staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes a column on life in Biden's Washington and co-anchors a weekly roundtable discussion on "The Political Scene" podcast, and co-author with Peter Baker of The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (Doubleday, 2022), talks about the latest national political news after the long holiday weekend.
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Voters in the East Bronx elected a Republican to City Council for the first time in 40 years, defeating one-term councilwoman Marjorie Velázquez. Jonathan Custodio, The Bronx reporter for The City, reports on what drove the neighborhoods to Republican Kristy Marmorato, and whether this election signals an enduring shift.
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Rajiv Shah, MD, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and USAID administrator from 2009-2015 and the author of Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens (Simon Element, 2023), talks about responding to humanitarian crises, and going for bold improvements.
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Eric Blanc, assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University, author of several books including Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave (Verso, 2019), plus writer of the newsletter laborpolitics.substack.com, discusses what the SAG and UAW deals signal about workers' power and labor relations.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
