The IDC; How Manafort Made Trump; US-Turkey Relations; Ethnic Stereotypes In Music

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 14, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • Azi Paybarah and Fordham University political science professor Christina Greer, co-hosts of the New York politics podcast FAQ NYC, review the history of the Independent Democratic Conference and talk about their challengers in the primary.
  • Franklin Foer, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about how former Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort, shaped the lobbying industry early on and how his work paved the way for a Trump presidency.
  • Amanda Sloat, Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, and Nahal Toosi, foreign affairs correspondent at Politico, discuss how tensions have been simmering between the U.S. and Turkey, and how Turkey's refusal to release an American pastor hasn't helped. They also discuss the Trump administration's new sanctions and tariffs on Turkey, and why the deteriorating relationship is a problem.
  • James Bennett II, WQXR staff writer, talks about the origins of the Neapolitan Tarantalla, the Italian ethnic stereotypes it signifies, and other pieces of music that are associated with certain ethnicities.

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