Primarily New York: WFP Results; Education Dept Reopens Case Alleging Anti-Jewish Bias at Rutgers; Ten Years After the Crash; How Infectious Disease Shaped NYC
The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 14, 2018
- Bill Lipton, New York State director of the Working Families Party, and Maurice Mitchell, Working Families Party national director, review the results of the New York primary and look ahead to November. Then New York City comptroller Scott Stringer reviews the results of the primary and talks about his recent reports.
- Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of The Forward, talks about the news that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights reopened a case at Rutgers claiming discrimination against Jewish students, and the department's framing of Judaism as an ethnicity.
- Rob Cox, global editor at Reuters Breakingviews, discusses how the financial world has and has not changed since the start of the Great Recession in 2008.
- Dr. Rebecca Jacobs, co-curator of the exhibit "Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis" at the Museum of the City of New York, and WNYC reporter Amanda Aronczyk preview the new exhibit which explores the history of New York through infectious disease and the desire to contain them.
