#AskTheMayor; Climate and Change in Congress; Shutdown America; The Life of Frederick Douglass

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 10, 2019
  • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC and the proposals in his State of the City speech.
  • Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, a grassroots group demanding immediate action from the United States Congress to address the climate change crisis, discusses her group's opposition to fossil fuel financing and the effort to create a Green New Deal.
  •  FiveThirtyEight’s politics editor Sarah Frostenson discusses her predictions for how the current government shutdown will resolve itself and its impact on communities around the nation.
  •  David Blight, professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, talks about his book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster, 2018).

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