New Life for the Equal Rights Amendment?; Winners & Losers in 2018 Tax Filings; Mayor Buttigieg on 2020; Oscar Docs: Free Solo

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 14, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • While Virginia's leadership crisis continues, Jennifer Carroll Foy, represents the Second House District of the Virginia General Assembly, and Kamala Lopez, actress, activist, and founder/executive director of Equal Means Equal, talk about efforts to make the state the final ratifier of the E.R.A. and why it matters decades after the 1982 deadline imposed by Congress.
  • Heather Long, Washington Post economics correspondent, talks through the details of the Republican tax overhaul that took effect this year and why some people will be surprised by their 2018  tax bills.
  • Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana talks about his new book Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future (Liveright, 2019), and his bid for the presidency.
  • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, co-directors of "Free Solo," talk about their feature-length documentary nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary.

 

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