Monday Morning Politics; 2020 Mayoral Race & Crime; COVID Dreaming

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 28, 2020

Coming up on today's show:

  • Gabriel Debenedetti, national correspondent at New York Magazine, talks about the upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs, and how Trump politics and tactics are coming into play even as the sun sets on his presidency.
  • FAQ NYC co-hosts Harry Siegel, Daily News columnist and Daily Beast senior editor, and Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University, politics editor at The Grio and the author of Black Ethnics (Oxford University Press, 2013), talk about how the leading mayoral candidates say they will approach rising violent crime in the city.
  • Kelly Bulkeley, a psychologist of religion who specializes in dream research, director of the Sleep and Dream Database, author of several books on dreaming, including An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming (Praeger, 2017), talks about how the pandemic has changed and informed the way we dream. Plus, your calls on your nightmares, stress dreams, and good dreams this year.
  • As part of WNYC's 2020 Time Capsule, listeners call in and share the ways of life that at the start of the pandemic seemed like unthinkable risks to take, but now feel normal. 
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.

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