The Latest on Ukraine; Soaring Con-Ed Bills (and What Can Help); Populism, Polarization, and Post-Truths; Jazz and Death Row
The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 25, 2022
Coming up on today's show:
- Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation magazine, talks about the latest news on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- Samantha Maldonado, reporter for The City covering climate and politics, explains why the sudden spike in Con-Ed bills and what assistance is available.
- Moisés Naím, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former editor of Foreign Policy magazine and the author of The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century (St. Martin's Press, 2022), talks about Putin, Biden and Ukraine and his new book which explains the three tools autocrats use to strengthen their power: populism, polarization, and post-truths.
- A group of jazz musicians have been gathering for concerts to highlight the case of death row inmate, Keith LaMar, who they believe is innocent. Arturo O'Farrill, 7-time Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer, global jazz studies professor at UCLA and the associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and artistic director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, and Albert Marques, pianist, composer and New York City schoolteacher, join LaMar to talk about his case and these concerts.
Transcripts are posted to each segment page as soon as they are available.
