20: Immigration, Iran, and the ICA

Boston Public Radio Podcast

English - January 09, 2020 19:56 - 2 hours - 75.6 MB - ★★★★ - 429 ratings
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Today on Boston Public Radio:

We opened lines to callers to hear your thoughts on Iran’s Tuesday night missile strike.

We aired live audio of President Trump’s statement regarding the Iranian missile strike.

CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem recapped President Trump’s statements and offered her take on how it could impact tensions moving forward.

Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, discussed Iranian-Americans being detained by immigration officials at U.S. borders.

Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn and the Kennedy School’s David Gergen discussed historic examples of leadership in times of crisis, and weighed in on the situation with Iran.

Medical ethicist Art Caplan discussed questions of transparency surrounding the health of several 2020 presidential candidates.

WGBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen reviewed "Little Women,” “1917,” and “Bombshell,” as well as a new exhibit at the ICA called “When Home Won’t Let You Stay."