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What's in Store for Milwaukee at this Summer's RNC? / Rachel Ida Buff

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I'm really scared about the combination of police who've never known a body camera and armed white nationalists who are going to feel that white fragility on the streets of my city and be trigger happy.

Our guest is Rachel Ida Buff who posted the Boston Review article, “The Right Comes for Milwaukee: Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?

Also, 'This Week in Rotten History.'

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Guest

Rachel Ida Buff

Rachel Ida Buff is a writer and professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.