Wednesday Morning Politics; Are Millennials Aging Out of Cities?; Trump, Inc.; Unintended Consequences and the Pill

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 2, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), and David Sanger, national security correspondent for The New York Times and the author of The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age (Crown, 2018) discuss the latest political headlines.
  • The Wall Street Journal reported on new census data showing populations declines for the 25-39 year-olds in cities, including New York. Derek Thompson, senior editor at The Atlantic talks about the demographics, its causes and effects and listeners share their stay-or-go decisions. Plus, Joseph Salvo, director of the population division at the New York City Planning Department, pushes back on the idea that NYC is losing population.
  • Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, co-hosts of the Trump, Inc. podcast at WNYC, discuss the newest episode of the show.
  • Sarah Hill, evolutionary psychology researcher, professor at Texas Christian University and the author of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences (Avery, 2019), looks at the possible effects of the hormones on brain chemistry beyond the well-known benefits and risks of birth control pills.

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