Backstage at the Trump White House; Overdose Prevention; CRT Explained; Long-Haul COVID-19
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 21, 2021
On today's show:
- The Washington Post's White House senior Washington correspondent Philip Rucker and national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig, authors of I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year (Penguin Press, 2021), tell the untold story of 2020 and the Trump White House and how last year's events reverberate today.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tracked a recent increase in deaths involving cocaine and synthetic opioids. Caroline Lewis, journalist and frequent contributor to Gothamist/WNYC, and Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard, harm reduction outreach worker at a NYC syringe exchange, program director of the DSA's Opioid Overdose Prevention Program and journalist for FILTER, the internet publication covering harm reduction, talk about why fentanyl is becoming more ubiquitous and what we can do to prevent overdose deaths.
- As one of the preeminent scholars of critical race theory and its reading of history, Ibram X. Kendi, professor in the Humanities and the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, columnist at The Atlantic, author of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Bold Type Books, 2016) and the co-editor of Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (One World, 2021), talks about what it means as an academic approach and why it's become a cultural hot button.
- Marjan Islam, M.D., director of the COVID-19 Recovery and Engagement (CORE) Clinic and assistant professor of medicine in the division of Pulmonary Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, talks about the latest in COVID-19 'long-haul' symptoms.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
