Climate at UNGA; Council Member Tiffany Cabán; MAGA's Interference on Counting Votes; Sleep and Our Internal 'Clocks'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 24, 2024
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On today's show: 

  • Valerie Volcovici, reporter at Reuters covering U.S. climate and energy policy from Washington, DC., talks about the climate priorities at the UN General Assembly and during Climate Week NYC, which is also happening this week.
  • NYPD officers shot and injured four people in a Brooklyn subway station earlier this month as they chased a man with a knife. Tiffany Cabán, NYC Council member (District 22, Astoria, Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, Woodside and Rikers Island), discusses the legal issues at play, and comments on the police body camera footage of the incident, which was released last week.
  • Ari Berman, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), talks about how Trump-aligned Republicans in certain states are working to sow confusion over vote counting, and other related chicanery that could affect the outcome of the November election.
  • Lynne Peeples, science writer, MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow, and the author of The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms (Riverhead Books, 2024), reviews the latest science on our internal "clocks" and how to use them to improve sleep and learning.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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