Weedkiller Roundup at SCOTUS; Senator Cory Booker; Settler Violence in the West Bank; Hospital Admissions; Ambivalence

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 28
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On today's show:

  • Maureen Groppe, Supreme Court correspondent for USA Today, offers legal analysis of yesterday's oral arguments at the Supreme Court on lawsuits on the health effects of Roundup, and Lianne Sheppard, professor in Public Health Sciences, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Biostatistics at the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health at the University of Washington, talks about the data on the health effects of glyphosate, the active chemical in the herbicide Roundup.

  • U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D, NJ), author of Stand (St. Martin’s Press, 2026), talks about his ongoing efforts to gain support for a war powers resolution to stop the war in Iran and the approaching 60-day deadline, plus other national news.
  • Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy talks about the current state of violence and settlements in the West Bank.
  • Elisabeth Rosenthal, senior contributing editor at KFF Health News and former ER physician and author of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Penguin Press, 2017), discusses her latest reporting on how patients in emergency department are getting stuck waiting for days to be transferred into an inpatient ward.
  • Listeners call in to talk about what they feel unsure about in this age of certainty and political polarization.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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