Democrat Debate Part III; Rats and the City; State and Federal Efforts to Fight Teen Vaping; How Deal-Making Won Out

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 12, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Andrew Prokop, senior politics correspondent for Vox, previews the third Democratic presidential debate on Thursday night.
  • Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President, discusses the latest city news, including an apparent slowdown in NYPD arrests and tickets after Officer Pantaleo's firing and a potential new solution to curb NYC's rat problem.
  • New Jersey State Senator Shirley Turner and Rachel Roubein, healthcare reporter for Politico, discuss legislative efforts at the state and federal levels to combat teen vaping, including a proposed ban on e-cigarettes in New Jersey
  • Nicholas Lemann, Columbia Journalism School professor,New Yorker staff writer and the author of Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), traces the roots of our current transactional culture back to its mid-century roots.

 

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