Krugman on Inflation; Changes to Gifted & Talented; Deforestation in the Amazon; Your Calls on Observing Holidays by Abstaining

Coming up on today's show: 

• Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics, New York Times columnist, distinguished professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and the author of (now in paperback) Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), discusses last month's Consumer Price Index, released Tuesday, and the politics of inflation as Democrats and Republicans play the blame game.

• The Department of Education announced an expansion to the city schools' gifted and talented program. Christina Veiga, reporter for Chalkbeat New York, explains how it will work, what critics are saying and more.
  

• According to a recent article in the New York Times, the Amazon forest in Brazil has lost an area as big as Belgium since Jair Bolsonaro became president in 2019. Manuela Andreoni, writer for The New York Times Climate Forward newsletter, who is based in Brazil and a former fellow at the Rainforest Investigation Network, covering the Brazilian Amazon, discusses what Bolsonaro's potential re-election would mean for deforestation in the country and climate change on a global scale.

• As three major religious holidays overlap today, listeners share what it means to them to give up something for Lent, fast for Ramadan, or go without leavened bread during Passover.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.