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Monday Morning Politics; City Council Redistricting Problems; How 'Period Pills' Relate to the Abortion Debate; Has the Timing of Your Social Life Shifted?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 26, 2022

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief and the author of Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power (Twelve, 2021), talks about the latest news from Washington, including a spending bill that might be held up by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and the upcoming January 6th hearing.

  • Dennis Walcott, chair of the New York City Council Redistricting Commission and CEO and president of the Queens Public library system, talks about the revised Council District maps, which the commission voted not to advance to the Council for approval, and where the process goes from here.

  • Abby Wendle, producer at NPR's Invisibilia podcast, and Cari Sietstra, member of The National Working Group on Period Pills in the U.S. and co-founder of Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants, join with a "thought experiment" on how so-called period pills could offer a compromise in the abortion debate.

  • Listeners call in to discuss whether or not they are making their dinner and drinks reservations earlier because of social shifts caused by the pandemic. Restaurant and bar workers weigh in on how the shift in time preferences has affected the service industry.

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

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