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A More Representative House; 'Money Milestones' for Your 40s; From the Archives: Jimmy Carter; Nutrition Myths; Queens Museum
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 1, 2023
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As part of a year-long series on ways of improving U.S. democracy, Danielle Allen, Washington Post contributing columnist and a political theorist at Harvard University, where she is James Bryant Conant University Professor and director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, and the author of Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus (University of Chicago Press, 2022) and the forthcoming Justice by Means of Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2023), proposes expanding the number of members of the House of Representatives, currently capped at 435.
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Michelle Singletary, personal finance columnist for The Washington Post, offers advice for listeners in their forties on some money goals and milestones they should aim to hit in this decade.
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Just over a week ago, the Carter Center announced that Jimmy Carter had entered hospice care. In this excerpt from The Brian Lehrer Show archives, the former president reflects on the role of religion in his life.
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All this week, The Brian Lehrer Show will be taking a closer look at some of the most pervasive nutrition myths with Sophie Egan, author of How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet (Workman, 2020), and contributor to The New York Times. Today, busting the myth that white potatoes are unhealthy and that plant-based milks are better for you than cow's milk with Sophie Egan and Daphene Altema-Johnson, program officer with the Food Communities & Public Health Program at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.Â
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This week hear about some soon-to-close art shows around town. Today: Lindsey Berfond, assistant curator and studio programs manager at Queens Museum, talks about two exhibits she organized that close on Sunday: Xaviera Simmons' "Crisis Makes a Book Club" and Charisse Pearlina Weston's "of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust".
