Monday Morning Politics; Tracking Evictions; Student Loan Repayment; Suffering from "Campsickness"

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 21, 2023

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) and a forthcoming biography of Barbara Walters, rounds up the latest news from Washington, including a look ahead to Wednesday's GOP debate in Milwaukee.

  • David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC/Gothamist, talks about the new project tracking evictions, on the rise again after a moratorium during the COVID health emergency.

  • In a few weeks, millions of Americans will start paying on their federal students loans for the first time in three years. In preparation, Stacy Cowley, finance reporter at The New York Times, explains the changes Pres. Biden's administration has made to the system.

  • Sandra Fox, visiting assistant professor of American Jewish history at New York University, and director of the Archive of the American Jewish Left in the Digital Age, founder and executive producer of the Yiddish-language podcast "Vaybertaytsh: A Feminist Podcast in Yiddish," and the author of The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America (Stanford University Press, 2023), shares memories of missing camp when it's over for the summer—even if you missed home when it started.

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