Sunset Park Test & Trace; Changing Political Campaigns; Why the Millennials Are Mad; The Meaning of Kamala Harris to Indian-Americans

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 13, 2020

Coming up on today's show:

  • Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is experiencing an uptick in COVID-19 cases. Dr. Ted Long, primary care physician and executive director of the Test & Trace Corps, talks about how the city's test and trace program is helping to tamp it down in the community, and prevent it from spreading further.
  • With the national party conventions about to start, Elizabeth Drew, long-time journalist and author of Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall (The Overlook Press, 2014), and Molly Ball, Time Magazine's national political correspondent and the author of Pelosi (Henry Holt and Co., 2020), talk about how campaigns are different this year — and Elizabeth Drew's call to end the presidential debates.
  • Jill Filipovic, an attorney and feminist author of OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2020), argues the baby boom generation set the millennials up for economic failure.
  • Manisha Sinha, professor of American history at the University of Connecticut and the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press, 2017), talks about why Joe Biden's selection of Senator Kamala Harris, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, to be his choice for VP is so meaningful to her and other Indian-Americans.

For transcripts, see individual segment pages.

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