On today’s show:
-
The Biden administration announced which drugs that will be part of its price negotiations for patients on Medicare. Jonathan Cohn, senior national reporter at HuffPost, lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the author of The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage (St. Martin’s Press, 2021), talks about how it will work, how it will affect out-of-pocket costs for patients and what could go wrong.
-
Last week, a man died after an NYPD officer knocked him off of his motorcycle during a police pursuit. Bahar Ostadan, WNYC and Gothamist reporter covering the NYPD and public safety, reports the latest on the incident, whether the officer will face any accountability and examines how police pursuits are supposed to be conducted.
-
Jill Lepore, professor of American History at Harvard University, staff writer at The New Yorker, host of the podcasts The Last Archive and Elon Musk and the author of several books, including These Truths, talks about her new collection of essays, The Deadline (Liveright, 2023), most of which focused on the relationship between America’s past and its polarized present.
-
With the J’ouvert and the West Indian Day Parade coming up this weekend, Sandra Bell, producer and production stage manager for JouveyFest Collective, CEO of JourneyAgents, and a curator of the exhibit J’ouvert Genesis Immersive Experience at Lefferts Historic House, and Gail Yvette Davis, retired economist and veteran Carnival participant, talk about J’Ouvert’s origins in Trinidad and Tobago and the next exhibit about it in Prospect Park.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
Read the full article here
Leave a Reply