On today’s show, catch up with some recent interviews:
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Felix Salmon, chief financial correspondent for Axios, host of the Slate Money Podcast, and author of The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal (Harper Business, 2023), talks about the effect of the pandemic on the economy — negative and positive.
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1993 saw the inauguration of a Democratic U.S. president and a Republican mayor of New York, Bill Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. Here, Bill Bratton, former New York City police commissioner and the author (with Peter Knobler) of The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America (Penguin Press, 2021), followed by Al Sharpton, civil rights leader, host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation, founder and president of the National Action Network (NAN) and the author of Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America (Hanover Square Press, 2022), look back at the effect of the Clinton crime bill and the Giuliani administration’s policies.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report in February that showed an increase in teenagers struggling with their mental health, and the American Academy of Pediatrics has declared mental health challenges for teens a “national emergency.” Lisa Damour, psychologist, co-host of the podcast “Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Parenting” and author of several books, including The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescent (Ballantine Books, 2023), shares coping strategies and talks about when parents and teenagers should seek help.
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Simone Stolzoff, journalist and the author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work (Portfolio, 2023), argues for reframing how Americans see work.
These interviews were edited slightly for rebroadcast; the original versions are available here:The Pandemic and the Economy (May 12, 2023)
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