When Reporters Go to War Zones; The Tobacco Playbook for Gas Utilities; Climate Pop Quiz; The American Dream; Can't-Miss Theater

Coming up on today’s show:

Caroline Drees, senior director, field safety and security at NPR, talks about how NPR deploys journalists to war zones or other dangerous places and describes what is going on behind the scenes to try to keep reporters and other staff safe.
Jeff Brady, climate and energy correspondent, shares his reporting on how the natural gas utility companies borrowed from the tobacco playbook to downplay the health risks of gas stoves.
Listeners call in to try their hand at a pop quiz based on The Brian Lehrer Show’s climate stories of the week.
With the “dream” of an ever-brighter economic future now stymied, David Leonhardt, senior writer for The New York Times who writes “The Morning,” The Times’s flagship daily newsletter and author of Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream (Random House, 2023), traces its history and offers a path to reclaiming it for future generations.
Vinson Cunningham, staff writer and theatre critic for The New Yorker and co-host of their new podcast “Critics at Large,” and the author of the forthcoming novel Great Expectations (Hogarth, 2024), shares some of the NYC theater offerings to catch this fall.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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