The Brian Lehrer Show

David D. Kirkpatrick, staff writer for The New Yorker, breaks down his tally of President Donald Trump profiteering during his presidencies, including five Persian Gulf mega-projects, a luxury jet from Qatar and half a dozen projects involving crypto and MAGA merch.

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Filip Balunović, research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, explains the recent protests in Serbia, where a student-led movement is fighting back against an entrenched autocratic government that is aligned both with autocratic powers in the East, like Russia and China, and democratic powers in the West, like European Union and The United States.

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Kids who were in kindergarten when the pandemic hit in March of 2020 are now starting middle school. Parents call in to talk about the lingering educational and social effects of the pandemic that they have noticed in their school-aged kids.

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Jacob Shamsian, legal correspondent at Business Insider, talks about the latest developments in the Epstein saga as several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein urge Congress to act.

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David Cruz, senior political correspondent and anchor, and moderator of Chat Box and Reporters Roundtable at NJ Spotlight News, talks about the latest news on the New Jersey gubernatorial race and how the state's changing voter demographics are impacting the candidates' campaign strategies. 

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Ben Smith, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, and the author of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral (Penguin Press, 2023), shares his analysis for how the president has come for civil servants, and what it might mean for the government bureaucracy in the future.

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Elizabeth Kim, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, talks about the latest news in the mayoral campaign. Plus Jon Campbell, WNYC and Gothamist Albany reporter, reports on the news that longtime Manhattan Congressman Jerry Nadler will retire next year, paving the way for generational change for the coveted seat.

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Emma Goldberg, business features writer for The New York Times, reporting on cultural, societal and economic change, and the author of Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic (Harper, 2021), talks about her recent exploration of whether today's self-help books go too far in encouraging paying less attention to other people.
→ Is Today’s Self-Help Teaching Everyone to Be a Jerk?

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Caroline Lewis, health care reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about the availability of COVID vaccines this fall and how the FDA's changes are resulting in different access across the states and at pharmacies.

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With so many iconic bands on tour again this summer, listeners call in to share what legendary acts they've seen recently and how the bands did -- or didn't -- stand the test of time.

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