COVID Update; The Right's Fascination with Hungary; In India, Climate Change Has Arrived; Restaurant Check In
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 20, 2022
Coming up on today's show:
- Katelyn Jetelina, author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist and director of Population Health Analytics at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, shares an update on BA.2, the threat of additional omicron sublineages, and more, as the public health emergency endures.
- Kim Lane Scheppele, professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, discusses the American conservative movement's obsession with Viktor Orbán and Hungary’s authoritarian nationalism.
- For over a month, India has been experiencing record-shattering high temperatures. Roxy Mathew Koll, climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune, India, joins to discuss how these temperatures are tied to climate change, and how residents are coping.
- Earlier this week, Grubhub announced New Yorkers could order a free lunch -- but they apparently didn't tell restaurants in the city the plan, and chaos ensued. So for people who own or work in restaurants, call in and tell us how things are going -- from the Grubhub debacle to dealing with the latest COVID upswing and more.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
