Answering the Texas Redistricting Strategy; Wildfires, Air Quality and Climate Change; Private Insurers Cover Drugs Less Often Now; Changing Social Media Habits

• Texas announced plans for off-cycle redistricting to add GOP seats before the midterm elections.  New York State Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris (D 12th, Astoria, LIC, Sunnyside) and New York State Assemblymember Micah Lasher, (D, AD 69, UWS, Morningside Heights, Manhattan Valley) explain the proposed amendment to the NYS Constitution to require mid-decade redistricting if another state makes that move.
  
  
• Radley Horton, professor of climate at Columbia University's Climate School, connects the dots between hotter temperatures, NYC's air quality alerts and Canadian wildfires.
  
  
• Sarah Kliff, investigative health care reporter for The New York Times, talks about her new reporting on an uptick in health insurers denying prescription drug claims over the last decade.
  
  
• As social media has been overtaken by influencers and ads, listeners call in to share how what they see on the various platforms has changed, and how what they post (if they do at all!) has in turn changed.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.