
OxyContin Makers Settle Opioid Lawsuit; Budget Talks Continue; The State of Gillibrand 2020; For the Women in the Marines
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 27, 2019
Coming up today:
- Barry Meier, former New York Times reporter and the author of Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic (Random House, 2018), talks about the news that Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family — the makers of OxyContin — reached a settlement with the state of Oklahoma, and that major cultural institutions are now refusing Sackler money.
- Fred Mogul, WNYC government and state politics reporter, discusses the latest developments on the budget talks in Albany as negotiations enter their final week before the April 1 deadline.
- Brigid Bergin, City Hall and politics reporter for WNYC, talks about how New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's 2020 campaign is going so far, and looks at some of her key policy issues.
- Anuradha Bhagwati, writer, activist, yoga and meditation teacher, Marine Corps veteran, founder of the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) and the author of Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience (Atria Books, 2019), shares her story of the challenges she faced in life and in the Marine Corps.


