Monday Morning Politics; NYC Caps Third-Party Delivery Fees; High School Seniors' College Plans; Time Out of Time

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 18, 2020

On today's show:

  • USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page discusses the latest COVID-19 relief package in the House and the latest developments in national politics;
  • Last week, NYC's City Council passed a bill to temporarily cap delivery fees from apps like Grubhub. Rebeca Ibarra, producer and reporter for WNYC, breaks down the move, how it may help restaurants stay afloat during the pandemic, and who will have to pick up the costs.
  • Lilah Burke, reporter at Inside Higher Ed, reports on the fall plans for colleges and universities as high school seniors call in to share how the uncertainty is affecting their plans;
  • The quarantine feels like it's going on forever, but the days are flying by.  Adrian Bardon, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University and the author of the book A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time (Oxford University Press 2013), explains how pandemic conditions warps our sense of time. Plus Philip Gable, director of experimental programs at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, describes how science is trying to capture how people's time perceptions with a national survey.

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