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The Gun Violence Plaguing Us; Albany Update: Discovery Reform?; Why Trucks Have Taken Over; College Admissions in the Age of TikTok
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 13, 2023
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Jonathan Metzl, professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and director of its Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, director of research at the Tennessee Safety Project and the author of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Basic Books, 2019), talks about the sharp resistance to gun control measures in red states, while at the same time guns are now the leading cause of death for children in the United States.
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With negotiations over the NYS budget in overtime over criminal justice reform, Kalle Condliffe, staff attorney with Criminal Defense Practice’s Training Unit at the Legal Aid Society, argues against weakening the discovery reform law enacted in 2019, despite pushback from prosecutors who argue it's leading to case dismissals.
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Andrew Van Dam, department of data columnist for The Washington Post, discusses the latest news on how trucks have overtaken American roadways and what the future might look like.
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Jay Caspian Kang, staff writer for The New Yorker, documentary film director, and the author of The Loneliest Americans (Crown, 2021), offers thoughts about pressure, rejection and teen unhappiness in the context of college admissions in the TikTok age
