National Politics; COVID-19 in India and Israel; NYC Students With Disabilities Are Back to School; Colin Quinn's America - a podcast by WNYC

Coming up on today's show:

Amber Phillips, Washington Post political reporter and author for The Fix, and Errol Louis, political anchor of Spectrum NY1 News, host of Inside City Hall, Daily News columnist and host of the podcast You Decide, talk about the latest national political news, from the Senate jockeying on RBG's replacement to the news that the Justice Department named New York City an "anarchist jurisdiction."

Ramanan Laxminarayan, economist, epidemiologist and founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has played out in India, which is on track to surpass the United States as the country with the most cases worldwide—plus in other places around world, including Israel, which recently instituted a second full lockdown.

Lori Podvesker, director of disability and education policy at IncludeNYC, talks about the special challenges students and families in NYC's district 75, which services students with disabilities, face as the new school year begins.

Colin Quinn, stand-up comedian, writer, performer and the author of Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States (St. Martin's Press, 2020), offers his distinctive observations on the crazy-quilt design of this country and the contradictions and consternations of the 50 separate, but united, states of America.

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