It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

We have Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore coming up later in the show.

I know we have a lot of Jill Lepore fans out there, especially those of you who read The New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore coming up later in the show. I know we have a lot of

Jill Lepore fans out there, especially those of you who read The New Yorker, but also her books.

She's got a new book, a new history of the U.S. Constitution. She and apparently Bugs Bunny,

who gets the first quoted the book, want the Constitution to be easier to amend. We'll ask her if that's a good

idea in today's political climate from her point of view. We'll also give you the chance to

call in and say, what, if you could have your way, would be the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.

We have 27 now. We'll ask Jill for hers. I think she's got a short

list of a few. And we'll invite yours as we talk with Jill Lepore coming up. But we start with

our Health and Climate Tuesday section of the show. We don't always lead with it, but we're leading

with it today because RFK Jr. is out with his promised analysis of children's health in the

United States, which he describes as a chronic disease crisis. The report describes rising rates of

asthma, diabetes, obesity, and anxiety among children. Most of you know these things. It blames

ultra-processed foods and what it calls the overuse of prescription

drugs. The report is called Make Our Children Healthy Again, part of Kennedy's larger Make America

Healthy Again, Agenda, right? It does zero in on food, chemicals, and medication as causes,

but it leaves out some of the biggest threats to kids' health

that are also real, gun violence, smoking, vaping, and access to health care itself.

Now, taking together the emissions and the focus on individual lifestyle changes

reveal a lot about how this health department

is thinking about children's health and where it wants to steer the conversation and steer policy.

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