Looking ahead to the 2024 election; plus, getting "sober curious" for Dry January

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

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Summary

This week, host Brittany Luse is starting with the biggest story of the year - the upcoming presidential election. The economy, foreign policy, reproduction rights have all been top of mind lately - but how will these issues play out in the voting booth? NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben and Domenico Montanaro join the show to talk about what might sway voters in November.

Next, Brittany tackles a popular New Year's tradition: Dry January. Last year, one out of every seven American adults participated in Dry January, and one in three say they want to drink less in general. Writer and journalist Ana Marie Cox joins the show to discuss the growing interest in sobriety. She shares what's contributed to this "non-alcoholic" moment, who benefits, and the lessons she's learned as a recovering alcoholic.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:03.0	Hello, I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's been a minute from NPR.
0:07.0	A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:13.0	2024 is not just any year, it's an election year and there is a lot at stake on the
0:28.4	road to November.
0:30.0	Since the last presidential election, we've been through a lot.
0:33.2	An ongoing pandemic, growing income equality, housing insecurity, proxy wars, culture wars.
0:39.2	I mean, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
0:42.1	To top it off, it's starting to look like we'll have to
0:44.8	make a choice between the same two candidates from 2020, Joe Biden and Donald
0:50.3	Trump. And let me be clear, Trump is not the official candidate, but he is dominating
0:55.7	in the polls. I don't know about you, but this is feeling like deja vu. To help parse through
1:02.2	what to expect in the coming months, I'm joined by Danielle Kurt Slavin, a political
1:06.6	correspondent at NPR, and Domenico Montanaro, a senior political editor at NPR. Danielle Domenico, welcome to it's been a minute.
1:17.0	Hey there.
1:18.0	Hey, thanks for having us.
1:19.0	Oh my gosh, my pleasure, my pleasure.
1:21.0	One of the big things that everybody's thinking about this
1:24.0	year with the election is the economy and it feels like something that's often
1:28.5	talked about in elections is like inflation, job creation, interest rates. And I think what matters for voters, what
1:36.9	matters to me is if they can actually afford their lives. And lately we've
1:41.6	been hearing that the economy is getting better
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