hello and welcome to the 2021 library of congress national book festival. i am a reporter at the washington post and i am here with patrick and eric fire to talk about their books on the opioid epidemic which has claimed the lives of more than 500,000 peopleg the worst drug epidemic in american history. i spent the last three years from the investigative team about the crisis and i m actually already writing a book myself on the epidemic with my colleague so i m particularly thrilled to introduce you to two offers whose work and books i greatly admire. patrick, an award-winning writer at the new yorker is the author of the new york times bestseller empire of pain the secret history of the dynasty and eric won a pulitzer prize for his reporting on opioids and is now reporter at the spotlight in west virginia as the author of a cold country fight against the drug companies yet developed the opioid epidemic. let me start with you and your devastating, absolutely devastating
post-9/11 period, and how both the government and his own paper the new york times suppressed his reporting, including on the bush administrations warrantless wiretapping program, for which he later won the pulitzer prize. after i told him what was going to be in my book, what they said was, ok, we will think about putting it in the paper but thehey were not committed to it. they wanted to negotiate again with the government. there was a whole series of new meetings with the government. which was refreshed rating to me. amy: james risen describes meeting with top officials at the cia and the white house. his refusal to name a source would take them to the supreme court. he almost wound up in jail until the obama administration blanked. blinked. the hour.es risen for all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the trump administration has proposed allowing offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all
his reporting, including on the bush administrations warrantless wiretapping program, for which he later won the pulitzer prize. after i told him what was going to be in my book, what they said was, ok, we will think about putting it in the paper but they were not committed to it. they wanted to negotiate again with the government. there was a whole series of new meetings with the government. which was refreshed rating to me. amy: james risen describes meeting with top officials at the cia and the white house. his refusal to name a source would take them to the supreme court. he almost wound up in jail until the obama administration blanked. blinked. the hour.es risen for all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the trump administration has proposed allowing offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all of the united states coastal waters. the reversal of the obama-era restrictions would open more
post-9/11 period, and how both the government and his own paper the new york times suppressed his reporting, including on the bush administrations warrantless wiretapping program, for which he later won the pulitzer prize. after i told him what was going to be in my book, what they said was, ok, we will think about putting it in the paper but thehey were not committed to it. they wanted to negotiate again with the government. there was a whole series of new meetings with the government. which was refreshed rating to me. amy: james risen describes meeting with top officials at the cia and the white house. his refusal to name a source would take them to the supreme court. he almost wound up in jail until the obama administration blanked. blinked. the hour.es risen for all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the trump administration has proposed allowing offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all
why this could have all been resolved and why many people are saying it reeks of race. new details about the man who attacked students at ohio state. isis is claiming responsibility. abdul razak ali artan was a student at the school. officials are looking at his social media posts. some of them listing out grieveances about attacks on they say terrorist propaganda from isis inspired that teen to carry out the attacks. for those attacked, they say it all happened so fast. i turned to go back in the building. all of a sudden, there s banging in the cars there. i get flipped in the air. it all happened so fast. literally at least it seemed to me, literally within 15, 30 seconds i heard the shots. and it was over. they are also offering an outreach for those who need somebody to talk to. terrorism experts are taking a closer look at that 18-year-old who carried out the difficult. as scott thuman explains, it s difficult to defend again. reporter: the attack was shoc