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And this is just squeezing consumers right before the election.

Brown University has some research out where they've found that consumers in Michigan are paying an extra $2.6. billion more since the iran war started that's just on gasoline it doesn't count diesel it doesn't count interest rates this is costing the typical household almost 650 dollars more so bottom line here brianna voters were already angry about high gas prices now they're going much higher in some of the very places that could decide the balance of power in congress now

now this is unfair To present this side of the story without allowing the president of the United States to give his side of the story.

Exactly.

I'm dyslexic.

So I wasn't doing well, but when I changed that environment and had individual attention, You know, I got accepted to Brown University, Franklin and Marshall, Lehigh, schools I would have never been accepted to if somebody had not interrupted my educational choices.

And so when I got to the General Assembly, you know, as a Democrat, you're supposed to vote for, you know, public schools, more money.

And I did raise taxes, in fact, under Casey.

Needless to say, the son of the former Brazilian president, now under house arrest for his coup attempt four years ago, is also refusing to concede.

Joining us from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to discuss the role of young voters in propelling Lula's victory is James Green, Professor Emeritus of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University, and the President of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office.

He has worked on issues related to Brazil for 50 years and is the author or co-editor of 13 books related to Brazil and Latin America, including the new edition of Brazil, Five Centuries of Change.

Then we'll look into the historical record of midterm elections going against the party in control of the White House, as well as the likelihood that history will rank Donald Trump as America's worst president.

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And thank you.

And joining us now from Sao Paulo, Brazil, is James Green, Professor Emeritus of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the President of the Board of Directors of the Washington, Brazil Office.

Welcome to Background Briefing, James

Ashish Jha, I think on Friday, is with us at the library.

The COVID guy for Biden and the former head of the School of Public Health at Brown University.

How about public health things? And I have to say, virtually everybody It said the same thing, which I've tried to emphasize.

I don't know to what end.

But it's exactly what 25 years of endless war have brought us.

Experts at Brown University's Cost of War Project estimate that nearly a million people have been killed as a direct result of U.S. military violence in the Middle East since 2001.

At least half were civilians.

Another 3.8 have died from indirect effects, injuries, famine, chronic health conditions, and more.

They looked into it and turned out it was true.

At Brown University, that's an Ivy League school, of course, Brown University started suspecting that some of their students, because they had record numbers of high scores and levels of graduation, that they might be cheating and using AI on their take-home exams.

They found the evidence an abnormally large number of students with a masterful understanding that had never happened before but all of a sudden this crop of students like really intellectually gifted their understanding of welfare economics and social choice theories was just off the chart in one professor's class He usually had 30 that would announce they would take the course, take home exam.

And all of a sudden, 86 of them wanted to do that.

order to

command yeah to the extent of often having health issues with that um but they have to be able to maneuver right like a several thousand pound horse under them and and if it doesn't go well it does not go well so i found that to be fascinating the whole business around running one of these tracks was really interesting the history of it across the entire united states really fascinated me so then when i went off to go be an undergrad student and i ended up majoring in statistics i So I went to Brown University, and it turns out that when you go to the potential thesis advisors, and I leave Ivy League school, and you say, I want to write a thesis on predicting the results of horse racing.

They raise their eyeball really high.

Interesting.

Today, I'm happy to have with us Brian Mele.

He is a student at Brown University and the creator of Turbovo.

Welcome, Ryan.

Hi, Teresa.

Don Colo, the Browns' defensive captain, and their big right tackle making the tackle on that play.

Colo, 6'3", 251 pounds, from Brown University.

Cassidy is leading the ball game, and Gene Goodman comes back in with only about 50 seconds left to play in the first half.

It is third down and about three yards to go for Detroit.