On today's show:
- Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's Political Gabfest podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), talks about her reporting on why Big Tech is policing speech and disinformation, how state legislatures are working to restrict voting rights and more national political news.
- John Volckens, professor of mechanical engineering and the director of the Center for Energy Development and Health at Colorado State University, breaks down mask-wearing best practices and takes your calls.
- The Greene Space has launched a new series about the business side of the prison industry, everything from prison labor to companies who contract with prisons to provide health care, food and other services. Who profits when people get put away? Up first, a conversation about prison design and construction with Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises’s executive director, Johnny Perez, the director of the U.S. Prisons Program for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, and Raphael Sperry, a leader of Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility, where he leads a national campaign to ban the design of spaces that violate human rights, and a board member of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, the first architecture and development firm dedicated to ending mass incarceration through building restorative alternatives.
- Heather Butts, assistant professor at Long Island University, lecturer at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and co-founder and executive director of H.E.A.L.T.H. for Youths, shares the stories of relatively unknown people of color who have had significant impact in medicine and public health throughout history.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.