New York City’s top public high school has a diversity problem. How did the crown jewel of the city’s public education system come to look so unlike the public?
Guest: Mara Gay, writer for the New York Times Editorial Board.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.
New York City’s top public high school has a diversity problem. How did the crown jewel of the city’s public education system come to look so unlike the public?
Guest: Mara Gay, writer for the New York Times Editorial Board.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.
What we know about the Mueller report. Spoiler: not a whole lot.
Guest: Dahlia Lithwick, Slate’s legal correspondent and host of the Amicus podcast. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.
What we know about the Mueller report. Spoiler: not a whole lot.
Guest: Dahlia Lithwick, Slate’s legal correspondent and host of the Amicus podcast. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.
California has a new moratorium on executions, despite the fact that voters upheld capital punishment twice in recent statewide elections. Could this mark the beginning of a lasting policy change?
Guest: Jordan Steiker, director of the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas School of Law.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.
California has a new moratorium on executions, despite the fact that voters upheld capital punishment twice in recent statewide elections. Could this mark the beginning of a lasting policy change?
Guest: Jordan Steiker, director of the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas School of Law.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.
This week, we’re following the enormous flooding in the Midwest. Climate change is magnifying the shortcomings of our river policies. We build in the flood plains, and we bracket our rivers with dams and reservoirs. But is it folly to think that we can control where the rivers run?
Guest: Tony Messenger, metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.
This week, we’re following the enormous flooding in the Midwest. Climate change is magnifying the shortcomings of our river policies. We build in the flood plains, and we bracket our rivers with dams and reservoirs. But is it folly to think that we can control where the rivers run?
Guest: Tony Messenger, metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.
On today’s show, April Glaser and Will Oremus first talk to two researchers who’ve uncovered new information about the way the U.S. government trains its facial recognition software. According to their findings, the government uses photos of immigrants, children, and even deceased prisoners to train their programs.
Then NBC News reporter Ben Collins talks about the role of online extremism in last week’s New Zealand attacks, specifically with regard to Facebook and other platforms that allow live broadcasting. Collins also discusses how the shooter left a manifesto riddled with white supremacist signals from online communities and the difficulty of reporting on these racist communities without broadening their reach.
Some of your favorite presidents have tried to pack the Supreme Court. So why does it sound like such an extreme tactic? And why are top Democrats finally embracing it as a way out of the wilderness?