Reimagining Monuments; Notes on Regeneron; 30 Issues: Restorative Justice; SCOTUS Hearings Begin - a podcast by WNYC

Coming up on today's show: 

The Mellon Foundation plans to re-imagine monuments over the next five years, to highlight underrepresented groups or stories and re-think current offensive monuments and memorials. On the day many now celebrate as Indigenous Peoples' Day, Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, talks about the group's plans and what they hope to achieve.
Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times reporter focusing on science and global health, talks about how President Trump's treatments for COVID-19 were developed in fetal stem cells and the history -- and controversy -- surrounding the scientific practice of stem cell research.
Restorative justice in schools was embraced by the Obama administration as a way to break the school to prison pipeline and address the racial disparities in suspensions and expulsions, but Parkland father Andrew Pollack singles it out as a factor in the shooting that killed his daughter and so many others. 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, talks about the policy and the politics around it.
John Dickerson, CBS 60 Minutes correspondent, a contributing writer to The Atlantic, co-host of Slate's Political Gabfest podcast, host of the Whistlestop podcast and the author of The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency (Random House, 2020), talks about the latest news from Washington, including the start of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

 

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