After the shooting.

Coming up on today’s show: 

• The VERA Project has embarked on a national experiment to re-examine mass incarceration and its failings. Nicholas Turner, president and director of the VERA Institute of Justice, he says a tour of prisons in Germany was the catalyst for his initiative to re-think the prison system in the United States.

• The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved strong economic sanctions against North Korea on Saturday. But is the resolution enough to weaken North Korea’s nuclear program? Stephen Noerper, senior director with The Korea Society, an adjunct professor at Columbia University, and a former senior analyst at the U.S. Department of State, weighs in. 

• An explosion went off Saturday morning in a Minnesota mosque as worshipers gathered to pray. No one was injured in the attack, which the state’s governor called “an act of terrorism.” Stephen Montemayor, a reporter for the Star Tribune in Minnesota, has been covering the story as it develops, and he joins The Takeaway to discuss the attack. 

• In December 2015, 18-year-old Mario Woods was shot more than 20 times by the San Francisco Police Department. San Francisco-based journalist Jaeah Lee spent months with his mother, Gwen Woods, as she struggled with her grief in the national spotlight. Lee joins The Takeaway to discuss her new story,  “After the Shooting: A Year in the Life of Gwen Woods.”

• What does it mean to be an American? Vikrum Aiyer explores this existential question in his new podcast, “American Enough,” produced by MouthMedia Network. Aiyer, a former senior policy adviser to President Obama, aims to have conversations that explore big issues like gender and race-based discrimination that fuel the country’s divisions.