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Texas Church Massacre Shows ‘The New Norm in America’

The Takeaway

Coming up on today’s show:

  • A mass shooting on Sunday shook the small town of Sutherland Springs, Texas. A lone gunman killed at least 26, and injured at least 20 others. The shooting is the deadliest in the state’s history. For details on the attack, The Takeaway turns to Lauren McGaughy, state politics reporter for the Dallas Morning News, and Fred Burton, a national security analyst and vice president of intelligence with the geopolitical intelligence firm, Stratfor.  
  • This weekend in Saudi Arabia, 11 princes were arrested, including Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the richest men in the world. One Saudi prince is also dead after he was killed in a helicopter crash near the Yemeni border. Saudi Arabia’s newly-appointed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the crackdown, in what he has called a plan to end corruption. David Kirkpatrick, The New York Time’s international reporter based in Cairo, brings us the latest. 
  • On Friday, President Donald Trump left for a 12 day trip to Asia that will take him to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and The Philippines. North Korea and trade will be top of mind as he tours the region. Katharine Moon, Wasserman chair of Asian Studies at Wellesley College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, explains what you should expect. 
  • On Election Day, New Yorkers will go to the polls to decide whether to hold a Constitutional Convention, which hasn’t happened in 50 years. Much of the debate about whether to proceed hinges on workers rights and the role of unions in the state, according to Fred Mogul, a reporter for public radio station WNYC.
  • This week, the Retro Report documentary team looks at homegrown radicalization, and what we can learn from the doomsday cults of the 1970s. Geoffrey O’Connor, a producer Retro Report, weighs in. 
  • How does race connect to the opioid crisis? Dr. Carl Hart, the chairman of the psychology department at Columbia University, says “the face of the sympathetic, suffering opioid addict who deserves help and treatment is not black.” Today on The Takeaway, Dr. Hart explore the punitive approach to drug addiction in the 1980s and how it’s different today, and how the opioid crisis is affecting minority communities across the country.

This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich.  

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