Fighting The Preschool-to-Prison Pipeline

Coming up on today’s show:

• On Wednesday, two more women came forward to say they received unwanted advances by Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, and yesterday allegations surfaced about Senator Al Franken, who is accused of forcibly kissing a woman and groping her while she was asleep. We look at the intersection of sexual misconduct and politics with Sheryl Gay Stolberg, domestic affairs correspondent for The New York Times.

• In 2016, an estimated 50,000 preschoolers were suspended at least once and an estimated 17,000 more children were expelled. The data also reveals that African American children were more than twice as likely as other children to be suspended or expelled from preschool. We examine the findings with Rasheed Malik, a policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, and Tunette Powell, mother of three boys, two of whom were suspended multiple times as preschoolers.

• Every Friday,Rafer Guzman, film critic for Newsday and The Takeaway, drops by to review the new releases hitting the box office. Today, a look at the new action-fantasy film “Justice League,” starring Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, and Jason Momoa; and the comedy-drama “Wonder,” starring Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, and Izabela Vidovic. 

• Yesterday in Zimbabwe, South African envoys held talks with the detained President Robert Mugabe and his army chief, in an effort to form consensus on the military coup launched earlier this week. Todd Moss, former deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, has the details. 

• On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the remains of elephants legally hunted in Zimbabwe and Zambia can now be imported to the United States, reversing a 2014 ban by President Obama. Since taking office, the Trump Administration has enacted a number of decisions affecting wildlife. Noah Greenwald, endangered species director for the Center for Biological Diversity, joins The Takeaway to discuss what that effect has been so far. 

• Story sleuth Andrew Gulli, the managing editor for The Strand Magazine, has discovered a never-published short story by Raymond Chandler, “It’s All Right-He Only Died.” In the story, Chandler tackles the healthcare crisis head on, writing about a drunk vagrant with a serious head injury who is treated poorly in an emergency room. 

This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich