Seeking Accountability for ‘The Monster’

Coming up on today’s show:

• Former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar is due to be sentenced for sexually abusing young, female gymnasts. All told, more than 140 female athletes say Nassar assaulted them. Lindsay Gibbs is sports reporter at ThinkProgress and host of the sports and feminism podcast “Burn It All Down.” She joins The Takeaway for with the latest. 

• After a video went viral of a Baltimore hospital abandoning a mentally ill woman on the street, the practice of “patient dumping” has come under renewed scrutiny. Dr. Arthur Caplan is the director of the division of medical ethics at New York University School of Medicine. He joins The Takeaway to talk about what the practice means for health and housing equity.

• There’s a massive cloud of a colorless, toxic, highly flammable substance in the East China Sea, and it’s getting bigger. When the Iranian oil tanker Sanchi sunk this weekend off the coast of China, it brought up to one million barrels of highly flammable oil condensate along with it. Andrew Freedman, is the senior science editor at Mashable, explains. 

• Cape Town is running out of water, and quickly. The latest projection of Day Zero, or the date the water taps are set to run dry, has been moved up a week to April 22nd. Wendell Roelf, Cape Town correspondent for Reuters, discusses the dwindling water in the city. 

• Representatives from 20 nations met in Vancouver on Tuesday to discuss a nuclear deterrence strategy for North Korea. On Tuesday, The Takeaway heard the argument for tougher sanctions. Today, Dr. Kee B. Park, a Harvard Medical School global surgery scholar and the director of the North Korean program at the Korean American Medical Association, argues against sanctions and the humanitarian consequences of this strategy.

• The South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo has been around for generations. The group’s North American tour begins today in Washington State. We talked with two long-time members Thulani Shabalala, son of founder Joseph Shabalala; Albert Mazibuko, the longest-standing member since 1969;and their manager Mitch Goldstein about their music, their U.S. tour and what it feels like to be nominated for a Grammy again.

This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich.