Signs of Trade War as China Slams Tariffs on U.S. Exports

Here’s what you’ll find on today’s show:

— Early in March, President Trump boasted that in a potential trade war between the U.S. and China, the U.S. would easily prevail. This statement came just a couple of weeks before announcing that he would impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and on potentially an estimated $60 billion worth of Chinese goods, sparking fears of retaliation. On Monday, investors’ anxieties were realized in a financial riposte from China: retaliatory tariffs of up to 25 percent on 128 American-made goods ranging from wine and pork to steel piping, scrap aluminum and an assortment of fruit and nut products.

— The word ‘adolescence’ describes the transition from late childhood to early adulthood. But there is no commonly-used word that encompasses a similar transition for women into motherhood. We hear a lot about postpartum depression, but what about the other real changes that a woman experiences which don’t fit into that category? They’re not top of mind for much of the medical community, says one reproductive psychiatrist. She’s calling on doctors and women to use a term borrowed from anthropology, “matrescence,” to encourage more open dialogue about the transition.

— The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years ago punctuated a decade of progress, built on generations of activism and defined by the many successes during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. But while the movement lost its most visible leader in 1968, Dr. King’s dream lives on through the work being undertaken by those committed to dismantling institutional racism and building a world that lives up to his lofty ideals.

— When we think of wildlife and quote unquote natural environments, we think of untouched forests and jungles, pristine waterways, and sprawling hills and countrysides. One place we don’t think of is cities. But that type of thinking no longer matches up to our world, according to Menno Schilthuizen. He’s the author of the new book out today, called “Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution.”