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Baltimore’s Mayor Embroiled in Children’s Book Scandal

There are questions about Mayor Catherine Pugh’s self-published kids book, and whether or not buyers were given access to government influence.

The Death of the Lyell Glacier

Yosemite National Park’s Lyell Glacier is dying. Writer Dan Duane joined Yosemite geologist Greg Stock in a hike up to the glacier, which is now a fraction of its original size.

Making Arab American Theater

Muslim and Arab American theater are having a moment. But the communities at the hearts of these shows fear they will only garner attention if they are about that identity.

Guests:

Alec MacGillis

Liz Bowie

Dan Duane

Greg Stock

Jamil Khoury

Yussef El Guindi

October 04, 2016:

1. Running Mate Reconnaissance: What We Know About the VP Candidates (5 min)

2. Debate Prep: What It’s Like to Coach VP Candidates (6 min)

3. Syria Watch: U.S. Suspends Talks with Russia (7 min)

4. Baltimore Bloodshed: Violence Surges in The Charm City (4 min)

5. Marilyn Mosby’s Fall From Grace (7 min)

6. A Remorseful Executioner Fights to Abolish the Death Penalty (8 min)

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.

The Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland is known for one of it’s most successful residents: Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice.  The neighborhood is also known, more infamously, as the home of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who was fatally injured while in police custody last April.

The outcry and protests that followed Gray’s death have shined a spotlight on what remains one of the nation’s most segregated and poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Despite being near some of America’s most prestigious hospitals, Sandtown-Winchester residents, on average, die a decade earlier than the average American. Life expectancy is similar to that of impoverished North Korea.

In a special report for Kaiser Health News, reporter Jay Hancock examines why healthcare in Sandtown-Winchester is elusive, and how Baltimore is making efforts to bridge the medical divide.    

1. A Socialist President? Bernie Sanders Makes His Case | 2. Aid Organizations Race Against the Clock in Nepal | 3. Amid Crisis, Nepalis Turn to Buddhist Culture | 4. Artist Vijay Iyer on Finding Music in Empty Spaces | 5. SCOTUS: Unlike Politicians, Judges Need Limits on Campaign Cash | 6. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Plays Free Concert to Lift City’s Spirits

1. A Socialist President? Bernie Sanders Makes His Case | 2. Aid Organizations Race Against the Clock in Nepal | 3. Amid Crisis, Nepalis Turn to Buddhist Culture | 4. Artist Vijay Iyer on Finding Music in Empty Spaces | 5. SCOTUS: Unlike Politicians, Judges Need Limits on Campaign Cash | 6. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Plays Free Concert to Lift City’s Spirits

In a special extended interview, actor Wendell Pierce of “The Wire” discusses the unrest in Baltimore, inequality, and police brutality. The New York Time Jerusalem Bureau Chief also drops by to weigh in on her search for empathy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.