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Got Trust? Exploring Faith and Suspicion in the 21st Century


Many Americans have lost trust in U.S. institutions, politicians, and the media. Today, The Takeaway explores what it means to trust after the 2016 election. Here's what you'll find in this special podcast:
<ul><li>Looking for universal truths in a 'post-truth' world. <a href="https://twitter.com/rebel19">Rebecca Carroll</a>, producer of special projects on race at WNYC explains how trust can be shaken up when one group interprets an event differently from another. </li>
</ul><ul><li>As the public watches the crisis in Flint, Michigan unfold, many Americans have begun to lose trust in their water sources, and the governmental agencies that claim it's safe. Environmental activist <a href="https://twitter.com/ErinBrockovich">Erin Brockovich</a> explores the fight for clean water.</li>
</ul><ul><li>A 2016 <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.aspx">Gallup poll</a> found that 73 percent of Americans trust the military. But retired Army Colonel <a href="http://www.bu.edu/history/people/emeritus-faculty/andrew-j-bacevich/">Andrew Bacevich</a> is worried about our nation's inability to decide on a core set of values.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Pulitzer Prize-winning author <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lords-Finance-Bankers-Broke-World/dp/0143116800">Liaquat Ahamed</a>, the former head of the World Bank’s investment division, is no stranger to the intricacies of global financial markets. He examines American distrust of financial institutions, and Wall Street in particular, which he argues is a recurrent theme in this country, dating from the time of George Washington. </li>
</ul><ul><li>Former New York Times Public Editor <a href="https://twitter.com/Sulliview">Margaret Sullivan</a> reflects on the public's distrust of the American media, and how consumers choose news sources that echo their own political views.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Radio personality and relationship guru <a href="https://twitter.com/delilahradio">Delilah</a> takes a break from counseling her millions of devoted listeners to talk trust in love and relationships with The Takeaway.</li>
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The Takeaway

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Trump Looks for a Reset, An Emotional Release, The Music of Resistance 


Coming up on today's show:
<ul><li>In a prime time address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump laid out this policy priorities and called on the House and Senate to work together. Today The Takeaway hears from three voters — a Republican who voted for Trump, a Democrat who voted for Trump, and a Republican who didn't vote for Trump — to find out what they thought of the president's address. Shirl St. Germain is a former restaurant owner in Marco Island, Florida, <a href="https://twitter.com/kenalanci">Kenneth Lanci</a> is founder of Consolidated Solutions a business in Cleveland, and Hal Scoggins is an attorney from Portland, Oregon. </li>
</ul><ul><li>On Monday, bomb threats were called into Jewish schools and community centers in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, in what is the fifth wave of threats in the past two months. <a href="https://www.jewishannarbor.org/about-us/our-staff">David Shtulman</a>, director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, weighs in on the attacks. </li>
</ul><ul><li>Every 20 years, Florida amends its constitution through the Constitution Revision Commission — the only state with such a body. The members of the 2017-18 Constitution Revision Commission are being named this month. For details on this process and how the state's Constitution may change, we turn to <a href="http://www.law.fsu.edu/our-faculty/profiles/dalemberte">Sandy D'Alemberte</a>, president emeritus of Florida State University and a former state legislator who chaired the Constitution Revision Commission in 1977-78.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Today, the Texas Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a Houston case challenging the city’s benefit policy for same-sex couples, despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on same sex marriage in 2015. <a href="https://twitter.com/evanwolfson">Evan Wolfson</a>, founder and president of Freedom To Marry, discusses the case. </li>
</ul><ul><li>In part III of our series, "<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/series/commuted-life-after-prison">Commuted: Life After Prison</a>," we meet Aaron Glasscock for the first time as a free man. As Aaron is set free, he quickly learns that life outside looks much different than he remembered it. He’s both worried and optimistic about the future, hoping that the skills he gained in prison will be enough to get him a job. He’s also set rules for himself to help set his life on a positive course. </li>
</ul><ul><li>Indian-American and Muslim musician <a href="https://twitter.com/zeshanbagewadi">Zeshan Bagewadi</a> discusses his cover of George Perkins' civil rights-era song "Cryin' in the Streets." Perkins originally wrote the song in 1970 as a reaction to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.</li>
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Who Would You Be Without Them?

Think of an important person in your life. Now imagine you never met. Our guest practices counting his blessings by picturing his life without a special person from his past.

The Science of Happiness 

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How to Connect When You Must Stay Apart

Do you want to be famous? What's a favorite memory? These 36 questions can bring you closer to loved ones, even if you're separated.

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How to Reconnect with Your Partner

A couple try a practice to bring more excitement and passion into their relationship, even while sheltering-in-place.

Technology

Can you swipe your way to new friends?

Ariya Tok poses with her fellow graduates after they received their certificates at a Cambodian cultural graduation ceremony at Cal State Long Beach.

The World's Global Classroom

Cambodian American graduates: More than victims of genocide

Ukraine

Ukrainians embrace tattoos as a form of patriotism

Brazilian Congress moves to limit Indigenous land claims 

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić (15) shoots over Miami Heat guard Kyle Lowry (7) during the second half of Game 1 of basketball's NBA Finals, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Denver. 

Sports

Nikola Jokić takes center stage at NBA Finals and Serbian fans are loving it

This blues musician fled Russia for Serbia. But he sounds like he came straight from the Mississippi Delta.

Refugees

A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished. A frantic phone call helped untangle the mystery.

Ayyad Mohmmed Ali works on his farm where he grows date palm trees and vegetables, Iraq.

The Big Fix

This startup is fighting to keep Iraq’s palm trees alive

Investigation begins into India’s deadly train crash

Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people

Military

A conversation with a former member of Wagner: ‘They were like little kings or czars’

Culture

How traditional couples changed the definition of marriage and opened the doors for same-sex weddings

The homepage of the Ashley Madison website is displayed on an iPad, in this photo illustration taken in Ottawa, Canada July 21, 2015. 

Canadian infidelity is alive and thriving in the hotbed of cheating, Ottawa

Maintaining real relationships in the digital world

For 'lone wolf' terrorists, the motivation for violence isn’t always hate

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