Coming up on today’s show:
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Now that there has been an arrest in some of the murders, Robert Kolker, journalist and the author of Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Harper, 2013) and Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Doubleday, 2020), and Crystal DeBoise, psychotherapist, co-executive director of the Sharmus Outlaw Advocacy and Rights Institute (SOAR Institute) which advocates for those involved in the sex industry, talk about the lives of the victims found on Gilgo Beach, the vulnerabilities specific to sex workers and what’s changed for those workers in the years since the bodies were discovered.
Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters (Hachette Books, 2023) and features editor for British GQ magazine, outlines the cost to the environment of everything we discard, as well as efforts to address the crisis.
In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that restricts race-based affirmative action at colleges and universities, Richard Kahlenberg, education and housing policy consultant, nonresident scholar at Georgetown University, and opponent of race-based affirmative action, discusses the future of college admissions.
A recent New York Times article shows that the number of Americans dying each day is now normal—a sign that the pandemic is officially over. But remnants of COVID-19 still remain. Listeners share what aspects of daily life have not returned to normal since the start of lockdown in 2020.
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