Today on Boston Public Radio:

  • We’re taking about President Donald Trump’s renewed push for border security, which includes purging the Department of Homeland Security , bringing back family separation at the border, and asking agents to not let migrants in. We opened up the lines and asked listeners: Is this the kind of border security you want?
  • Trenni Kusnierek, anchor and reporter with NBC Sports Boston, previewed Opening Day for the Boston Red Sox.
  • Is Boston’s standing as a sanctuary city on thin ice? Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, weighed in.
  • Is it the end of the line for the all-you-can-eat buffet? Corby Kummer explained the decline of this restaurant model . Kummer is a senior editor at The Atlantic, an award-winning food writer, and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition and Policy.
  • MIT economists Simon Johnson and Jonathan Gruber discussed their new book, "Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream."
  • John King, CNN’s Chief National Correspondent, went over the latest national headlines.
  • We opened up the lines and asked our listeners about the death of the all-you-can-eat buffet.