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President-elect Joe Biden's deputy campaign manager discussed the win, and what comes next.

Walsh says he's focused on being mayor, not a Biden cabinet position, but won't say whether he's actually running.

Voter suppression has existed for decades, but Cabral says it has never been so blatant.

President Trump has emboldened the rise of Patriotic Churches, which disrupt the separation of church and state, the Revs say.

The congresswoman said America is due for a third Reconstruction period during a Monday interview on "Boston Public Radio."

Though Steves runs a company that’s decidedly apolitical, he admitted that he's worried about the future of American democracy if Trump wins his reelection bid.

BPR Full Show 6/10: Fact From Fiction

Today:Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett of the Boston Medical Center joins to discuss the latest medical headlines.And, ahead of this year’s Embrace Ideas Festival, we talk with Embrace Boston CEO Imari Paris Jeffries. Plus, joining Imari both at the festival – and today’s show – Giselle Byrd. She’s the first Black trans woman to lead a regional theatre company in the United States at Boston’s The Theater Offensive.

BPR Full Show 6/9: National Guard In Los Angeles

Today:Trump deployed the national guard in California, without the consent of Governor Gavin Newsom. We talk through the existential questions of presidential authority with retired federal judge Nancy Gertner. Plus, her suspicions about the government's new charges of human trafficking against a man they wrongly deported, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.And, journalist Adam Chandler argues in his new book “99% Perspiration” that the American Dream equating hard work with success has turned out to be more of an American fantasy.

WSJ Callum Borchers & GBH Adam Reilly for Press Play this week. They’ll discuss the latest efforts to defund PBS & NPR. The Light in the Piazza is the latest musical at the Huntington Theatre Company. We’ll hear performances from leads Sarah-Anne Martinez and Josh Grosso for this week’s edition of Live Music Friday.Dan Primack, business editor at Axios, joins to talk about steel tariffs, the latest re: the GOP megabill.Parke Wilde, Julia Hansen, and Peter Watson were arrested last year protesting the expansion of Hanscom airfield. Their cases are winding their way through court now, they join to talk about the case.