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Thursday on BPR:
Political analyst Chuck Todd
Former Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral
Economic scholar & author Chuck Collins
Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem
Boston School Committee member Brendan Cardet Hernandez
We will be back at the BPL Studio as soon as we make some updates to the space. We will keep you posted
Recent segments
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                    Andrea Campbell: Boston Should Start School Year Fully RemoteThe city councilor says the school district hasn't answered questions about how to equitably or safely execute a hybrid model.
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                    Trump's $400 Unemployment Aid 'Not Legal,' Says Jon GruberEconomist Jon Gruber discussed President Trump's latest executive orders amid the pandemic.
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                    Plimoth Plantation’s Richard Pickering And Kate Sheehan On The Mayflower II’s ReturnPickering and Sheehan spoke about the museum’s ongoing effort to highlight the settlers' impact on the local Wampanoag tribe.
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                    Neil Gross: Reform The Police Force With New Generation Of CopsGross wonders what would happen if more people with progressive sensibilities joined the police force.
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                    Shannon O'Brien And Michael Curry On Kamala Harris As Biden's VP PickKamala Harris, named Tuesday as Joe Biden's running mate, will be the first woman of color and the fourth woman to appear on a major-party presidential ticket.
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                    Art Caplan: Antigen Testing For COVID-19 May Be Having Its MomentAntigen tests are less accurate than others, but can be administered more often and have a faster turnaround time.
Listen to previous shows
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                    Best Of BPR 11/07: AITA Trump Bumper StickersToday:We asked listeners about what you want to hear from us in the wake of Trump’s election? And you answered: All politics all the time is not what matters to you. So … Am I The A-Hole is back … When a Trump-supporting step-dad offers to let his son’s fiancée use his car – but it’s all MAGA’d out with bumper stickers – and she refuses to drive it … Is she the jerk, or is the grown man playing a prank on a teenage girl the a hole?
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                    BPR Full Show 11/7: It's ChickenNBC political director Chuck Todd joins with his reaction to Tuesday’s election.Then, we open up the phone lines to ask how Democrats can move forward after this national shift to the right and ask Trump voters why the Dems just weren't connecting with them.Former secretary of public safety Andrea Cabral talks about the implications of a GOP-controlled Senate (and possibly House) under a second Trump term. She also discusses whether Biden should pardon Trump and the future of Jack Smith’s investigation into 2020 election subversion. Former secretary of education Paul Reville reacts to Ballot Question 2, which scrapped the MCAS graduation requirement. Reville had a key role in the original implementation of MCAS, nearly 20 years ago. We then take your mind off politics by talking about chickens for five minutes. Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung discusses her latest stories on women voter turnout and her interview with Katherine Clark. It's "Am I the A-hole" day. We ask about a dad who "pranked" his kids by covering their car with Trump bumper stickers.
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                    BPR Full Show 11/6: The 47th PresidentHistorian Doris Kearns Goodwin discussed the election, historic precedence for non-consecutive terms and moreNational security analyst Juliette Kayyem on threats to this election from other nations, and internally; and how the rest of the world is respondingMichael Curry of the NAACP spent election day in Michigan poll-watching. He talked about his experience and the election results generally.
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                    Best Of BPR 11/06: Doris Kearns Goodwin & Michael CurryToday:Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks us through a stunning Trump victory last night – an overperformance from the right, and a failure from the Democrats to rally voters behind Harris.And we talk with Michael Curry, of the NAACP, about the generational shift this election in terms of race and equity.
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                    BPR Full Show 11/5: Election Day Is HereElection Day has arrived. We had numerous local political figures call into our show. Senator Elizabeth Warren, GOP candidate John Deaton, Governor Maura Healey, Attorney General Andrea Campbell, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and representatives from each ballot question.We took listeners calls throughout the show to get first hand stories on what election day is looking like.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
