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The presidential candidate who ran on the promise of a universal basic income is calling for recurring checks during the coronavirus pandemic.

Working conditions within meat packing plants require close quarters to colleagues, says Kummer.

The WGBH news analyst weighed in on the myriad of factors threatening journalism both in the U.S. and around the world.

Steves is stuck at home for now, but is keeping his company going so they can jump right back in when pandemic passes.

The charming new Netflix show is a comforting during the pandemic, Thompson says.

Massachusetts has flattened the curve, but has only seen a plateau of COVID-19 cases, not yet a decline.

Listen to the full episode of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, May 2, 2018. Featuring: actor David Duchovny, WGBH arts editor Jared Bowen, homeland security expert Juliette Kayyem, author Eileen McNamara, tech writer Andy Ihnatko.

Listen to the full episode of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, May 1. (Happy May Day!) Featuring: sports reporter Trenni Kusnierick, ACLU Massachusetts director Carol Rose and ACLU lawyer Laura Rotolo, food writer and editor Corby Kummer, CNN host John King, and historian Nancy Koehn.

The full episode of Boston Public Radio from Monday, April 30, 2018. Featuring: a political roundtable with former Social Security Commissioner Mike Astrue and Suffolk University's John Nucci, Charles Sennott of The GroundTruth Project, television expert Bob Thompson, Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett Price, and medical ethicist Arthur Caplan.

This is the full episode of Boston Public Radio from Friday, April 27, 2018. Featuring: poet Kevin Young, "Beat the Press" host Emily Rooney, Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung, Harvard social psychologist Mike Norton, and a bird-themed news quiz featuring Mass Audubon.

The full episode of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, April 26, 2018. Featuring: NBC host Chuck Todd, Edgar B. Herwick III of WGBH's Curiosity Desk, author Robert Kuttner, Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn, and Boston Globe columnist and noted local curmudgeon Alex Beam.