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The congresswoman is out with a "radical" decarceration initiative.

When Oscar nominations for the 2020 Academy Awards were announced, many took grievance with the fact that the nominees in major categories were predominantly white and male.

The Globe business columnist continued to press for accountability in the wake of the Jeffery Epstein donation scandal.

Cabral said she understands why Harvard Law grads might not be interested in serving Trump-appointed judges.

On Thursday, state treasurer Deb Goldberg joined Boston Public Radio for the first edition of Ask the Treasurer

Reville believes the Mayor and school district had no inclination to pass along student incident reports to

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, February 13th, 2019. We spoke with Sen. Ed Markey about the Green New Deal. Carolyn Beeler, the environment reporter for The World, called us from Antarctica, where she’s embedded with the research vessel the Nathaniel B. Palmer, which is on expedition to Thwaites Glacier. We spoke with economist Jonathan Gruber about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax on people with assets in excess of $50 million. National security expert Juliette Kayyem discussed the controversy between billionaire Jeff Bezos and The National Enquirer. We discussed a new bill in Oregon that could eliminate vaccine exemptions for parents after an outbreak of measles in the state. We asked Sue O’Connell, host of NECN’s “The Takeaway,” whether America will elect a bachelor, like Sen. Cory Booker, to the White House. In the aftermath of the Westminster Dog Show, we asked our listeners how they felt about the practice of “clipping” dogs' nails, tails and ears, which is prevalent in dog competitions. Boston Globe columnist Meredith Goldstein joined us to discuss the second season of her podcast “Love Letters.”

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, February 12th, 2018. The MBTA is considering fare hikes, which by their own projections would result in ridership declines, which could force more people to rely on cars or rideshare programs. We kicked off the show by opening the lines and asking our listeners: What’s the solution here? And where is the urgency? Bob Costas spoke out about the dangers of the NFL. Did it cost him his job? Trenni Kusnierek joined us for that and more. Kusnierek is an anchor and reporter for NBC sports Boston and a BPR contributor. Five years after sending text messages to her suicidal boyfriend encouraging him to kill himself, Michelle Carter is going to jail. ACLU Massachusetts Executive Director Carol Rose joined us to discuss the potential implications of this case on free speech. A collaboration between FRONTLINE and The Wall Street Journal investigates how a pediatrician got away with preying on his patients for years. We spoke with reporter Christopher Weaver about this story, detailed in his film, “Predator on the Reservation,” which premieres tonight on PBS. It’s February, and it’s cold and snowing. Instead of going on a winter getaway, Boston Globe travel writer Christopher Muther suggests not getting away from it at all. His travel tip: go where it’s even colder, head for Quebec city. He joins us to defend this, and to offer some counter programming by way of the unsung beaches of Florida… and more. He’s also a columnist for The Boston Globe and a BPR contributor. John King, CNN’s Chief National Correspondent, joins us to go over the latest politics headlines. King is the anchor of Inside Politics, which you can catch weekdays at noon and Sunday mornings at 8 a.m. A team of researchers are opening up an academy dedicated to longevity. We opened the lines to ask our listeners — why? Who among us wants to surpass our life expectancy?

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Monday, February 11th, 2019. We went over the latest headlines with our political roundtable, featuring Jennifer Braceras and Michael Curry. Braceras is a political columnist, senior fellow with the Independent Women’s Forum, and a former Commissioner of the United States Commission on Civil Rights; Curry is Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Mass League of Community Health Centers and a member of the National NAACP Board of Directors. Television expert Bob Thompson shared his picks for the best and worst TV of the week. Thompson is founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse. Charles Sennott, founder of The GroundTruth Project and a WGBH News analyst, explained the deepening crisis in Venezuela. In 2020 coverage so far, we've read about how Kirsten Gillibrand eats chicken and Elizabeth Warren drinks beer. We opened up the lines and asked you: Are you fed up with the superficial nature of the coverage and of our national discourse? On the latest installment of "All Revved Up," Reverend Irene Monroe and Reverend Emmett Price looked at Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's refusal to resign from office after a racist photo of him surfaced. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail, as well as a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at Boston University's School of Theology. Price is a professor of Worship, Church & Culture and Founding Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Got home improvement questions? The folks from "This Old House" have answers! Kevin O’Connor, host of "This Old House" and "Ask This Old House" and Charlie Silva, a general contractor for "This Old House," took your calls.

On today's episode of Boston Public Radio: Democrats have unveiled an ambitious new proposal for fighting climate change, the "Green New Deal." Joining us on the line to explain the proposal was Congressman Bill Keating of the 9th district of Massachusetts. Keating is on the House Foreign Affairs Committees, where he serves as chairman of the Europe, Eurasia, Energy, and the Environment Subcommittee. We opened up the lines and asked you: Do you think the Green New Deal could work? Do you support it? Emily Rooney, host of "Beat the Press," shared her famous list of observations and frustrations. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh took our questions and yours on "Ask the Mayor." Have the latest revelations about Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry doomed her shot at beating Trump? We asked Shirley Leung, interim editorial page editor for the Boston Globe. Callie Crossley, host of "Under the Radar with Callie Crossley," looked at the ways former First Lady Michelle Obama reinvented the book tour while promoting her new memoir, "Becoming." Husband-and-wife duo Joanne Chang and Christopher Myers of Myers + Chang and Flour Bakery faced off on a sweet News Quiz.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, February 7th, 2019