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Juul's new CEO used to be a tobacco industry executive.

Thirty-two prisons bought uninspected and degraded meat for their inmates, Corby Kummer says.

The law will go into effect in 2023, but a legal fight with the NCAA seems imminent, says Trenni Kusnierek.

WGBH News Reporter Craig LeMoult said Monday that legislators aren't equipped to respond to new data about ultrafine emissions particles.

One year after Jamal Khashoggi's death, Charlie Sennott said the US needs to send a message to Saudi Arabia that murdering journalists is unacceptable.

The Harvard University president's comment about the 13th Amendment indicates the problem of historical ignorance, the reverends said.

On today’s episode of Boston Public Radio: Our political roundtable with Jennifer Nassour and Steve Kerrigan discussed the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other top headlines. Nassour is former Chairwoman of the MassGOP and COO of ReflectUS, and Kerrigan is president and co-founder of the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund and former CEO of the DNC. Charles Sennott, founder of The GroundTruth Project, looked back on the Rwandan Genocide 25 years later. Legal analyst Michael Zeldin examined reported discrepancies between the Mueller report and Attorney General William Barr’s summary of it. Television expert Bob Thompson looked at the return of “Game of Thrones” for its final season, the end of “Broad City,” and shared his picks for the best and worst TV of the week. Reverend Irene Monroe and Reverend Emmett Price looked at the role left-leaning evangelical voters could play in the 2020 election for their regular segment, “All Revved Up.” We opened up the lines and asked you about the controversy over a Cambridge educator’s use of the n-word in a research project. Poet Richard Blanco led us in a master class on figurative language. Blanco is the nation’s fifth inaugural poet and author of the new book “How To Love A Country.”

Today on Boston Public Radio: Bob Kraft's high-profile arrest has kicked off a statewide conversation about sex trafficking, including a debate over legalizing prostitution. We opened up the lines and asked listeners for their take. Ryan Landry shared his thoughts on "Happy Place," a pop-up museum designed with social media in mind. Landry is a playwright, lyricist, actor, and founder of the Gold Dust Orphans theatrical company. Emily Rooney, host of "Beat the Press," regaled us with her famous list of observations and frustrations. Cannabis Control Commission Chairman Steven Hoffman went over the latest developments with the recreational marijuana industry. Another admissions scandal has surfaced — this time at Harvard — and it involves a suspect property investment and the university's fencing coach. Shirley Leung, The Boston Globe’s interim editorial page editor, weighed in. Callie Crossley, host of "Under the Radar with Callie Crossley," discussed the citizenship question on the 2020 census. Two certified KonMari consultants, Kerry Adams and Phoebe Cusack, brought the life-changing magic of tidying up to the Friday News Quiz.

On *Boston Public Radio *today: Chuck Todd, host of “Meet the Press,” discussed the House’s move to request President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Then we opened up the lines and asked you about Wynn Resorts. Now that the company admits it covered up sexual assault allegations against Steve Wynn, should their casino license be revoked? Former Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral discussed a new addiction treatment program being launched in some Massachusetts prisons. Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka outlined her support for a bill that would allow a “Gender X” option on state licenses and IDs. Cartoonist Roz Chast and humorist Patty Marx discussed their new book, “Why Don’t You Write My Euology Now So I Can Correct It?” and treated us to a performance of their ukulele duo, “Ukulear Explosion.” Former state secretary of education Paul Reville weighed in on an MCAS question that proved so controversial that state officials decided it shouldn’t be scored. Then we opened up the lines and asked you about a recent New York Times article highlighting the tedium and boredom of high school. Was this true for you? Was your high school boring? Was learning a chore? What teachers or extracurricular activities made the difference?

This week, Burger King announced that it will offer a vegetarian version of its most famous product, the Whopper, made primarily from soybeans. Corby Kummer, a senior editor at The Atlantic, an award-winning food writer and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition and Policy, weighed in on Boston Public Radio.

Listen to the full episode of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, April 3, 2019.