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- CNN’s John King joined Jim and Margery to talk about affirmative action before the Supreme Court, and Pres. Obama’s fervent defense of the embattled Affordable Care Act. King is the host of CNN’s Inside Politics.
- Charlie Baker — Republican candidate for Massachusetts governor — stopped by Studio Three to talk about a new initiative he’s pushing to combat domestic violence.
- Suzanne Mettler, a professor at Cornell University, discussed the high cost of higher ed, and why it hasn’t been politically expedient to make college more affordable. Are politicians standing in the way of a well-read, job-ready citizenry? Mettler is the author of Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream.
- In honor of Earth Day, Harvard professor Nancy Koehn talked about Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring, which is regarded as one of the first “ecofeminist” texts. Koehn argued that Carson’s lessons about environmentalism haven’t been fully absorbed by today’s “green” movement.
