- The House passed its sweeping rewrite of the tax code today, so we opened up the lines and asked you if you’re concerned about what this tax plan means. Is this a priority for you? Is this what you’ve been waiting for?
- Rep. Michael Capuano joined us for another look behind the curtain, his running list of government actions that you probably didn’t know about.
- In the the most recent mass shootings in Southerland Springs Texas and Northern California, both of the gunmen had a history of domestic violence. Weeks before their rampages, Democratic lawmakers proposed legislation to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers. Former Suffolk Country Sheriff and secretary of public safety Andrea Cabral joined us to discuss.
- Wednesday, Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi sold at auction for $450 million — the most that anyone has ever paid at auction for a creative work of genius. But why spend millions when, for a mere $30, you can take in da Vinci’s genius by way of Walter Isaacson’s latest biography? It’s a deeply researched exploration of da Vinci’s life, entitled “Leonardo da Vinci.”
- This week when Trump announced his nominee to run Health and Human Services, he tweeted, “Alex Azar will be a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices!” That’s the same Alex Azar who ran pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, where he actually increased the cost of drugs. Medical ethicist Art Caplan joined us to discuss this and other medical headlines.
- We discussed it with Caplan, then we asked you: where do you stand on the Q-Tip? We all buy them, but do any of us know how to use them? On the box it comes with this warning: "Do not insert inside the ear canal." But according to Emergency Room records and personal anecdotes, just about everybody does inset the Q-tip into their ear canal. We opened the lines and asked you.
- Then, could the GOP tax plan affect beer and wine? Jonathan Alsop joined us for that, a Thanksgiving wine and food primer and more.
