Today on Boston Public Radio:
EJ Dionne discussed the death of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, and the status of Democratic negotiations over President Joe Biden’s spending bill. Dionne is a columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. His latest book is “Code Red: How Progressives And Moderates Can Unite To Save Our Country.”
Then, we asked listeners if they would go back to the office if promised one month of remote work, after Amazon announced a similar plan for its corporate employees.
Charlie Sennott talked about the United States’ role in political and economic chaos in Haiti, following the kidnapping of 17 U.S. and Canadian missionaries. He also emphasized the importance of journalism with the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to journalists Dmitri A. Muratov from Russia and Maria Ressa from the Philippines. Sennott is a GBH News analyst and the founder and CEO of The GroundTruth Project.
Renée Landers previewed the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term, including the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev death penalty case and debates over abortion. She also weighed in on term limits and whether or not she thinks Justice Stephen Breyer will retire before the end of Biden’s term. Landers is a professor of law and faculty director of the health and biomedical law concentration at Suffolk University’s School of Law.
Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III weighed in on Dave Chapelle’s Netflix special and Lizzo calling twerking sacred. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail and co-host of the All Rev’d Up podcast. Price is the founding pastor of Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston, the Inaugural Dean of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music and co-host of the All Rev’d Up podcast.
We ended the show by talking with listeners about how they respond to receiving care from private healthcare workers who remain unvaccinated.
