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So leaders are treating the coronavirus pandemic like a war. Should we react with open warfare or surgical strikes?

To President Trump’s statements downplaying the need for more ventilators, the physician said "I kind of want to scream."

Like restaurants and movie theaters, most artistic venues have closed their doors and canceled performances.

A 3D-printer made hundreds of copies of a ventilator piece in high demand.

Food supply anxiety is creating a demand for personal gardens.

As the novel coronavirus responsible for the outbreak of COVID-19 continues to spread, there is a growing chorus of people calling for the release of prisoners who either no longer pose a threat to society or committed nonviolent offenses and are vulnerable to fatally contracting the disease

BPR Full Show 4/3: The Horror Of The Whistle

Today:We talk with lawyer, former Suffolk County Sheriff, Andrea Cabral about the administration’s attack on law firms … Plus, the unprecedented detention of a defendant mid-trial.And, former education secretary Paul Reville discusses the Trump administration clawing back $106 million in unspent COVID funds to Mass. schools.

Today:Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discusses Trump's tariff plan; and the CEO response to this presidential administration.And, naturalist and author Sy Montgomery brings us the latest headlines from the non-human world: Urban spiders weaving noise cancellation into their webs, and octopuses escaping sharks by hitching a ride on their heads.

NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses the launch of the first US professional women's 15s rugby league and a controversy surrounding influencers and hot yoga. Harvard security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses the justice department seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione and the results of Tuesday's supreme court election in Wisconsin.Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale School of Management discusses Trump's "liberation day" tariffs and the response (or lack-thereof) by CEOs to the Trump administration.Naturalist Sy Montgomery explains how urban spiders build soundproofing into their webs and why an octopus hitched a ride on a shark.

Today:Rufus Gifford, former ambassador to Denmark under Barack Obama -- who more recently worked on the Biden/Harris and Harris/Walz campaigns -- discusses Donald Trump's rhetoric about Greenland.Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, discusses their organization joining onto the legal team in defense of Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk.