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Coming up Thursday on BPR:
Political analyst Chuck Todd
Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung
Former public safety secretary Andrea Cabral
Recent segments
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Art Caplan: Anti-Vaccination Movement Is Threatening Our Herd Immunity
Medical ethicist Art Caplan said religious exemptions for vaccinations have to go. -
Juliette Kayyem: The Continuation Of Impeachment Hearings Is Necessary
Whether or not they lead to impeachment itself, the testimonies publicly call out offenders, says Kayyem. -
Campbell Doubles Down On Call For Boston To Create Inspector General
On Tuesday, Boston City Council President Andrea Campbell doubled down on her push for the city to create an office for an inspector general. -
John King: Kamala Harris Struggled To Find An Identity On Campaign Trail
According to John King, CNN’s chief national political correspondent, despite a strong opening, she struggled to craft a unifying narrative for her campaign. -
Bill McKibben: California To Ban Certain Cars Amidst Feud With Trump Administration
California is trying to have stricter car emission standards than the federal government has set. -
Mass. ACLU: State Police Rolled Out Robot Dogs Without First Letting The Public Know
Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, said the ACLU found out about it from a social media post, and wants more information.
Listen to previous shows
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BPR Full Show 4/02: Let Me Be Your Avocado
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. -
Best Of BPR 4/01: Former Denmark Ambassador On Trump's Greenland Land Grab & The ACLU Against Tyranny
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. -
BPR Full Show 4/01: Rumeysa Ozturk Case
ACLUM executive director Carol Rose discusses the local ACLU chapter joining on to legal filings in support of Rümeysa ÖztürkCorby Kummer on Trump's immigration impacts on farm workers and unions.Rufus Gifford, former Ambassador to Denmark parses through the Trump administration's rhetoric around Greenland.CNN's John King on national political headlines & Wisconsin election. -
BPR Full Show 3/27: Detained Tufts Student
Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung recaps Mayor Wu's appearance on The Daily Show, Canadians upset over U.S. annexation talk and the latest on the White Stadium development. Former secretary of public safety Andrea Cabral discusses Cambridge City Counselor Paul Toner's refusal to resign over the brothel scandal, and law firms refusing to represent Trump opponents. Andrew Natsios used to chair the Mass GOP and served as USAID administrator under George W. Bush. He reacts to the recent dismantling of the aid agency. Vulture podcast critic Nick Quah shares some of his picks for the best podcasts of the year so far, including GBH News' own "Scratch & Win." -
Best Of BPR 3/31: Inside The Notorious Mega Prison Trump Sent More Than 200 Migrants With Photojournalist Philip Holsinger
Photojournalist Philip Holsinger was on the tarmac documenting the arrival of Venezuelan migrants detained here in the U.S. and sent abroad to El Salvador, where they were immediately transferred to the country’s maximum-security gang prison. He joins to discuss what he saw.