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Erik Edstrom, who served in Afghanistan, thinks the government has failed both its military and Afghan citizens.

At the end of October, the state House of Representatives passed a $3.65 billion spending package aimed at COVID-19 recovery. The package is currently up…

Trenni Kusnierek believes part of the blame for harassment in school sports falls on the adults in the room.

Although Janey said she was open to a job in the Wu administration, her immediate plans were to “rest and reflect and write.”

Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung joined Boston Public Radio to discuss the election

Former Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville says Democrats need to change how they discuss the topic.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley on the Democrats' strategy on the Epstein files, gerrymandering, and more.National security expert Juliette Kayyem on discuss Trump's push to eliminate mail-in voting, and the coastal threats from Hurricane Erin.Former transit secretary Jim Aloisi joins with former Transportation4Mass director Chris Dempsey for a transit panel.Max Rome of Charles River Watershed Association and Chris Mancini of Save the Harbor/Save the Bay join to talk about urban beaches, water quality and environmental justice.

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NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell guest hosts with Margery while Jim is still out on vacation.Businesses are seeing workforce disruptions with ICE disruptions. We talk to Amherst College’s Ilan Stavans about that, plus, about a new study on how language barriers affect your internet experience.It's still summer movie season. Boston Globe film critic Odie Henderson is back with his unabashed reviews of new summer flicks, including the Freaky Friday sequel and some Disney reboots. For more than 40 years, former labor secretary Robert Reich has been sounding the alarm on rising inequality in America, and how to fix it. He’s out with a new memoir “Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America."It's All Rev’d Up with the Revs Emmett G. Price III and Irene Monroe. They talk about technology and faith: including the rise of Silicon Valley techno-religion, and an AI chatbot for religious questions.

For this week's media analysis segment “Press Play," BU Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies Joan Donovan discusses how mainstream media headlines fail to capture the real story, and how the White House is losing control over Epstein conspiracy theories.Then, it's Live Music Friday with Boston-based rapper and music coach RedShaydez, who is leading a new artist development program called Music Jumpstart. She joins alongside rapper and producer JoiBeatz.Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner on the rule of law under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the latest out of the supreme court, and what’s up with Alan Dershowitz on Martha’s Vineyard.We talk with Rhode Island filmmaker Stephen Smith, an arctic expedition leader, and Brown University polar oceanographer Chris Horvat about their documentary “Beneath the Polar Sun,” ahead of its airing on GBH 44.

Chuck Todd on latest political headlinesAndrea Cabral weighs in on Jim Acosta “interviewing” an AI avatar of a Parkland shooting survivorPaul Reville on private school vouchers, high absenteeism in Mass. classrooms, the bill on banning cell phones in classrooms, and moreDr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel on the impacts of cuts to Medicaid, ICE getting a hold of Medicaid data, and some of his recent columns for the Atlantic and New York Times