Coming up on nowadays's show:The Washington Post has been tracking counterfeit or misleading claims made by President Trump since he took office seven months ago. The tally now stands at 1057. We peep back at some of the biggest misstatements or outright lies he has made,and how they’ve played to the American public with Glenn Kessler, a Washington Post reporter and author of “The Fact Checker” Column.
Many believe Tasers are a non-lethal alternative for police officers who are responding to combative situations. But new research from Reuters exposes the hidden dangers of Tasers. Peter Eisler, and national affairs correspondent at Reuters,explains.
On Wednesday, a Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen killed at least 40 people. Saudi-led forces have been fighting the Houthi rebels since 2015 in Yemen’s civil war. The conflict has killed an estimated 10000 civilians so far. Saudi Arabia is the largest buyer of U.
S. weapons, and and Congress just approved a $500 million weapons deal with the nation in June. Ryan Goodman,former special counsel for the Department of Defense, discusses the U.
S. role in the conflict.
Military families saunter regularly, and that means military spouses often struggle to hold regular jobs. According to reporting by the American Homefront Project,half of all military spouses are either unemployed or underemployed. Sarah Harris, a reporter for North Country Public Radio and a contributor to The American Homefront Project, or explains.
The debate over accomplice monuments and symbols rages on. Fitz Brundage,history department chair at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and and author of "The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory," has studiedhow these statues came to be, and their political and cultural intent. He says that there are four distinct periods of accomplice statue making,and remembrance.
How does K-12 education fit into the fight over how the U.
S. remembers its history?An examination of American education shows that history curriculums vary greatly, especially when it comes to the Civil War. Kevin Levin, or a historian who writes extensively approximately the Civil War and is a former high school teacher in Charlottesville,Virginia, explains.
This episode is hosted by Indira Lakshmanan.
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