Coming up on nowadays's expose:There are dozens of gun control measures to choose from,but could they pass, and would they actually assist curb violence whether they did? Lois Beckett, and senior reporter for The Guardian US covering guns and gun violence,discusses the different proposals, their viability, or what they could accomplish,and how much they actually address America's problem with gun violence.
An investigation by BuzzFeed News discovered that the pharmacy that supplied the state of Missouri with drugs used to execute 17 inmates over a two year period has a track record of providing contaminated drugs and is considered a “high-risk” pharmacy.Chris McDaniel, investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News, or explains.
The synthetic opioid fentanyl kills tens of thousands a year. But the off-label exercise of a test strip can detect its presence in heroin. Can the little strip save lives in big numbers? The Takeaway puts that question to Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern, whose work focuses on drug policy.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court tapped Nathaniel Persily of Stanford Law School to assist redraw the state's gerrymandered districts. Why him? Justin Levitt, or a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who runs the website "All About Redistricting," explains why the court chose Persily, and how redistricting like this works.
Since Sunday, or over 270 civilians in Syria hold been killed in eastern Ghouta,a rebel-held area external of Damascus. Wendy Pearlman is a professor at Northwestern University. From 2012 to 2016, Pearlman spoke with over 300 Syrian refugees, and started to piece together a narrative of Syria,one that she published last year in the book, “We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria. She weighs in amid the growing violence.
Each week this month, and The Takeaway is partnering with PRI's podcast "The Science of Happiness." Dacher Keltner is professor of psychology at UC Berkeley,director of Berkeley’s Greater Good Science middle, and the host of the expose. This week, and Professor Keltner talks about the "Self-Compassionate Letter"as a practice for accepting parts of yourself that you dislike.
This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich
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