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Guns + Extremism; NYC Free Lunch Programs; Labor in the U.S.; Social Media and Extremism

Guns + Extremism; NYC Free Lunch Programs; Labor in the U.S.; Social Media and Extremism
Coming up on today’s show:

Jamil Jivani, lawyer, community activist, co-founder with author J.D. Vance of Our Ohio Renewal and the author of Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It (All Points Books, 2019), shares his knowledge of the attraction of violent extremism for some young men and how to counter it, and Kyleanne Hunter, vice president for programs at the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, talks about possible gun control legislation Congress could take up in response to the shootings.
Andrea Strong, journalist and founder of the NYC Healthy School Food Alliance, an advocacy group pushing for holistic school food reform, joins us for a conversation about how New York City kids can access free meals the city has to offer.
Steven Greenhouse, former New York Times labor and workplace reporter and author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Knopf, 2019), talks about his latest book.
Andrew Marantz, editorial staffer at The New Yorker and the author of the forthcoming Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Viking, 2019), talks about the role social media is playing in recent white nationalist shootings.

 

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