How do we break the country’s love affair with incarceration? Prison reform is a growing interest for both Democrats and Republicans now – but how much common ground is there? Is there a bridge between Republicans wanting to spend less money and Democrats wanting better care and less incarceration? Today Carousel Bayrd talks with Lauren-Brooke Eisen from the Brennan Center on bipartisanship in prison reform.
What does it take to create a successful startup?
What does it take to create a successful startup? Today Yuri Rashkin talks with founders and members of some of Madison’s most successful startups: Peter Qian of SmartUQ, Wes Schroll of Fetch Rewards, and George McLaughlin of Redox are in the studio as they discuss the road to Silicon Valley.
Cecil the Lion and the Sixth Extinction
Why is illegal poaching of protected animals still so common? What is the human impact on the sixth extinction, and is there anything we can do about it? In wake of the recent Cecil the Lion killing, today host Esty Dinur talks with UW professor Dr. Adrian Treves, psychologist Dr. Frieda Birnbaum, and researcher Dr. Gerardo Ceballos on this and the sixth extinction.
Anthropologist David Price
How have anthropologists and other social scientists been used by the Pentagon and the CIA on the ground in places like Afghanistan as part of broader “counter-insurgency” programs? What are contracted civilians, embedded academics doing in the field as part of “human terrain teams?” Host Allen Ruff talks with anthropologist David Price to explore this.
Reproductive rights and Wisconsin’s Anti-Abortion Law
What challenges face the pro-choice movement now that Scott Walker signed the anti-abortion bill? The law now bans all abortions after 20 weeks. Today host Karma Chavez talks with Wendi Kent, a local reproductive rights activist on this, the attacks on Planned Parenthood, and reproductive rights.
Rethinking Classroom Misbehavior
Does it make sense to impose the harshest treatments on the most challenging kids? Are we treating chronically misbehaving children as though they don’t want to behave, when in many cases they simply can’t? These are some of the questions Katherine Reynolds Lewis asks in her latest profile of psychologist Ross Greene. On Tuesday, August 4th, host Carousel Bayrd talked with Lewis on this and Greene’s approach to addressing misbehavior in children.
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