On today's show:
- In a speech this week, President Biden announced the next steps of his administration's so-called Cancer Moonshot initiative, which aims to prevent deaths from the disease. Sarah Owermohle, Washington correspondent at STAT News, and Barrett Rollins, MD, PhD, chief scientific officer emeritus at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and author of the forthcoming book In Sickness: A Memoir (Post Hill Press, November 2022), discuss the details of the president's initiative.
- The Adams administration is ordering city agencies to significantly cut their budgets over the next couple years. Elizabeth Kim, reporter who covers mayoral power for the People and Power team at Gothamist and WNYC, reports on how agencies might do this, and how might affect city services.
- Having written for the New York Times Magazine about the exoneration of a prisoner who wrote her a letter about his case, staff writer Emily Bazelon, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), received many more letters from others wishing to have their cases reexamined. She talks about the launch of the "Prison Letters Project" to read them all and make the information available, as well as a new newsletter.
- Listeners call in to talk about whether they've engaged in "quiet quitting" at their job -- where they put in the minimum amount of effort to get by -- and how it's going over in their lives and with their employers.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
