Letters and Politics

The Inadequacy of Biden’s Covid Response & The History of Policing Powers

Part I. Biden’s Coronavirus Response 

Guest: Greg Gonsalves is Public Health correspondent for The Nation, and an epidemiologist at Yale School of Public Health.  His latest article in the Nation is Sure, Biden’s Better on Covid Than Trump. That’s Not Good Enough. 

Part II. The History of Policing Powers

Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.  He is the author of many books including, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution, The Case Against the Supreme Court, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century, and his latest, Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights.