Below you will find the latest upcoming program updates for the week ahead. PLEASE NOTE: All details are subject to change. Additional details will be shared via ContentDepot as they become available.
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News
Marketplace
Marketplace (PM)
- Kai talks to President Biden’s National Economic Director Lael Brainard.
- Kai talks to FTC Chair Lina Khan.
- Kai talks to Gretchen Morgenson about her latest book, “These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America.”
Marketplace Tech
- April 24: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, about a recent study on what too much data is doing to people and how it impacts their decision making.
- April 25: Meghan speaks with Christina McCallister, Forrester, about the state of automating customer service.
- April 26: Meghan speaks with Silver Keskküla about his website “Have I been encoded,” which tracks what LLM-AI chatbots and similar tools are saying about individuals in their responses.
On Point
- April 24: UC Berkeley Economics Professor Emeritus, Pranab Bardhan, says the world is becoming disenchanted with the concept of democracy, and that liberal leaders refuse to take seriously one of the reasons why that’s happening — economic and cultural insecurity. In a follow up to On Point’s series, The Power of Populism, Meghna speaks with Prof. Bardhan about his observations and what those seeking to uphold liberal democracies should be doing about it.
- April 25: When Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old low-ranking airman from the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested and then charged with a massive leak of classified military documents, it raised questions as to why someone whose job was IT maintenance would have sufficient security clearance to access confidential information about the war in Ukraine and foreign leaders, that he could easily then go on to share with his teenage gaming buddies. We ask if the leak shows that the Pentagon is giving too many people cyber security access, and whether this shows a lack of preparedness for the realities of the next cyber war.
- April 27: 89 year-old California Senator, Dianne Feinstein is facing calls to resign amidst a lengthy absence from congress due to health issues. More than 73 percent of Americans now believe there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials. From the unelected Canadian senate to state judiciaries, age caps for civil servants exist both abroad and in the U.S. What can we draw from them?
Arts and Culture
The Splendid Table
April 28 – Repeat Episode
- This week, we’re looking at some of the world’s “Special Sauces.” René Redzepi of Copenhagen’s Noma joins us to talk about the delicious ancient sauce, garum. Diep Tran, the co-author of The Red Boat Fish Sauce Cookbook, brings us ideas for using that liquid gold in everyday recipes.
Performance Today
- Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Delyana Lazarova
- Maurice Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro, performed by Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival Musicians in Portland, Oregon
- A performance of Florence Price’s Five Folksongs in Counterpoint from the Geneva Festival
- Leos Janacek’s Violin Sonata performed by Yeri Roh and Hyeyeon Park from Music@Menlo
- Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto performed by Andrew Joyce and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gemma New
APM special of the week
May Mental Health Minutes
Air Window: May 1 – May 31, 2023
Observe May Mental Health Month with 7-days of Mental Health Minutes from Call to Mind. More than just health facts, we bring you 1-minute modules of mental health learnings, information and insight to foster new conversations about mental health.