Monday Morning Politics; Is it Safe to Bike in NYC?; History of Busing; You'll Never Get Away from Your Social Media Past

President Donald Trump, standing with first lady Melania Trump and others, waves to the crowd following his speech at an Independence Day celebration in front of the Lincoln Memorial in DC, 2019.

Coming up on today's show:

  • Philip Bump, The Washington Post national correspondent, discusses the latest political headlines.
  • After three cyclists died in traffic accidents in the space of a week, Marco Conner, interim co-executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a non-profit which works to decrease automobile use, argues cyclists deserve more protection from the city and the NYPD.
  • After the exchange between Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris on the debate stage, Matthew Delmont, professor of history at Dartmouth College and the author of Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (University of California Press, 2016), explains the policy and its impact on school desegregation.
  • Kate Eichhorn, associate professor of Culture and Media at The New School and the author of The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media (Harvard University Press, 2019), argues the danger to children and teens from social media might not be what they see while young, but the inability to distance themselves as adults from their younger thoughts and actions.