• Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, recaps the debate she moderated for the Democratic candidates in New York's redrawn 12th Congressional district, which has pitted two longtime incumbents against each other in the Manhattan district.

• Kelly McEvers, creator and host of NPR's Embedded podcast, and Dan Girma, producer and host of NPR's Embedded podcast, talk about their reporting (with The Marshall Project) on the police department in Yonkers, and its attempts at reform.
• Dana DiFilippo, senior reporter at The New Jersey Monitor, talks about her reporting on how New Jersey has retained and used newborn blood samples in criminal investigations, raising privacy concerns. Plus, CJ Griffin, attorney at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden and director of the firm's Justice Gary S. Stein Public Interest Center, discusses a lawsuit filed by public defenders to find out how often blood from the mandatory screenings is used.
• A couple of weeks ago, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, declared the monarch butterfly to be an endangered species. Mark Garland, naturalist and former director of the Cape May Monarch Monitoring Project, explains about how monarch migrations have changed over the past few years, what their new designation means for conservation, and how listeners can help the species rebound with butterfly gardens.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.