2020 Catch-Up; Will New York Ever Have Safe Injection Sites?; How to Fix the Republic; Late Success; Hercules

Coming up on today's show:

• Brittany Shepherd, Yahoo News national politics reporter, talks about the latest developments among those running for president.
• One New Yorker dies every six hours from a drug overdose. Since Democrats took control of the state legislature, local leaders are trying to figure out how to approach the problem differently. New York State Senator representing the 33rd Senate District (covering the Bronx), Gustavo Rivera talks about a new joint senate task force on overdose prevention, which aims to be less punitive and examine life saving tools like "safe injection sites," and medically assistant treatment for incarcerated individuals.
• Burt Neuborne, constitutional scholar and leading civil liberties lawyer, professor at NYU School of Law and the author of When at Times the Mob Is Swayed: A Citizen’s Guide to Defending Our Republic (The New Press, 2019), draws on his experience at the ACLU and Brennan Center to offer proposals for reforms that wouldn't require amending the Constitution, but argues that ultimately, it's up to the voters to defend American democracy.
• Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes and the author of Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement (Currency, 2019), offers advice and shares his own story of "late blooming." And listeners call in to talk about the pressure for early achievement and when things finally clicked for them.
• Actor Jelani Alladin (Hercules) talks about the free Public Works Delacorte Theater production of the musical "Hercules" that draws on professional performers plus 200 community members to tell the story of finding heroes.