Life-or-death Prescription Costs, Capitalism Redux, Please Explain: Mammals

Midday on WNYC | Mar 15, 2018

Katie Thomas of The New York Times and Charles Ornstein of ProPublica tell the stories of Americans trying to pay for life-saving prescription drugs. Film director and producer Gillian Armstrong talks about the Australian film industry. Bruce Norris, Michael Greif and Chukwudi Iwuji discuss their play on the injustice of American slavery, The Low Road. Liam Drew explains the special and strange traits that unite all mammals.

This episode is guest hosted by Jonathan Capehart.

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