A New Strategy in Afghanistan; The Post-Charlottesville Conversation; What is the "Alt-Left"?; How Pop Music Influences Americans' Ideas

Coming up on today's show:

• Paul McLeary, senior reporter for Foreign Policy covering national security, and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, staff writer for The Washington Post and a former Marine infantryman, discuss President Trump’s proposed policy for Afghanistan.
  
• The white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, the violence in the area and the president's reaction to it kicked off a national conversation around Confederate statues and, more broadly, race in America. So listeners, is the country better or worse for the traumatic events of Charlottesville and their aftermath?
• Mark Bray, one of the organizers of Occupy Wall Street; a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe; lecturer at Dartmouth College and the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, talks about Antifa, a group of anti-fascist protesters willing to use violence in the face of neo-nazi aggression, and what President Trump means when he refers to the "alt-left."
• Ann Powers, NPR Music critic and correspondent and the author of Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music, discusses pop music's influence on Americans' ideas.