National Politics; 30 Issues: Testing; CT Sen. Murphy; Modern Love; MacArthur 'Genius' Jacqueline Woodson

Coming up on today's show: 

• Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent, previews Thursday night's presidential debate and reports on more national political news.
• Ashish Jha, M.D., physician, health policy researcher and dean of the Brown University School of Health, talks about the current system of COVID-19 testing and how a future Trump or Biden presidency might impact how testing works and is deployed in the United States.
• U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), member of the Foreign Relations committee and author of the forthcoming The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy (Random House, 2020), talks about the latest federal response to the public health and economic crisis, plus election security and the status of the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination.
• Daniel Jones and Miya Lee, editors of "Modern Love" at the New York Times and co-hosts of the "Modern Love" podcast, talk about the new season of the podcast and share stories of love in a pandemic.
• All this week, meet one of the local 2020 MacArthur geniuses. Today: Brooklyn's Jacqueline Woodson, author of the National Book Award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2014) and more,  who has received the honor for "redefining children’s and young adult literature to encompass more complex issues and reflect the lives of Black children, teenagers, and families."

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.