Mayor Adams urged all New Yorkers to reserve judgement about his Blueprint to End Gun Violence until they read the actual plan. So let's read it and talk about it together on the show. Here are some discussion questions to get you started.

• This fall, the Supreme Court will hear arguments to strike down affirmative action. Paul Butler, professor at Georgetown Law, the author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men (The New Press, 2017) and a self-proclaimed beneficiary of affirmative action, joins to make his case on why it should be upheld and why others who have benefitted from the law should rebut the critique that it stigmatizes Black students.
  
  
• As part of his Blueprint to End Gun Violence, Mayor Adams wants to expand the use surveillance technologies, like facial recognition software, to track down potential suspects. Albert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), practitioner-in-residence at N.Y.U Law School’s Information Law Institute, a fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, and at Ashoka.org, talks about what the mayor has said, and the known pitfalls and controversies around such tech.
  
  
• Suzanne Nossel, PEN America chief executive officer, discusses the renewed efforts to ban books about 'divisive concepts' from schools and libraries.
  
  
• The demand for electric vehicles has been rising and is higher than ever. Listeners who have recently purchased an electric vehicle call in to share why they made their decisions and what, if any, obstacles they encountered trying to purchase the in-demand cars.

 

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