Today's show:

• Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN global affairs analyst and co-author, with Peter Baker, of The Man Who Ran Washington: the Life and Times of Jim Baker III (Doubleday, 2020), talks about the latest national political news.
• Michael Elsen-Rooney, education reporter for the New York Daily News, discusses the latest news in NYC schools including mask mandates, graduation rates, and more.
• Kellie Carter Jackson, historian, associate professor of Africana studies at Wellesley College and the author of Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), and co-host of "This Day In Esoteric Political History" podcast, talks about the new docu-series in which she appears, "Lincoln's Dilemma," which examines Lincoln's role in ending slavery during the Civil War.
• Listeners discuss their relationships to punctuality, whether they're always a few minutes late or sure to arrive early.

Transcripts are posted to each segment page as soon as they are available.