Monday Morning Politics; Why Temporary License Plates are Everywhere Now; LED Light; Have We Taken the Fun Out of Kid's Reading?

• Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, consultant for Radiolab, and the author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (The New Press, 2022), offers analysis of recent political headlines, including the expulsion of two young Black lawmakers from the Tennessee House of Representatives to new reporting on previously undisclosed luxury gifts accepted by Justice Clarence Thomas.
• Temporary license plates seem to be on cars all over the city. Jesse Coburn, investigative reporter for Streetsblog, shares details of his reporting on the flourishing black market of these "ghost tags," as they're known, which help drivers evade paying tolls and help them get away with other more sinister crimes.
• Tom Scocca, New York Magazine contributor, former Slate politics editor and the editor of Indignity, a general-interest publication on Substack, goes deep into LED light technology and why providing artificial light is more complicated than flipping a switch.
• Katherine Marsh, journalist and author of books for middle-grade readers, including her latest, The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (Roaring Brook Press, 2023), argues that an unintended consequence of teaching kids critical reading skills is that they read less for fun.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.