US-China Relations; Pricing Environmental Health; Your Job and Your Identity; Air Travel Pet Peeves

On today's show:

• Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many books, including The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Simon & Schuster, 2020), shares his analysis of why it's a good thing that tensions between the U.S. and China are apparently thawing somewhat, plus the latest news on Russia's war in Ukraine.
• Paula DiPerna, special advisor for CDP, the non-profit global environmental impact disclosure platform, and the author of Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets (Wiley, 2023), argues that to avoid the "environmental default" of climate change we need to assign a monetary value for the health of the planet.
• Simone Stolzoff, journalist and consultant and the author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work (Portfolio, 2023), argues for reframing how Americans see work.
• An experienced flight attendant wrote in the New York Times that you should never take your socks off on the plane...and that you don't have to switch seats if you don't want to. So as the busy summer travel season has begun, listeners call in to share their rules for flying ...politely.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.