US Role in the Mideast; Sustainable Delivery; US Natural Gas Exports; Accidentally Permissive Parenting

Coming up on today's show:

• Three U.S. service members were killed in Jordan this week, and now some Republicans are proposing that the United States should attack Iran. 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), explains why we even have troops in Jordan and other places in the Middle East at all, and how this is all related to the Israel-Hamas war.
  
  
• John Surico, a regular contributor to Bloomberg CityLab and adjunct professor at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, talks about Mayor Adams's proposed Department of Sustainable Delivery, part of his State of the City address.
  
  
• Robinson Meyer, founding executive editor of Heatmap, a new climate-focused media company, breaks down the Biden administration's recent announcement to pause a decision on whether to approve what would be the largest natural gas export terminal in the United States.
  
  
• Elizabeth Passarella, magazine writer and the author of the essay collections It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway and Good Apple (Thomas Nelson, 2023), discusses the phenomenon of excessively permissive parenting and its connection to gentle parenting, while listeners share how they're balancing discipline with the need to teach their children boundaries and how to work through their feelings.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.