Confronting Allegations of Racism on Airbnb, Visiting North Korea as a Tourist

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 13, 2016

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Investigative journalist Robert Kolker reveals how new wave of police interrogation is using unlikely methods. Writer and photographer Wendy Simmons details her bizarre 10-day visit to North Korea. How entrepreneurs are taking the bias out of booking a room on Airbnb. Jonathan Weisman and Matt Katz on the racial politics of the Trump campaign and the anti-Semitic abuse journalists experience on Twitter.

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