Fixing Wasteful Bureaucracy, Kidnapping Patty Hearst, Ending Capital Punishment

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 30, 2016

Philip K. Howard, author, attorney and campaign co-chair of Chair of Common Good on a national bipartisan campaign to fix broken government called "Who's in Charge Around Here?" Jeffrey Toobin details the strange events surrounding heiress Patty Hearst's kidnapping in 1974. Director/Choreographer Lee Sunday Evans, actress Jennifer Lim and set designer Arnulfo Maldonado on the New York premiere of award-winning playwright Christopher Chen’s “Caught." Emily Bazelon investigated the small fraction of counties that still impose death sentences in the United States. 

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