Radio Dispatch

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More on the DOJ’s seizing of two months of AP phone records, a new study says children are the poorest group in the United States, and listener mail.

The ACLU’s Kade Crockford on what the Boston bombing tells us about militarized police, and the broader state of surveillance in the United States. Also, the DOJ seizes two months of the Associated Press’ phone records, and listener mail.

Maurice Pianko of Intern Justice joins us to discuss the effects that free labor has throughout the economy. Also, the intersection of the drone program and stop and frisk, and force feeding at Guantanamo and reproductive rights.

The Wall Street Journal’s Jess Bravin joins us to discuss his new book The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay. Also, connecting the dots between exceptional violence and normalized violence.

On today’s show, final thoughts on the latest comedy controversy, and catching up on tons of listener mail.

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Another controversy about jokes about violence against women engulfs the comedy community. We spend the hour on what happened, and why pushing back against cultural misogyny is important.

Striving for sisterhood while encouraging and embracing criticism, and a flawed theory of how people become terrorists refuses to die.

Obama’s awful policy on Plan B, Bloomberg and Kelly on stop and frisk, and listener mail, including an update on Lavonte Douglas.

Porn Star Stoya joins us to discuss street harassment and the politics of porn. Also, how zero tolerance criminalizes the youth, and some thoughts on lethal autonomous robots.

We spend the hour on gender, whether it is innate, constructed, both, or neither. We may also get to some other listener mail too.