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March 2018
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New research out of McGill University says smartphones are not making us antisocial — they’re actually proof that we are hypersocial. Samuel Veissiere is an assistant professor in the Culture, Mind, and Brain Program at McGill University and he helped conduct this research.
March 19, 2018
Does segregation lead to more segregation? And, how do the choices we all make, both consciously and subconsciously, contribute to that?
March 19, 2018
The Kerner Commision's report on race in America concluded that inner-city violence was being driven by poverty and institutional racism. Alice George, historian and contributor to Smithsonian.com, has written about the Kerner Commission 50 years after its release. She joins The Show's Steve Goldstein to talk about it.
March 19, 2018
President Trump toured prototypes of the border wall last week in San Diego, as he continued to emphasize how it would reduce crime and drug smuggling. And even while he has professed some support for so-called Dreamers, he has also talked about certain immigrants being “burdens on schools.”
March 19, 2018
Vladimir Putin was re-elected in Russia this weekend, which was not much of a surprise. His country faces a deadline in the U.K. this week, related to several diplomats there; here for our weekly look at the big international stories in the coming days is the BBC’s Camilla Mills.
March 19, 2018
Records from the sexual misconduct investigation involving former Rep. Don Shooter were released by the Arizona House of Representatives on Friday.
March 19, 2018
A collaborative project between the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office in Tucson and the New York Academy of Art is working to give names to the nameless.
March 19, 2018
Oklahoma is moving to a new method of carrying out executions. Officials say they’ll use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates.
March 19, 2018
Unless a buyer can be found, the Navajo Generating Station in Page, Arizona is going to shut down at the end of 2019.
March 19, 2018
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is expected this week to unveil a proposal dealing with gun safety and school safety.
March 19, 2018
