President Obama travels to Dallas today for an interfaith memorial service remembering the police officers killed here last week. KERA will air live coverage of the service, which also features former President Bush, starting at noon. And after the speech, we’ll have a live national call-in special to continue the conversation about race and law enforcement in America.
Hour 2: As the citizens of Dallas continue to cope with the shock of last week’s brutal attack on law enforcement officers, we’ll talk this hour with city leaders working to hold the community together. We’ll begin the show with a conversation with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and we’ll also be joined by Dallas Police Association vice president Michael Mata and Richie Butler, senior pastor of St. Paul United Methodist Church.
This hour on Think, we’ll talk about the ethics of reducing human involvement in war – and whether we should preemptively ban these machines – with Michael C. Horowitz, associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
This hour, we’ll talk about how millennials navigate their spiritual lives with Emma Green, who writes about religion for The Atlantic.
This hour, we’ll discuss the immigration and affirmative action decisions with SMU professor of law Lackland Bloom. And later in the show, we’ll preview the court’s upcoming decision concerning restrictive abortion laws in Texas with SMU associate professor of law Jessica Dixon Weaver.
This hour, we’ll talk about our blood supply – how it’s managed, why some people can donate when others can’t and about whether we’re equipped to mobilize mass blood drives in an emergency.
This hour, as part of KERA’s American Graduate Series, we’ll talk about creating more inclusive classrooms – and about what our schools can tell us about the nation’s future.
This hour, we’ll talk about the election season so far – and get a preview of the general election – with a panel of political scientists.
This hour, we’ll talk about creating healthy environments for children with panelists from SMU’s upcoming “Tipping the Scales for Children: From Ethics to Action to Wellbeing” conference.
This hour, we’ll learn how we can have more productive discussions with Daniel Shapiro, founder of the Harvard International Negotiation Program.
