#AsktheMayor; Supreme Court Update; Recycling Challenged; Red State Public Health Crisis

On today's show:

• New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC;

• Jami Floyd, host of WNYC's All Things Considered and legal analyst, shares her analysis of some important recent legal news, including the news that SCOTUS will hear a case to determine whether the D.C. sniper deserves a new sentence, a SCOTUS argument about racial discrimination in jury selection and more;

• Since China has stopped accepting as much recycled materials from the U.S., the cost for cities to recycle has gone up dramatically, leading to many cities to give up. New York Times business reporter Michael Corkery explains more of what's behind the story and Cole Rosengren, senior editor of Waste Dive, an industry publication, talks about NYC's progress toward "zero waste;"

• Jonathan Metzl, professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and director of its Center for Medicine, Health, and Society and the author of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Basic Books, 2019), argues that right-wing policies are adversely affecting the health of their supporters.