Children in Immigration Detention; (Solar) Power to the People; Eugene Robinson's 'Personal History of America'; What Makes Your Dog the Best?

On today's show:

• Elora Mukherjee, professor at Columbia Law School and director of Columbia Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, talks about the many children detained by US immigration authorities and argues for alternatives to detention for families.

• Elizabeth Yeampierre, attorney and executive director of UPROSE, talks about the Sunset Park Solar, a grassroots project seeking to bring green power to Sunset Park residents.

• Eugene Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist, former columnist and associate editor of The Washington Post, political analyst and author of Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America (Simon & Schuster, 2026), shares his own family's story as it intersects with America's ongoing struggle with structural racism -- what's been accomplished and what still needs to be done.

• With the Westminster Dog Show underway at MSG, listeners share what their dogs deserve a medal for and Elias Weiss Friedman, aka @TheDogist on Instagram, author of This Dog Will Change Your Life (Ballantine, 2025) and host of a new YouTube talk show, shares what makes the dogs he photographs special.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.