Monday Morning Politics; Medical Aid in Dying Act; Forgiveness After a Shooting; Friends and Money

On today's show:

• Francesca Chambers, a White House Correspondent for USA Today, talks about the news from Washington and beyond.

•  Advocates have been pushing for nine years for New York to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication to terminally ill adults, but the state legislature has been hesitant to act. David Leven, executive director emeritus and senior consultant to End of Life Choices New York, and Corinne Carey, senior campaign director for NY/NJ for the group Compassion & Choices, discuss what the proposed bill would involve and why people support it.

• Mark Hertsgaard, journalist and co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now, and the author of Big Red’s Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and A Story of Race in America (Pegasus, 2024), shares the story of Deborah “Big Red” Cotton, an African American racial justice activist, who forgave the young Black men who shot her when they fired into a second line parade in New Orleans, a shooting in which Hertsgaard himself was injured -- and what that shooting and her response to it taught him about race and violence in America.

• Julia Carpenter, freelance writer and spring host of Apple News In Conversation, offers advice for listeners on either side of a financial divide in their friendships.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.