National Politics; Banning CRT; Gun Violence Documentary; Losing Your Accent

On today's show:

• E.J. Dionne, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, university professor at Georgetown University, and visiting professor at Harvard University and co-author of the forthcoming 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting (The New Press, 2022), talks about national politics, including where the Democrats go from here with the Build Back Better pieces and the start of Pres. Biden's second year in office.
• Brian Jones, director of the Center for Educators and Schools at New York Public Library and contributor to Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice (Haymarket Books, 2020), talks about efforts around the country to ban teaching critical race theory in classrooms -- what that means and how students and teachers and our understanding of history is affected.
• Jody Schiliro, producer and director of the documentary "GSW Gun Shot Wound", talks about the film, which looks at routine gun violence through the eyes of the nation's leading trauma surgeons. She is joined by Noe Romo, MD, medical director of Jacobi’s Stand Up to Violence program and director of pediatric inpatient services at Jacobi Medical Center (NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi), who is featured in the documentary.
• Listeners call in to share how their relationship with their regional accents have evolved throughout their lives and dialect coach Erik Singer joins the discussion to break down the origins of the distinctive regional features of accents.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.