Monday Morning Politics; NJ Takes Action on Guns, Abortion; Francis Fukuyama; What to Know About Monkeypox

Coming up on today's show: 

• Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation and the author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (The New Press, 2022), discusses the latest political news, including President Joe Biden's executive order to protect abortion rights and what this week's January 6th Committee hearing might reveal.
• Brent Johnson, politics reporter for The Star-Ledger and nj.com, talks about the new state budget and the state's response to the Supreme Court's rulings on guns and abortion.
• Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, former State Department official, and author of The End of History and the Last Man (Free Press, 1992) and his latest, Liberalism and Its Discontents (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), reflects on the state of liberal democracy, which had seemed ascendant in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, and offers a critique of the current state of liberalism.
• Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD, infectious disease clinician and researcher at Columbia, ProHEALTH chief of the division of infectious disease, senior fellow for Infectious Disease at UHG Research and Development, and president of Parasites Without Borders, and Joseph Osmundson, microbiologist and writer, author of Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022), share updates on the monkeypox outbreak, including common symptoms, assessing risks, testing, treatment, the vaccine rollout, plus your questions.

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