April 20, 2024

Part One: Mark Stern writes for Slate and joins us to talk about his recent piece, “Mike Pence Has Become Trump’s Pathetic Culture War Prop.” Pence began as a powerful VP, but his role has been diminished.

Part Two: We look at disaster response – “Should Uncle Sam Send in the Marines After Hurricanes? is the title of a recent piece at theconversation.com co-authored by Julia Brooks Legal Research Associate at the Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action at Harvard’s Humanitarian Institute and Dave Pollaty, Director of Civilian-Military Humanitarian Response Program, Co-Director of the NWC-Harvard School of Public Health Joint Civilian-Military Humanitarian Working Group at the US Naval War College.