On the ground details of the fatal police shooting and resulting protests in Charlotte, North Carolina with Joe Marusak, reporter for The Charlotte Observer.

Sara Gorman, PhD, MPH, and Jack Gorman, MD, psychiatrist and CEO and chief scientific officer of Franklin Behavioral Health Consultants, father-and-daughter coauthors of Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us (Oxford University Press, 2016), review the latest neuroscience and psychological research to explain why humans seem particularly prone to ignoring science when it comes to vaccinations, antibiotic use and other healthcare options. 

We can't ignore the development of self-driving cars, so the government is trying to figure out how these cars can be implemented in society with new federal guidelines.

"They didn't go so far as to say these are the rules," says Cecelia Kang, tech policy reporter for The New York Times. "Any rules on technology are going to get outdated quickly."

Kang discusses the new checklist and the support for self-driving cars announced by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Economic Council on Monday.

Trump's charity is under scrutiny, his university is the subject of an investigation and he's been fined for improper campaign donations in the past. But none of those stories have had staying power like potential conflicts of interest at the Clinton Foundation. John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker, looks into why.

Hear an audio history of the gender wage gap in America and Heidi Hartmann, founding president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, discusses the plight of the working women's attempts to receive equal pay as their male counterparts.

Darren Samuelsohn, senior policy reporter and contributor to POLITICO Magazine and The Agenda, discusses the reactions from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to the New York and New Jersey bombings and the latest news regarding their presidential campaigns.

Rick "Ozzie" Nelson, former director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, and currently a nonresident senior associate at CSIS, Maria "Maki" Haberfeld, professor of police science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Rocco Parascandola, NY Daily News Police bureau chief and author of GUNZ AND GOD: The Life of an NYPD Undercover, discuss the possible motives of the man suspected of planting bombs around New York City and New Jersey — including whether he was radicalized and if so, by what group.

Tom Wolfe, author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and his newest, The Kingdom of Speech, reviews the history of various theories for how and why humans talk and makes the case all human achievement comes as a result of our ability to speak.

Michelle Alexander, a visiting professor at the Union Theological Seminary, civil rights advocate and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness(The New Press, 2012), and Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, President of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, discuss the need for a new common narrative about who we are as a country, which incorporates America's morally flawed history.

"What is far more important than who we vote for on election day, is what we do the day after." Michelle Alexander on @BrianLehrer

The corruption trial of two former allies of Governor Chris Christie in the Bridgegate scandal finally gets underway this week. Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for Politics & Policy for WNYC News, and Matt Katz, WNYC and New Jersey Public Radio reporter who covers Donald Trump and Chris Christie and the creator of  The Christie Tracker and the author of American Governor: Chris Christie's Bridge to Redemption (Threshold Editions, 2016), brought us the latest from the courtroom.

Here are some key takeaways from the court proceedings so far by Matt and Andrea: 

1. Christie knew.   Since the Bridgegate scandal broke, the key organizer of the lane closures, David Wildstein, who has pleaded guilty, has hinted that “evidence exists” that Christie knew of the closures while they were happening. Now, prosecutors came out and said it. On the third day of the closures, at a Sept. 11 memorial service at the World Trade Center, Wildstein and defendant Bill Baroni had a “precious few minutes with Gov. Christie," assistant U.S. attorney Vikas Khanna told the jury. The pair "bragged about the traffic problems they were having in Fort Lee and that Mayor Sokolich was not getting his calls returned.” Christie hasn’t explicitly denied that Wildstein raised the issue of the traffic jams at that event, but has said he wouldn’t remember it if Wildstein had, because traffic problems are so common in New Jersey. Today’s arguments indicate that Christie was told about the closures, and not just in passing.

2. “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee” email was just a joke. Michael Critchley, attorney for Bridget Anne Kelly, told jurors that the smoking gun email was banter, just a joke, exchanged as part of a casual conversation with Wildstein. The mother of four going through a divorce at the time of the email was juggling lower-level duties -- ordering food for events and scheduling meetings at the governor’s mansion. “The idea that Bridget Kelly is directing the affairs of the state of New Jersey, ordering the shutdown of the George Washington Bridge...it’s almost absurd,” Critchley said. He argued that Kelly was a “scapegoat,” blamed by the governor’s lawyers for the lane closures to protect Christie’s nascent presidential campaign. “They wanted to throw her under the presidential bus.”

3. Bridgegate felon David Wildstein was Christie's master of political dark arts. According to Baroni’s defense attorney, Christie referred to Wildstein as his “fixer.” The governor used to joke that Wildstein was his Mr. Wolf from the movie Pulp Fiction, the Harvey Keitel character who cleans up the bodies. Christie has said he barely met with Wildstein while he was governor, but in court, defense attorneys said the evidence will show Christie kept close tabs on Wildstein.

4. Wildstein was in Christie’s inner circle. Critchley displayed a chart in the courtroom with Christie at the center, titled “Inner Circle.” Arrayed around the governor were six men — including Wildstein. This characterization directly contradicts the way Christie has characterized their relationship — as almost non-existent. But defense attorneys say Wildstein and Christie met frequently, even having rapid-fire “red light/green light” meetings where they’d decide who’d get fired and which politically-connected appointees to install in those positions. Critchley said: “David Wildste...