Kat Rosenfield, a freelance writer and YA author, discusses her latest article in New York Magazine which looks at how social media-fueled criticisms can ruin a YA book's chances at success -- and how these Twitter "call outs" are making YA authors, publishers and agents afraid of offending the social media mob.

Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Trump, is now looking at the president's past real-estate deals and other business dealings.  Adam Davidson, a staff writer at The New Yorker, examines one foreign deal which could come up in the investigation: a stalled 2011 plan to build a Trump Tower in Batumi, a city on the Black Sea in the Republic of Georgia, a deal which is intertwined with a Kazakh oligarch who has direct links to Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin. 

A.C. Thompson, ProPublica staff reporter, talks about what he calls the "new incarnation of the white supremacy movement" that was on display over the weekend in Charlottesville, and reacts to the president's remarks on the violence.  

Families with a member facing a mental health crisis have an alternative to dialing 911: mobile crisis teams. A mobile crisis team is a group of health professionals, such as nurses, social workers and psychiatrists, who can provide mental health services, primarily in people's homes.

Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC reporter, Lance Winslow, Mobile Crisis supervisor, and Steve Coe, CEO of Community Access explain how mobile crisis teams work, and discuss other alternatives to calling law enforcement when emotionally disturbed people experience a mental health crisis.

To reach a mobile crisis team, people must call NYC Well, which is the city's mental health hotline. 

Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative, professor of law at New York University Law School and author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Spiegel & Grau, 2015), and Anne Pasternak, director of the Brooklyn Museum, talk about the museum's current exhibit, The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, which traces the history of racial injustice in America with a specific focus on how lynching was used as a tool of racial control, to reestablish white supremacy and suppress black civil rights after slavery was formerly abolished. 

Last week tension between the United States and North Korea reached a fever pitch, with President Donald Trump saying Tuesday that North Korea will be "met with fire and fury like the world has never seen" if it continues to threaten America.

Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War analyzes the likelihood of a nuclear conflict with Kim Jong-un's regime and Jean Lee, Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, reports from Seoul on how President Trump's war of words with North Korea is being heard by citizens in North and South Korea. 

This weekend a white supremacist rally in Virginia protesting a plan to remove a confederate era statue led to violence and death in Charlottesville Virginia. Domestic Affairs Correspondent for The New York Times Sheryl Gay Stolberg and FiveThirtyEight political writer, Perry Bacon Jr. discuss the violence Charlottesville, its aftermath, and examine the nation's response. 

Jonah Ogles, articles editor at Outside Magazine, talks about the run on applications for senior lifetime passes and the debate over capping admissions to certain national parks plus listeners share their national park stories.  

Over the summer, the New Yorker and the New York Times separately looked into when and why the Administration for Children's Services removes children from homes in NYC. It's an issue, we looked into earlier this week. 

David Hansell, Commissioner of ACS, discusses the ACS new reform-focused agenda, including training caseworkers to recognize "implicit bias," which might lead them unconsciously to treat some families different than others. He'll also discuss what has happened with reporting issues of neglect and/or abuse and the responses in the aftermath of the death of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins in 2016. 

Jay Caspian Kang, a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine, discusses his new article, which chronicles the death of college freshman Michael Deng, from hazing and how it relates to larger questions of Asian-American identity and notions of belonging. Plus: He discusses how the Justice Department's announcement that it will investigate how affirmative action policies at universities may discriminate against certain groups of students is reverberating in Asian-American communities.