This week we discuss a revealing escalation in political conflict in the United States. And, I recently spoke with Professor Yader Lanuza of the University of California-Santa Barbara about his recent paper titled "Giving (Money) Back To Parents: Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant-Native Variation in Monetary Exchanges During the Transition to Adulthood." The paper is to be published in Sociological Forum, and is sole-authored.

Segment 1 -- Yader Lanuza on "Giving (Money) Back To Parents: Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant-Native Variation in Monetary Exchanges During the Transition to Adulthood"

Segment 2 -- An escalating political conflict reveals raw power to be the only operating principle of some U.S. officials