We talk about accountability, and what the future may hold for extremism locally and nationally with Joan Donovan, Research Director at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy and Andrew Lelling, former US Attorney for Massachusetts in the Trump Administration. Lelling coordinated with US Attorney's office in the District of Columbia on prosecutions.

Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern was there when insurrectionists stormed the capital on Jan. 6, 2021. We get his reflections one year later.

Plus, snow's coming, and while the forecast totals are still being adjusted, it looks like this one will probably stick. That means there will be snow to move - but will there be people and plows to move it?

We check back in with Jim Stanford, director of public works in North Andover, about its looming snow-removal equipment and operator shortage.

The rampant spread of the omicron variant has caused concern and disruption as schools return from the holidays this week.

Plus, we answer listener coronavirus questions in another edition of "Ask the Doctors."

Politico reporter Lisa Kashinsky and Gary Daffin, co-chair of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, join us to discuss what they'll be keeping an eye on across the political landscape in 2022.

Dr. Michael Mina, chief science officer at biotech software company eMed, joins us to talk all things testing.

We talk about the latest COVID headlines, and take your calls, with Dr. Cassandra Pierre from Boston Medical Center and Dr. Simone Wildes, an infectious disease expert at South Shore Health.

We discuss the obvious and the not-so-obvious challenges brought on by the pandemic, how the need to pivot quickly to remote learning created opportunities to reexamine institutional priorities, and how we can use the lessons learned throughout the last two years to make a better, more equitable future moving forward.