08/19/2021 - Nothing Says Back to School Like "No Mask" Mandates

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown's Annenberg Institute, share their take on the news.On this episode: the morality, strategy, and politics of America's Afghanistan withdrawal; how the 2020 Census is giving Republicans and Democrats something to fret over; humanity's collective shrug after the IPCC's 'Code Red for Humanity'; the fall of the House of Cuomo; mask mandates and mask debates; what makes Jeff Bezos happy. You can listen to Trending Globally, another podcast from the Watson Institute, here.