How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways / The Future of Scouting / How “The Great Dissenter” John Harlan Influenced SCOTUS

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In this April 22, 2014 file photo, drivers enter Sacramento on Highway 50 to almost stop as traffic slows in western Sacramento, California.

AP Photo / Rich Pedroncelli, Dossier

President Biden has offered to spend billions to help reconnect black and low-income neighborhoods, which have been decimated by the construction of the federal highway system. And nearly 30 cities across the country are currently discussing some form of highway removal and restoration; we learn more about how racism shaped interstate highways.

Boys and girls are also leaving Scouting in record numbers, with Scout organizations reportedly losing nearly 2 million members nationwide during the pandemic. But there were issues before COVID-19 started. Plus, a conversation with the author of a new biography on former Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, one of the most influential figures in the American political and social landscape.

Today’s guests

Journalist, editor of the California Planning and Development Report, and author of “The Urban Mystique: Notes on California, Los Angeles, and Beyond”, Josh Stephens, and professor at the School of Engineering at the University of Connecticut, Norman Garrick , explaining the racist history of the federal highway system and how racism shaped interstate highways New York Times editor and reporter Clay Risen and professor in the Department of Family Sciences and Human Development at the University of State of Montclair Jennifer Brown Urban discuss future of Scouting in the United States and declining membership among Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts POLITICO Editor Peter Canellos on his new biography “The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero ”

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