First hour: Former Roosevelt Fellow Matt Stoller explains "how Democrats lost their populist soul"
Second hour: M.D. candidate says he regrets donating a kidney; should he?
Former Roosevelt Fellow Matt Stoller has written a blistering takedown of Democratic policy, tracing the decline to the "Watergate Babies" of 1975. Stoller argues that Democrats abandoned a dedication to protecting American communities through trust-busting and anti-monopoly policy. The result, he writes, is a concentration of power and a working class fury that just produced President Donald Trump. So what next, in this Brandeis-or-Bork struggle? Stoller is urging Democrats to return to those roots as a way of protecting Democracy, adding jobs, and earning working class votes again. He's our guest for the hour.
In our second hour: kidney donor and Georgetown M.D. candidate Michael Poulson caused a national stir with his piece in the Washington Post titled, "At 18 years old he donated a kidney. Now he regrets it." Poulson says that potential donors are being undersold the risks, and over-promised the safety. He's urging more transparency in the system. But is he right? Our guests will discuss their own experience and understanding of the safety of organ donation.
- Michael Poulson, kidney donor and M.D. candidate at Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Dr. Jeremy Taylor, clinical director of nephrology for the URMC Division of Solid Organ Transplant
- Erika Venniro, PA, clinical manager for kidney transplant in the URMC Division of Solid Organ Transplant
- Yantee Slobert, kidney transplant recipient
- Erin Mattil, kidney donor
- Annette Mattil, Erin's wife
