Midday with Dan Rodricks

A look at what it’s like to re-enter society following incarceration with three former Baltimore offenders who are all recent graduates of the Jericho Re-entry Program, a local year-long program to help get formerly incarcerated men get back on their feet.

From staffing problems to continued battles with local communities, a look at the state of the world’s largest retailer with Lana Stewart , cashier at the Laurel Wal-Mart and a member of a worker-rights organization at the store; Mackenzie Baris, an organizer with Jobs with Justice and an activist with Respect DC; Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How it’s Transforming the American Economy; and Rebekah Massengil, author of Wal-Mart Wars: Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century.

In the first of a two-part series on immigration, former NPR correspondent Andrea Seabrook’s political podcast, Decode DC, explores this serious and volatile subject and looks at how humor can get closer to solving a problem than political talking points ever could. Guest host Korva Coleman

President Obama is demanding action following the Pentagon survey that showed sexual assaults sharply on the rise, and  by the thousands. We look at the problem in the military with Roz Branson, executive director of TurnAround Inc. of Baltimore. Then, in the wake of a handful of high-profile complaints filed against some of the nation’s most elite colleges, a trio of student activists join us to discuss sexual assault on campus: Em Cooper, a founder of the Coalition For Sexual Violence Prevention and Awareness at Johns Hopkins University; Alexandra Brodsky, a former Yale student who was part of a group that filed a Title 9 complaint against the university in 2011; and Henry Bergman, co-president of Men for Consent at Williams College.