Midday

Iranian-born political analyst Trita Parsi, and two local members of the Iranian diaspora in America join Tom to discuss the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran.

Writer and filmmaker John Sayles joins Tom to discuss his historical novel, "Crucible," about industrialist Henry Ford’s impact on labor and racial politics 100 years ago.

Maryland Food Bank president and CEO Meg Kimmel discusses how new SNAP work requirements approved last year by Congress could threaten benefits for tens of thousands of Maryland food stamp recipients.

Dr. Jessica Stansbury, an educational technology specialist at University of Baltimore, describes her and her husband's experience during their experiment with an AI "companion."

Reporter Adam Willis, who covers climate and the environment for the Baltimore Banner, joins us to discuss rising energy prices and what the governor and Maryland's Democratic lawmakers plan to do about them.

Javed, an Afghani émigré to the US, and Krish Vignarajah, the president and CEO of Global Refuge, discuss the human impact of the wars in Iran and Afghanistan.

Independent reporter Madeleine O'Neill and Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle co-founder Dayvon Love discuss how juveniles are being charged and housed in Maryland's criminal justice system.

Choirmaster and conductor Doug Buchanan joins us to discuss Sunday's Bach Marathon, and the classic Mass in B Minor that he'll be conducting.

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Iron Crow Theatre's new production of the hit Broadway rock musical, 'Next to Normal,' at the M&T Bank Exchange performance space in Baltimore.

David Blight, acclaimed biographer of Frederick Douglass, recalls the famed Black orator's 1852 speech contrasting the promises of our Declaration of Independence with the horrors of slavery.