International Criminal Court, Tik Tok Activism, Hacker for Hire

Trump Administration Threatens International Criminal Court (0:32) Guest: Eric Jensen, JD, Professor of International Law, Brigham Young University President Trump, last week, issued an executive order threatening to sanction any people or organizations that cooperate with the International Criminal Court. If the President follows through with the threat, it could mean financial and legal trouble for Americans who work for – or with – the International Criminal Court. It could also be problem for the court’s own finances. What Are Trump’s Opportunity Zones? (21:29) Guest: Brady Meixell, Research Analyst, The Urban Institute  As the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matters protests draw the nation’s attention to inequalities facing black Americans, the Trump Administration is looking to extend a program it created to lure investment into impoverished minority neighborhoods that previous Presidents might have called “the ghetto.” Today, they’re dubbed Opportunity Zones and the 2017 tax reform created incentives to attract new investment. A DNA Barcode on a Head of Lettuce? New Advances in Tracking Foodborne Illnesses (37:05) Guest: Michael Springer, Associate Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School Foodborne illnesses like E. Coli and Salmonella make 43 million Americans sick every year and kill thousands of people. When a cluster of infections pops up, pathologists race to track down the source and stop distribution of the contaminated food. But sometimes it takes a while to pinpoint the culprit, so we end up with a situation like we had in 2018 where all romaine lettuce was pulled from stores and restaurants until the experts could figure out exactly where the E. Coli was coming from that made hundreds of people sick. Researchers at Harvard are working on a way to put DNA “barcodes” on fresh produce so a contaminated item could be quickly traced right back to the processing plant or farm it came from. Tik Tok Activism (52:41) Guest: David Meyer, Professor of Sociology in the School of S