Dec 13 9:00 PM

How has Connecticut's mental health system changed after Newtown?

A school bus in Newtown, Conn. On Dec. 18, 2012.
Photo by Brendan Smialowski

How has Connecticut's mental health system changed one year after Newtown?

Guests: 

Patricia Rehmer
Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (@CTDMHAS). 

Read more about changes within the Connecticut state mental health system, via The Connecticut Mirror.

AP reports American was working for CIA when taken captive in Iran

According to an AP exclusive, Robert Levinson was on a CIA mission when he was taken captive in Iran.

Guest: 

Ted Bridis @tbridis 
Washington investigative editor for The Associated Press.

How will Levinson's case affect other Americans being held captive? 

Guests:

Don Borelli @don_borelli 
Chief operating officer of the Soufan Group and a former member of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Roxana Saberi @SaberiRoxana 
Al Jazeera America reporter, who was held captive in Iran for 100 days in 2009 on espionage charges.

Could exercise be as effective as prescription drugs in treating heart disease and diabetes?

Guests: 

Dr. Mallika Marshall @MallikaMarshall 
Urgent care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Devi Nampiaparampil @devichechi 
Assistant professor at the NYU School of Medicine.

Read more about the potential health benefits of exercise (via The New York Times), the Food and Drug Administration's plan to limit antibiotics in livestock (via Al Jazeera America), and a new study on the amount of drugs found in drinking water (via The New Republic).  

What did Jesus look like? 

Guests: 

The Rev. Paul Raushenbush @Raushenbush 
Senior religion editor of The Huffington Post. 

Jonathan Merritt @JonathanMerritt
Senior columnist for Religion News Service.

Read Merritt's essay for The Atlantic on the recent debate over Jesus Christ's skin color.

 

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