eBook Fight, Arctic Refuge, Halfway Home

Published: March 17, 2021, 8 p.m.

How Amazon is making it harder for public libraries to loan digital versions of books. Also, why caribou grazing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is important to keeping carbon dioxide locked in the frozen ground there. Then, how the entire system of incarceration in America undermines families, warps relationships, and makes it virtually impossible for people to rehabilitate after serving time. Also on today's show: the need for digital agriculture to combat the effects of climate change, why ending conversations can be so awkward, and how stories help us to grieve. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)