Every weekday morning, hosts Shumita Basu and Duarte Geraldino bring you up to speed on top headlines and discuss some of the most fascinating stories in the news. You can find links to everything mentioned in today’s show right here.

Some of the country’s largest school districts are abandoning plans for in-person classes this fall. The Atlantic hears from former government officials on what steps could be taken to get students back in class. And Vox offers an explainer on the debate behind reopening schools.

Alabama Republicans voted Tuesday in a runoff election that effectively ended Jeff Sessions’s political career. The Washington Post examines the former attorney general’s rise and fall.

With extra unemployment benefits set to expire in two weeks, The New Yorker looks at how one California town is trying to offset poverty through a universal basic income program.

And from Bloomberg Businessweek, a story about why our dogs won’t be happy when the pandemic is over.