Every night, there were ways in which things that had not been done before were done, including

a Secretary of State weighing in from Jerusalem.

Both party conventions were unconventional, but in very different ways.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media, I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Also, it's back to school time.

What does that even mean now?

When you see these university presidents making stride in statements around, welcoming students back to campus, I think that's Latin for parents.

Please send in your tuition check.

Even as campus life shrivels and universities ponder their futures, some students will thrive in the academic environment shaped by the virus. Is it too strong to say that online school saved your life? I mean, I was suicidal at the time

because I had failed and felt that I had no other options. So maybe it's not too strong to literally

say it saved my life.

Yeah, I could say it did for sure.

So coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

After an unusually grim week in an endless series, one in which a young black father

shot in the back by a cop in Kenosha, Wisconsin in front of his three kids, that moment and nothing

else was captured on video.

They shot my son seven times like he didn't matter.

But my son matters.

He's a human being and he matters.

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