Is The U.S. Gov’t Designating Too Many Documents As Classified’?

Historian Matthew Connelly says government records are marked as “classified” three times every second — and many of them will never be declassified. We talk about what that means for the public and how this might change. His new book is The Declassification Engine.

Also, John Powers reviews the French courtroom drama film Saint Omer by Alice Diop.