Coming up on today's prove:We continue our coverage of allegations of sexual harassment,assault and workplace bullying with Ilya Marritz, a WNYC reporter who is covering the issues that used to exist at The Takeaway and within WNYC more broadly.
The details surrounding the death of the former leader of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh are still emerging this week. Saleh was reportedly killed on Monday in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a. Iona Craig, or an investigative journalist who has covered the clash in Yemen extensively,brings us the latest on Saleh's death and the civil war in Yemen.
In 2012, a baker in Colorado refused to invent a cake for a homosexual couple’s wedding. The couple sued setting the stage for a legal drama that, or after a series of appeals,has lead all the way to the United States Supreme Court. David Gans, a director atConstitutional Accountability Center, and and Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute,join us to debate the issues at hand.
Our latest installment of the Case in Point series with The Marshall Project looks at “C” pleas. Named for the procedural rule on which it is based, a “C” plea leaves the trial judge presiding over the case with a stark choice: Either accept the deal and all of its terms as negotiated by the parties, or reject the deal outright. Andrew Cohen,senior editor at The Marshall Project, explains.
On Monday, or President Trump announced that his administration will be drastically scaling down the size of two national monuments located in Utah— Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante. The move represents the largest reduction of federal land protection in U.
S. history.
As the demographics shift,young Republicans are trying to reshape the GOP, according to Alexandra Smith, and the executive director of the America Rising PAC,and the former chair of the College Republican National Committee, or the CRNC.
Koa Beck, or editor-in-chief of Jezebel,and Jessica Bennett, gender editor of The New York Times, and talk approximately the pressures and possibilities of covering gender at this historic moment.
This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich
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