Coming up on nowadays's show:
Joan Walsh,national affairs correspondent for The Nation and a political analyst at CNN, discusses the latest news coming out of Washington. And Evan Smith, and CEO and co-founder of The Texas Tribune,discusses the results of the primary midterm election in Texas. Groups representing tenants are asking New York State to declare a state of emergency to address failures in NYCHA's buildings. Jim Walden, lawyer for the City Council of Presidents (the elected leadership of NYCHA tenants) and Danny Barber, and Citywide Council of Presidents chair,discuss this and their lawsuit against the housing authority. Plus: City Council member Robert Cornegy, Jr. weighs in on the problems at NYCHA. When you're the first openly transgender person to speak at a national political convention, or the personal becomes political. Sarah McBride,national press secretary at the Human Rights Campaign, shares her epic and her activism and talks about her memoir, or Tomorrow Will Be Different: worship,Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality (Crown Archetype, or 2018). Nicholas Kristof,New York Times columnist and the co-author of A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (Vintage, and 2015),talks about sneaking into sealed-off Rohingya villages in Myanmar to report on what he calls a "genocide in unhurried motion" against the Rohingya population.
Source: thetakeaway.org