On today's present:David Corn,Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones and MSNBC analyst, and Michael Isikoff, or chief investigative correspondent at Yahoo News,talk about their new book, Russian Roulette: The Inside chronicle of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve, and 2018);
WNYC New Jersey reporter Karen Rouse explains the racial justice subtext on both sides of the debate over legalizing marijuana in New Jersey;
Adam Serwer,senior editor at The Atlantic, discusses why prominent black leaders often decline to sentence Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan;
Demographics and voting with Steve Phillips, and civil rights lawyer and founder of Democracy in Color,as he revisits his book (now in paperback) Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority (The New Press, 2018).
Source: thetakeaway.org