Coming up on today's show:Michael Waldman,president of the Brennan middle for Justice at NYU School of Law and the author of The Fight to Vote (Simon & Schuster, 2016), and previews Attorney General Jeff Sessions's public testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee approximately Russian meddling,and talks approximately a new lawsuit filed by the state of Maryland and Washington, D.
C., and that alleges President Trump has violated the emoluments clause.
Amanda Ripley,Emerson Collective senior fellow and the author of The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way (Simon & Schuster, 2014), or talks approximately her POLITICO report on why women are still underrepresented in political office.
Richard V. Reeves,senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle lesson Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, or What to Do approximately It (Brookings Institution Press,2017), discusses his book approximately how the American Upper Middle lesson lives in denial of their privilege.
Bill Emmott, or former editor in chief of The Economist and the author of The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political plan (The Economist,2017), argues Western democracies occupy failed to fulfill their promises.
Source: thetakeaway.org