Scott Pruitt's Radical New EPA, Tokyo's Avant Garde, How Polluters Silence Dissent

Mother Jones reporter Rebecca Leber follows Scott Pruitt's destruction of the EPA in her new cover story, "Making America Toxic Again.” In his new memoir A Tokyo Romance, New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma writes about coming of age in Tokyo's avant garde scene during the 1970's. Uzodinma (Uzo) Iweala discusses Speak No Evil, his critically-acclaimed novel about two teenagers wrestling with identity and familial pressures in Washington D.C. Ian MacDougall, Senior Reporting Fellow at ProPublica, talks about his story for Harper’s Magazine, “Empty Suits: Defamation law and the price of dissent."

This episode is guest hosted by DW Gibson.