The Travel Ban; Harassment at NYPR; Plastic Bag Ban; Complicated Paths to Asylum; The Walls Are Going Up

On today's show...

• Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments on the president's travel ban today. Elie Mystal, editor-at-large of Above the Law and legal editor for WNYC's podcast More Perfect, previews the arguments and what's at stake.
• WNYC reporters Jessica Gould and Ilya Marritz talk about an investigation and report by the law firm Proskauer Rose that looked into allegations of harassment and bullying at NYPR, which found harassing behavior but no evidence of systemic discrimination.
• Brad Lander, Brooklyn City Council member (D-39 -- Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Columbia Waterfront, Gowanus, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington), talks about the governor's proposed plastic bag ban, and other local news.
• Sisi Wei, investigative reporter, designer and developer at ProPublica, tells the stories of asylum seekers and the multiple but difficult paths they can pursue to gain asylum plus talks about the game she created to give people an idea of how difficult it is to gain asylum here in the U.S. Matt Katz, WNYC reporter covering refugees, immigration and security, reports on what happens to asylees who "win" citizenship and are left to fend for themselves in a foreign country. 
• Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and the author of Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism (Portfolio, 2018) talks about the rise of anti-democratic populists around the world in response to the perceived threats to safety and prosperity and how supporters of liberal democracy can respond.