Elizabeth Holtzman; 'Summer of Hell' One Year Later; Trump's Economy; Women Cartoonists

Coming up on today's show: 

• Elizabeth Holtzman, the former U.S. congresswoman, Brooklyn DA, NYC comptroller, assistant to Mayor Lindsay and the author of three books, who is currently a lawyer in New York City, talks about her letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen where she resigned from the Homeland Security Advisory Council over the Trump administration's treatment of immigrants and refugees, and called on Nielsen to resign.

• In July of 2017, MTA Chairman Joe Lhota announced the Subway Action Plan to stabilize New York City's transit system. Aaron Gordon, freelance transportation reporter and founder of Signal Problems, a weekly newsletter about the subway, discusses whether the plan worked out.

• Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, writer of the blog "Beat the Press," and author of How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer (Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2016), talks about the Trump administration’s new poverty report and progressives’ proposals for a federal jobs guarantee and universal basic income.

• New Yorker cartoonists Liza Donnelly, Carolita Johnson and Liana Finck talk about a new exhibit at the Society of Illustrators celebrating the contributions of women who have drawn cartoons for The New Yorker since its founding.