WNYC's The Stakes; SCOTUS and LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination; Earth Week: Air Pollution; Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 23, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Kai Wright, editor and host of WNYC’s narrative unit, host of podcasts United States of Anxiety and There Goes the Neighborhood and a columnist for The Nation magazine, talks about his new podcast called The Stakes. It's a show that seeks to understand why we live the way we do (and why it matters) and recaps his conversation with Eric Holder, the former attorney general of the United States.
- The Supreme Court agreed to hear two LGBTQ workplace discrimination cases. Gabriel Arkles, senior staff attorney at the ACLU, talks about the significance of these cases, and specifically the case of Aimee Stephens, a transgender woman who was fired when her employer learned she was trans.
- Beth Gardiner, environmental journalist and the author of Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution (University of Chicago Press, 2019)
- After the coordinated bombings on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka that left at least 290 people dead, Ishaan Tharoor, foreign affairs writer for The Washington Post , talks about the emerging terror threat in the country. And Sri Lankan listeners in New York weigh in on how their community is dealing with the tragedy.
