Inequality and Taxes; Brooklyn Primaries; Global Vaccinations; How to Rank Your Vote Choices
On today's show:
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ProPublica received a trove of Internal Revenue Service data showing that the wealthiest Americans "sidestep" income taxes, legally. Jesse Eisinger, senior reporter and editor at ProPublica and the author of The Chickenshit Club: The Justice Department and Its Failure to Prosecute White-Collar Criminals (Simon & Schuster, 2017) talks about his reporting and what it says about the inequality baked into the U.S. tax system.
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Ese Olumhense, a politics reporter for City Limits, talks about the primaries for borough president and key city council seats in Brooklyn.
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S. Mitra Kalita, co-founder of URL Media and CEO and publisher of Epicenter-NYC, and Emily Rauhala, foreign affairs reporter at The Washington Post, talk about the role the United States is playing in global vaccine distribution.
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With early voting in the New York City primaries underway, WNYC's senior political correspondent Brigid Bergin talks about what to keep in mind while ranking candidates and where the campaigns stand now.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
