Legal News Roundup; The Complicated Legacy of Dr. J. Marion Sims; Making a Gaggle; A Refugee's Journey to America

Coming up on today's show:

• Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, and the Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School, breaks down the weeks legal news from the FBI raid on the office of Trump's personal lawyer to SCOTUS cases on tax collection and immigration.
• The city removed a statue of the controversial gynecologist J. Marion Sims from its perch in Central Park Tuesday. Barron Lerner, bioethicist, historian of medicine and internist at New York University’s Langone Medical Center and the author of The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (Beacon Press, 2014), and Harriet Washington, medical ethicist and the author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present and Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness (Back Bay Books, 2016), discuss the legacy of the doctor who experimented on slaves, but also pioneered the cure for fistula, a complication of childbirth, and what his story teaches us about ethics in medicine. 
• Tobin Low, co-host and co-managing editor of the WNYC podcast Nancy, and Kathy Tu, co-host and co-managing editor of the WNYC podcast Nancy, talk about the third season of their podcast Nancy and the launch of their month-long engagement project on making queer friends.
• Mohammed Al Samawi, interfaith activist and author of The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America (William Morrow, 2018), reflects on how strangers of different faiths helped him escape Aden during Yemen's ongoing war.