Rep. Nadler on National Politics; The Legal Battle Surrounding 3-D Printable Guns; What's the News From Your Neighborhood?; Kids and Gender

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 1, 2018

  • Jerrold Nadler, U.S. Representative (D, NY-10), ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, talks about the Mueller investigation and other Washington news.

  • Andy Greenberg, senior writer for WIRED, covering security, privacy, information freedom, and hacker culture, discusses the current legal battle which decides whether banning 3-D printable guns is a violation of free speech and the 2nd Amendment.

  • Listeners call in to share the local news from their neighborhoods.

  • Tey Meadow, assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University and the author of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press, 2018), talks about her interviews with parents of non-gender-conforming kids, as society moves from seeking to cure to acceptance of their self-designation and discusses what the latest research shows about how gender is acquired.

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