Fossil Fuels in the EU; Noncitizen Voting in NYC; Moving Abroad; SCOTUS Update

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 30, 2022

Coming up on today's show:

  • Bill McKibben, educator, environmentalist, and co-founder of 350.org, and author of several books including Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (Henry Holt and Co., 2020), joins to talk about the news from Europe, where the E.U. reached a deal to phase out fossil fuels by 2035.

  • A Staten Island judge struck down a law that would have given some 800,000 New Yorkers voting rights in municipal elections. Theodore Moore, vice president of policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, discusses this decision.
  • Between gun violence, the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, bigotry and other reasons, some Americans say they want to move abroad. Laura Begley Bloom, travel expert and senior contributor at Forbes, and Jessica Drucker, consultant who helps lgbtq folks move abroad and the author of How To Move Abroad And Why It’s The Best Thing You’ll Do (independently published, 2020) trade tips on how to make that happen, and listeners reflect on the class implications of leaving, and whether they are conflicted about leaving.

  • Aziz Huq, professor of law at the University of Chicago School of Law, and Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's Political Gabfest podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School, and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), discuss the last two opinions from the Supreme Court and reflect on this term and what comes next.

 

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.

 

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