Life for Women in the Trucking Industry, Getting Past Talking Points in Presidential Debates

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 23, 2016

Journalist Mary Pilon investigated the hundreds of gender-discrimination claims brought against the trucking industry over the past 20 years. NPR’s Cairo Bureau Chief Leila Fadel discusses Tunisia’s political stability in the five years since the Arab Spring. Elizabeth Cobbs tells the true love story of founding father Alexander Hamilton and his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler, in The Hamilton Affair. Why our presidential debates are so boring, and what can be done to make them better. 

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