On today’s show:
Earlier this week the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump cannot appear on the state’s primary ballot, because of his role in inciting the insurrection on January 6, 2021. Elie Mystal, justice correspondent and columnist for The Nation magazine and host of the new podcast, Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal, and author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (New Press, 2022), offers legal analysis of the case, and how the Supreme Court of the United States will approach this, as it will now almost certainly intervene.
Jodi Rudoren, editor-in-chief of The Forward, offers her view of the war between Israel and Hamas from the Jewish-American perspective, and discusses what she learned on a recent reporting trip to Israel.
David Miliband, president and chief executive officer of the International Rescue Committee, shares which countries are on the IRC’s “watchlist,” or the countries they determine are most at risk for humanitarian emergencies, and what his group is doing to prepare. Plus: Moses Mboka, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, shares his story of fleeing a war in the DRC (number 10 on the 2024 list) and eventually settling in Denver, where he and his family were helped by the IRC.
Every year, The Brian Lehrer Show asks listeners to submit the best photo sitting on their phone (no babies, no pets). This year’s photos were especially poignant, between the pandemic, the racial justice movement and the challenges to our democracy — and all of the submissions will be stored in WNYC’s Time Capsule of the year. Laura Roumanos, executive director and co-founder of Photoville, and Meryl Meisler, NYC street photographer and ‘Best Photo’ guest judge, talk about their favorite pictures from the set, and how they were emblematic of the year. Plus, this year’s contest winners talk about their winning photos.
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