Week 2: POTUS Travel Ban Stirs Public Outcry ... and Lots of Questions

01/30/17 • 57 min

We take your calls on the recent executive order by President Trump enacting a ban on travel to the United States from certain countries with heavy Muslim populations, resulting in a burst of protests across the country over the weekend.

Law professor and director of the CLEAR project Ramzi Kassem clarifies the rules in place and who stands to be affected by them. We also talk to Betsy Fisher, policy director at the International Refugee Assistance Project, about the relation between resettlement policies and counter-terrorism efforts.

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The hosts include WNYC's Brian Lehrer, Minnesota Public Radio's Kerri Miller, WNYC's Kai Wright, John Prideaux and Anne McElvoy of The Economist and longtime conservative radio host Charlie Sykes.

WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, Freakonomics Radio, 2 Dope Queens, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.

The hosts include WNYC's Brian Lehrer, Minnesota Public Radio's Kerri Miller, WNYC's Kai Wright, John Prideaux and Anne McElvoy of The Economist and longtime conservative radio host Charlie Sykes.

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Week 1: How Donald Trump Challenges What We Assume About One Another

How can Americans get past what they think they know about one another? We may think we understand the guy in small town North Carolina who voted for Trump, or about the young woman protesting last weekend in Chicago.

Social media makes it easy to paint whole groups as racist, heathen or unpatriotic without ever hearing about what really motivates them.

Kerri Miller hosts a national conversation with Republican strategist Reed Galen and Metro State University anthropologist and social scientist Jose Santos about why it's so hard to set aside our mutual misconceptions.

This program was broadcast and produced in partnership with MPR.

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Week 2: President Trump Makes a Supreme Court Pick

We talk to Alberto Gonzales, former United States Attorney General and the former Counsel to President George W. Bush, and to WNYC host Jami Floyd, who is also an attorney, about Trump’s choice to succeed Antonin Scalia and what it means for the future of the court. They also visit President Trump's decision Monday night to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates for taking a critical stance against the travel ban.

WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, Freakonomics Radio, 2 Dope Queens, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.

The hosts include WNYC's Brian Lehrer, Minnesota Public Radio's Kerri Miller, WNYC's Kai Wright, John Prideaux and Anne McElvoy of The Economist and longtime conservative radio host Charlie Sykes.