Coming up on today's show:
- Nicholas Fandos, New York Times reporter covering Congress, previews the congressional session ahead, including a forthcoming vote related to impeaching the president, scheduled for this Thursday.
- The Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a new rule that would make it more difficult to bring discrimination claims under the Fair Housing Act. Elaine Gross, president of ERASE Racism, a Syosset-based nonprofit argues the change would lead to more discriminatory housing practices in Long Island, one of the most racially segregated regions in the country.
- Erica Moiah James, art historian and founder the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, and Michael Weissenstein, AP Caribbean news director, discuss the latest developments from the Bahamas, where Hurricane Dorian caused mass destruction last week.
- Dina Nayeri, award-winning novelist who emigrated to the U.S. from Iran as a child, now based in London, and the author ofThe Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You (Catapult, 2019), talks about her first non-fiction book about her own history, and that of other asylum-seekers.
