Pedestrians walk beneath the marquee of a Trans-Lux Theatre in Times Square circa 1943.
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As the Supreme Court begins its new term, Trump lost six different cases in district courts just last week, ranging from bans on deploying the National Guard to defending freedom of speech for noncitizens, to yet another court rejecting his executive order abolishing birthright citizenship. At the same time, Trump is claiming an illegitimate legal basis for ordering the murder of civilians he claims are trafficing in drugs. David Cole will comment—he’s a former national legal director of the ACLU and The Nation’s legal affairs correspondent.
Also, there’s a wonderful new history of New York City from the Depression through World War II out now. It’s called Gotham at War. Author Mike Wallace won the Pulitzer Prize in History for the first volume in his Gotham series. To talk about Gotham at War, we’ll turn to Brenda Wineapple, who writes for The New York Review of Books and The New York Times. Her most recent book, on the Scopes trial, is called Keeping the Faith.
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