Coming up on today’s show:
- Antifa, short for “anti-fascist,” is a loosely-organized, wide amalgamation of leftist activists whose expressed purpose is to stand up against white supremacy and Nazism. Peter Beinart, a contributing editor for The Atlantic who has reported extensively on antifa, provides a short history of the movement, and what role it may have had in Charlottesville.
- On Wednesday, President Donald Trump disbanded his Manufacturing Council and Strategy and Policy Forum after several business leaders resigned, due to the president’s handling of the situation in Charlottesville. Sheelah Kolhatkar, a staff writer at The New Yorker, explains.
- Recent reports from aid groups show that hundreds of migrants, many of them traveling from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, have been thrown overboard by smugglers, a devastating development in what is already on track to be the deadliest year on record for migrant crossings. William Lacy Swing, director general of the International Organization for Migration, weighs in.
- There are hundreds of people missing, and hundreds more dead in Sierra Leone, after massive mudslides decimated the capital city of Freetown. The city is close to sea level and has a poor drainage system, and deforestation has exacerbated the consequences of flooding and mudslides, according to Jaime Yaya Barry, a researcher for the West and Central Africa bureaus of The New York Times.
- Amnesty International reports that there have been dozens of police killings of suspected drug dealers in Indonesia, leading some to fear that a policy in the Philippines could be spreading to neighboring countries. Phelim Kine, deputy director of the Asia division at Human Rights Watch, reflects on the violence.
- This year, the Labor Department is taking G Farms in El Mirage, Arizona, to court over accusations that it has underpaid and inadequately housed some of its workers who are here on temporary visas known as H2As. For a look at the suit, The Takeaway turns to Philip Martin of the Migration Policy Institute.
- Indie rock band Spoon, formed in 1993 by lead singer and guitarist Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno, are currently on tour promoting their ninth studio album, “Hot Thoughts.” Daniel discusses the group’s work and creative process today on The Takeaway.
This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich.