Trump Tax Returns, Water Bills, China's Tracking Uighurs

The President’s Tax Returns Stay Private, For Now (0:31) Guest: Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Professor of Law, Stetson University, Brennan Center fellow, author of “Political Brands” and “Corporate Citizen?” Both President Trump and his critics are claiming victory in the US Supreme Court’s ruling on whether or not he can be compelled to release his tax returns. Water Bills Around the Country Have Dramatically Risen in Recent Decades (20:36) Guest: Roger Colton, Public Utilities Economics Consultant, Fisher Sheehan & Colton How’s your water bill these days? On average, water bills in US cities have jumped a lot in the last decade. So much, so, that America is verging on a water affordability crisis. Is it because we’re running out of water? Or because of something else? Soda Ads Skyrocket (36:42) Guest: Jennifer Harris, Senior Research Advisor, University of Connecticut's Rudd Center  Soda consumption has been steadily declining in the US for over a decade now. But teens, minority and low-income youth are a different story. The Rudd Center’s latest “Sugary Drink Facts” report finds that young people consume sugary drinks in the US at a disproportionate level. And that parallels large increases in advertising aimed at youth overall, and Black and Brown youth in particular. The Volcano under Yellowstone Might Be Chilling Out (52:53) Guest: Thomas Knott, Geochemist at the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, UK. 2020 has definitely felt a bit apocalyptic. What with the fires in Australia, a pandemic, locusts, and killer hornets. It seems like the only thing that could make it worse would the eruption of the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park. But here’s some good news: a new geological survey of Yellowstone shows that the next major eruption might be much, much further away than previously thought. Tracking the Uighur People of China (1:10:34) Guest: Darren Byler, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder The US la