Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Making of Iraq, World Cup Fever, and an Eagle Adventure
U.S. soccer team at the World Cup today, high-profile departures at “The View” and ABC News, and new California law requiring disability insurance plans to cover mental illnesses. Next, turmoil in Iraq partly over borders drawn hundreds of years ago. Then, real-time feeds of wildlife and what happens when viewers decide to interfere with nature.
By Madeleine Brand • • 52m ListenIt’s make-or-break time for the U.S. soccer team at the World Cup today. If we win, we move on. If not, we’re out. In our weekly TV roundup, we talk about high-profile departures at “The View” and ABC News. Then: A new California law takes effect today requiring disability insurance plans to cover mental illnesses. But how hard is it to for people suffering from mental illness to navigate getting coverage? Next, the ongoing turmoil in Iraq can be partly traced to the drawing of the country’s modern borders hundreds of years ago -- we look at how they came to be. Finally, real-time feeds of wildlife have become popular on the Internet. But what happens when viewers decide to interfere with nature?
photo credit: By Steve Evans from Citizen of the World
