July 23, 2018: Hour 2

July 23, 2018: Hour 2

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The debate about abortion will be a big topic during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. We check in with Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News, about some basic facts on abortion. Also, Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold died Saturday at 57. Resident chef Kathy Gunst says Gold’s writing “invited you in,” and that if he “wrote about your taco truck, or about the chile-fish stew at your Sichuan restaurant, he was about to change your life.” And accessing mental health care in developed countries can be difficult. In developing countries like Honduras, it’s often nonexistent. That and more, in hour two of Here & Now’s July 23, 2018 full broadcast.