Today on the show, California comes in dead last in Pew's latest election performance report. Then, are women in politics subject to a double standard? Plus, Michael Lewis's "Flash Boys" shows how Wall Street is rigged by high-frequency trading, SDSU offers its first zombies class to reanimate students, the long path of reconciliation for victims of the Rwandan genocide and much more.
Women in Politics: Is there a double-standard?
Last week, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton berated the media — she said powerful women were treated with a double standard. She got a lot of flack for that remark, but recent events make one wonder if there wasn't something to that statement.
Take for example, the comments made by former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden on Fox News Sunday, where he remarked on Senator Dianne Feinstein's "deep emotional feeling." Or the mock portrait which appeared yesterday on Breitbart.com of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, scantily clad, on all fours looking upwards with her tongue lolling out.
For more, we're joined by Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate and co-editor of DoubleX, Slate’s spinoff site for women.
Report: California worst in nation for election performance
A new national study done by the Pew Charitable Trusts ranks California near the bottom when it comes to election performance.
RELATED: California scores low on quality, efficiency of elections
The Election Performance Index report shows that in California, nearly 30 percent of all regular mail ballots went unreturned in 2012. That figure places California the worst in the nation. The study also shows that California is among the only two states -- us and Vermont -- that don't let voters look up information online.
Right now we turn to Dean Logan, LA County registrar, to get his response.
Michael Lewis: 'Flash Boys' shows how Wall Street is rigged by high-frequency trading
Michael Lewis has made a name for himself tackling complicated problems in his books like "The Big Short," about the build-up of the U.S. housing bubble and "Money Ball," about the Oakland A's data-driven approach to the game of baseball.
His latest book, "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt," tells the story of Brad Katsuyama, a banker from Canada, who's discovered that the stock market is rigged by traders — known as high-frequency traders — who set up their computers to preempt other trades by milliseconds.
Just days before Lewis's book came out, New York's Attorney General announced he was looking into the practice. Since the book hit shelves last week, the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department have announced their own investigations.
Michael Lewis joined Take Two to talk about the allegations and what that reaction's meant for the book.
SDSU offers its first zombies class to reanimate students
Zombies are almost everywhere in pop culture: "The Walking Dead is a hit on TV, Brad Pitt just saved all the "walking living" in "World War Z", based on Max Brooks' novel, and, killing zombies is almost a rite of passage in video games.
Beth Accomando from KPBS says San Diego State University has found a way to put the zombie renaissance to good use this semester.
Humans taking jobs from robots in Japan-based Toyota plants
After years of replacing man with machine on the production line, carmaker Toyota has recently decided to go back to humans. For more on this story, we turn to Craig Trudell, Bloomberg reporter in Tokyo.
Tuesday Reviewsday: Madlib, D'Angelo, Mobb Deep, Heidi Vogel and Frankie Knuckles
This week on Tuesday Reviewsday, Oliver Wang from Soul-Sides.com and music supervisor
join us to talk about the latest in music.
Oliver's Picks:
Artist: Freddie Gibbs + Madlib
Album: Piñata
Song: Broken feat. Scarface
Freddie, a rapper from Gary, Indiana came to Los Angeles and worked with Madlib — one of the most respected and prolific producers in the industry. Madlib has a long history of collaboration projects like this. For example: Jaylib (him and Jay Dee), Madvillain (him and MF Doom), so it seems crazy that they didn't take the opportunity to call this album MadGib, or something like that.
"Piñata" seems like the least likely fit since Freddie's style is pretty thugged-out while Madlib's best known for his jazzy loops. But the partnership works partially because of the dissonance in hearing their styles meshed together.
Check out an interview that Freddie Gibbs and Madlib did with Rolling Stone.
Artist: Mobb Deep w/ Raekwon, Ghostface Killah and Nas
Album: The Infamous Mobb Deep
Songs: Eye for an Eye (previously unreleased version)
New deluxe version of the album pairs the new LP with songs related to the group's breakout sophomore album from 1995, "The Infamous." It includes unreleased songs — and early versions — of many of their classics. It's fascinating and worthwhile for Mobb Deep fans.
Artist: Frankie Knuckles
Album: Beyond the Mix (1991)
Song: The Whistle Song
The godfather of house died at age 59 last week. Easily one of the most influential DJs of all time, Knuckles established himself in the Chicago music scene and has left a lasting impact.
Morgan's Picks
Artist: D'Angelo
Album: Live At The Jazz Cafe, London (1995)
Song: Lady
Fans of the ever elusive neo-soul singer are no doubt overjoyed at the release of this album, which features a collection of songs from his debut project, 1995's Brown Sugar. There was a five-year gap until the release of his next album, 2000's Voodoo. Fans are still waiting for new works, but they'll have to settle for this most recent version of D'Angelo.
Artist: Heidi Vogel
Album: Turn Up The Quiet
Song: Dindi feat. Austin Peralta
The Cinematic Orchestra's lead singer has taken her love for Brazilian music to a full length album. Turn Up the Quiet has been reissued with bonus tracks and remixes.
The long path of reconciliation for victims of the Rwandan genocide
This week marks the 20-year anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide.
In 1994, from April 7 to mid-July, around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by the Hutu majority during the country's Civil War. The UN and western countries — including the US — were criticized for their lack of response.
Now, 20 years later, the memories of these horrific events are being commemorated in Kigali, Rwanda and around the globe. However, these memories can still be fresh to survivors who've lived through the violence and to perpetrators who committed it.
For look at the process of reconciliation that started two decades ago and continues today, we're also joined by Lisa Pruitt, a professor of law at UC Davis and has consulted in the prosecution of sex crimes for the International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda.
City officials propose big cleanup of Skid Row
Los Angeles is known for good weather, Hollywood, and the most concentrated area of homelessness in the country. It's in the 52-block area of downtown known as Skid Row, and this week, city officials are proposing a big cleanup of the area.
For more on how this would work, we're joined by Carol Sobel, a civil rights attorney who has represented L.A.'s homeless in federal courts for last 14 years.
New policies suggested to combat drug addiction in California prisons
New state regulations have been suggested to crack down on rampant drug and alcohol abuse in the prison system, but just how big of a problem is addiction behind bars?
Don Thompson of the Associated Press joined Take Two to discuss the statistics from a drug screening last year and details of the proposed new policies.
A prison drug and alcohol use is examined, what are the treatment options available for inmates looking to rid themselves of addiction? And how effective are they?
Susan Foster, vice president and Director of Policy Research and Analysis at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse joins us to discuss.
Farmers in The Delta: Deep connections to rich agricultural history
The California Delta is a triangle area filled with a puzzle of waterways and islands. It's where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers come together, and a focus of decades of fights over water.
The California Report's Lisa Morehouse introduces us to people who live and work at the center of California's water distribution system.
How groundwater pumping leads to subsidence, or sinking of the earth
Just south of the San Joaquin Valley Delta lies some of California's most fertile farming lands in the world. But to keep the crops green, farmers use groundwater, they pump it from wells deep underground.
That creates a rather troubling effect called subsidence, or the sinking of the earth. Here with more is hydrologist Jay Famiglietti, director for the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling at UC Irvine.