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NPR’s Fresh Air: The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot on Prop. 8 Trial

In California, lawyers are two weeks into a landmark federal court case challenging California’s Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in that state.

Margaret Talbot has been blogging about the trial for The New Yorker’s Web site, and she has written about it in this week’s issue of the magazine.

A veteran journalist and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, Talbot writes about family life, women’s work, children’s culture, and politics and moral debates as they intersect with science and law. Her stories have been published in The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic Monthly.

Talbot joins Fresh Air host Terry Gross for a conversation about the Proposition 8 court case and what a decision — either way — might mean for the state of California and the country as a whole.

Listen to Terry’s Gross interview with Margaret Talbot or read the transcript here.