richard norton smith, michael beschloss, lara brown, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> ifill: next: a novel that combines the magic of genies, and the reality of terror in our own time. jeffrey brown has our story from the newshour bookshelf. >> brown: in salman rushdie's new novel, the genies or gin are out of the bottle and on the loose in new york, entering through a crack in the world, wringing on a time of what's called the strangenesses. >> it was dark, a time the start attacking the city. one of them has a tendency to turn into a sea monster, and he just rises up. >> brown: it's a world in some ways like our on, reason battedling extremism, a rising city where great towers suddenly disappear, a beautiful day on the water, but a police boat keeping watch. in the novel, fear is in the air, but so is magic. these are genies, after all. >> the book uses comic devices, but it's of course talking about something serious, abattack on the city. >> brown: mixing magic and reality, myth and history, it's what salman rushdie has been doing in his writing for decades. his ne

the lara act would have prevented landmark decisions like the brown vs. board of education, which desegregated schools. griswold vs. connecticut which established constitutional protections for right to privacy. and loving vs. virginia which ended bans on interracial marriage. rather than quote-unquote preventing abuse, this bill would promote civil rights abuse, weaken courts' ability to crack down on people who seek to discriminate illegally at work, school, or the voting booth. congress should not pass this bill now or ever. i think it's particularly offensive when a government -- job crushing government shut down is looming to talk about these other items. rather than discussing how we can avoid a job crushing government shut down. mr. speaker, i want to make sure i'm clear. these issues we should discuss. natural resources, world health organizations that estimates two million people a year are killed because of air pollution. putting forth these bills now does nothing to eliminate or deal with a job crushing government shut down. over just 16 days i