It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, filling in for Brian today.

On today's show, we're going to have a conversation

we teased yesterday but didn't get a chance to have it because of that breaking Supreme Court

news. This is about ranked choice voting. The filmmaker of a new documentary about it and

advocate for the voting system in New York will join us. Plus, for the climate story of the week, how the new city budget affects climate goals of New York City school buildings.

Teachers, principals, we're going to want to hear from you during that segment.

And lastly, if you're experiencing sticker shock while shopping for summer clothes or maybe you have to buy a dress for a summer

wedding, you're not crazy. That's because clothing prices have jumped recently. We're going to dig

into why and the differences between expensive items and the $14 fast fashion dress. But first,

we're going to take a moment today to consider the evolution of Republican women candidates in the age of Donald Trump.

Maybe you saw that recent New York magazine cover featuring a collage of body parts, including the likes of Marjorie Taylor Green and Christy Noem.

That fractured image is part of the theme of writer Rebecca

Traster's exploration of the reconstructed hyperfemininity and hypermasculinity that's come to define

the women who are now the face of the modern Republican Party. As the illustration shows,

a high hill on one foot and a hiking boot on the other,

Traster writes, quote, as we cruise toward November with two ancient white men on the presidential ticket

and the rights of millions of people who are not white men in the balance, the public performance

of Republican womanhood has become fractured, frenzied, and far less coherent than ever.

In the performance of modern Republican womanhood, there are many contradictions.

Rebecca Traster is writer at large at New York Magazine and The Cut, and she joins me now

to talk about her recent cover story headlined, how did Republican women end up like this? The baffling contradictory

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