The former Commissioner of Bureau Statistics weighs in on the absurdity that is Trump’s decision to fire her successor following a weak jobs report; why a high-ranking U.S. official’s trip to Gaza may be a substitute for action and not a call to it; and Abdi Nazemian’s young-adult novel “Like A Love Story” is the subject of this week’s “Velshi Banned Book Club.”

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