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Is There A Liberal and Conservative Way to Fight a Pandemic?
Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) discusses balancing the risks of reopening against the risks of community spread of COVID-19. Then, Leana Wen, M.D., emergency physician and public health professor at Georg
How We're Voting
Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program, and Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones, covering voting rights and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, talk about how
Colin Quinn's Take on the Not-So-United States
Colin Quinn, stand-up comedian, writer, performer and the author of Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States (St. Martin's Press, 2020), offers his distinctive observations on the crazy-quilt design of this country and the contradictions and c
(Some) Students With Disabilities Go Back to School
Lori Podvesker, director of disability and education policy at INCLUDEnyc, talks about the special challenges students and families in NYC's District 75, which services students with disabilities, face as the new school year begins.
Tuesday Morning Politics
Amber Phillips, Washington Post political reporter and author for The 5-Minute Fix, and Errol Louis, political anchor on Spectrum News NY1, host of Inside City Hall on NY1, host of the podcast You Decide and New York Daily News columnist, discuss the lat
Second Wave of COVID-19 and Lockdowns Ahead?
Ramanan Laxminarayan, economist, epidemiologist and founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has played out in India, which is on track to surpass the United States as
The Politics of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Replacement
Since Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death late last week, Republicans have vowed to push through her replacement before the election. Sabrina Siddiqui, national politics reporter at The Wall Street Journal and political analyst at CNN, talks about the Republican
What RBG Meant to You
Listeners call in to share what Ruth Bader Ginsburg meant to them—to their lives, careers, families and relationships.
The Life and Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jami Floyd, senior editor for race & justice and legal editor at WNYC, talks about the life and legacy of the late, legendary Supreme Court justice.
The Black Vote and the Democratic Party
Theodore Johnson, senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, talks about how and why despite holding diverse political opinions, Black Americans vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.