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The State of Business in NY and NJ
Greg David, contributor covering fiscal economic issues for THE CITY and director of the business and economics and Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, and Daniel Munoz, politics, government and economic develop
The Stakes of Remote College for International Students
Nicole Agu, vice chair for international student affairs University Student Senate of CUNY, and Dan Berger, partner at Curran, Berger & Kludt, specializing in academic immigration, discuss the response to a new ICE policy requiring international coll
Fixing Liberalism
Zerlina Maxwell, MSNBC political analyst, senior director of Progressive Programming for SiriusXM and the co-host of Signal Boost, talks about the day's political news and her new book, The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide (Hachette
A History of Alt-Media and Political Junkyism
Claire Potter, professor of history at the New School and executive editor of Public Seminar, talks about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy (Basic Books, 2020)
All The President's Tax Returns
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that while a sitting president does not need a subpoena to meet a special standard, Congress can only get access to President Donald Trump's tax returns and other business records if they complete a four-factor test i
N.Y.C. Schools Will Not Fully Reopen in Fall
Elizabeth Kim, senior editor for Gothamist, and Sophia Chang, reporter for Gothamist, talk about the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in New York.
An American in France: I'm Watching the U.S. Lose to COVID-19
Thomas Chatterton Williams, contributing writer at The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine and author of Losing my Cool and Self-Portrait in Black and White, talks about how France tamed the new coronavirus and the differences between France and the
A Doctor's Story
Michele Harper, emergency room physician and the author The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir (Riverhead Books, 2020), talks about her work as an emergency room physician at Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx as a Black woman and reflects on that work in the curre
What Does the Census Do?
Julie Menin, director of NYC Census 2020 and executive assistant corporation counsel for NYC law department, and Lurie Daniel Favors, interim executive director of the Center for Law and Social Justice at CUNY’s Medgar Evers College, explain how the 2020
Sen. Gillibrand: The Next Relief Package
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D NY) talks about the Senate's response to the public health and economic crisis.