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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 171 days 7 hours 36 minutes
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.
Who Gets to See NYPD Body Camera Footage?
A new policy requires New York City police to release all body camera footage of shootings and other instances when force is used and injury or death occurs. Jennvine Wong , staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society's Cop Accountability Project, talks ab
NJ Primary Day: Voting Reports
As callers share their choices in our unofficial, thoroughly unscientific exit poll, David Cruz, NJTV News senior correspondent, reports on the ins and outs of voting during the pandemic in New Jersey.
The History Behind The Rise Of The Modern Republican Party
Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, co-host of the podcast Politics and Polls, and author of Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republi
Speak to the Speaker: The New Budget
Corey Johnson, New York City Council Speaker, takes calls from listeners and discusses the new City budget.
Trump Suspends Some Foreign Worker Visas Through January
Anu Joshi, vice president of policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, talks about the latest immigration news, including President Trump's suspension of new work visas until the end of the year.
Monday Morning Politics: Dr. Christina Greer on Racist Mascots and the NYPD
Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University, host of the podcast "FAQNYC," politics editor at The Grio and author of Black Ethnics (Oxford University Press, 2013), talks on local and national politics, including Trump's July 4th ra