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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 171 days 12 hours 50 minutes
How States Are Battling 'Quarantine Fatigue'
In more than a dozen states across the country, COVID-19 is spiking up again. Alice Miranda Ollstein, health care reporter for POLITICO, discusses where states went wrong while reopening their economies.
Why 90K New Jersey Students Aren't Online
To date, 90,000 of New Jersey's children have not been able to connect to online classes during the past three months of the pandemic. State senator Teresa Ruiz (D NJ 29th district, Essex County), chair of the Senate Education Committee and Senate Presid
Friday Morning Politics: Early Voting Begins, Protests Continue
Brigid Bergin, the City Hall and politics reporter for WNYC, and Jake Offenhartz, reporter at Gothamist, talk about their continuing coverage of the protests in New York City, including the aftermath of the mass arrest in the Bronx last week. Plus what d
Restaurants Inch Toward Re-Opening
Serena Dai, editor at Eater NY, discusses how restaurants are reopening in NYC where the COVID-19 lockdown is lifting.
Making Black Trans Lives Matter
Imara Jones, founder and creator of Translash Media, Soros Equality fellow and journalist-in-residence at The Greene Space, and TS Candii, an organizer with DecrimNY and the Repeal the #WalkingWhileTrans Ban Coalition, tell the story of Tony McDade, a bl
Is Camden a Model for Police Reform?
Allison Steele, news reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, talks about the extent to which Camden, NJ's 2013 dissolution of its dysfunctional police department, and replacing it with a county force, can be a model for police reformers today.
Phase I on the Subways and Buses
Sarah Feinberg, interim president of New York City Transit, talks about the steps the MTA is taking to keep workers and riders safe as NYC enters Phase I of reopening.
Is It Time to Rethink Cop TV Shows?
Alyssa Rosenberg, Opinion writer covering culture at The Washington Post, argues that Hollywood should immediately halt production on cop shows and movies, and rethink the stories it tells about policing in America.
Bishop Barber on the Movement
William Barber, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, member of the national board of the NAACP and the chair of its Legislative Political Action Committee, pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC, architect of the Moral
Cut $1.1 Billion From NYPD Budget, Says Comptroller's Plan
Scott Stringer, New York City Comptroller, talks about his proposal to cut almost $1.1 billion from the NYPD's budget in the next four years.