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Brooklyn's Borough President on NYPD Morale and Solving the Rat Crisis
Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President, discusses the latest city news, including an apparent slowdown in NYPD arrests and tickets after Officer Pantaleo's firing and a potential new solution to curb NYC's rat problem.
The Long War on Terror
Heather Hurlburt, columnist at New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer, and Initiative Director at New America, Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg Opinion editor, and Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of
What Does 9/11 Mean to New Yorkers?
Mary Marshall Clark, Director of the Center for Oral History Research at Columbia University, and the driving force behind the September 11th Oral Histories Project, talks about how 9/11 exists in the minds of those who lived through it, as told to her t
What a Refugee Knows
Dina Nayeri, award-winning novelist who emigrated to the U.S. from Iran as a child, now based in London, and the author of The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You (Catapult, 2019), talks about her first non-fiction book about her own histo
Updates from the Bahamas
Erica Moiah James, art historian and founder the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, and Michael Weissenstein, AP Caribbean news director, discuss the latest developments from the Bahamas, where Hurricane Dorian caused mass destruction last week.
A New HUD Rule Could Dismantle the Fair Housing Act
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a new rule that would make it more difficult to bring discrimination claims under the Fair Housing Act. Elaine Gross, president of ERASE Racism, a Syosset-based nonprofit argues the change would
Democrats will Finally Vote on the impeachment Investigation this Week
Nicholas Fandos, New York Times reporter covering Congress, previews the congressional session ahead, including the first congressional vote related to the potential impeachment of President Donald Trump, which is set to take place this Thursday.
Microsoft's President: The Responsibilities of Tech
Brad Smith, Microsoft president and the author (with Carol Ann Browne) of Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age (Penguin Press, 2019), argues that the leaders of the tech companies need to take responsibility for the downsides o
The CDC Says Stop Vaping
The CDC suggested that people stop vaping until public health officials can get a better handle on an epidemic of lung disease that has sickened as many as 450 people, with three deaths, spanning over 30 states. Ana Ibarra, journalist covering health car
Malcolm Gladwell on Stranger Danger
Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer at The New Yorker, host of the podcast "Revisionist History", and the author of many books, including his latest Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), e