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Race and Specialized High School Admissions
Ahead of Thursday's public hearing in Manhattan, New York Senator John Liu (D, 11-Queens), chair of the NYC Education Committee, talks about Albany's role in addressing diversity in NYC schools, including proposals to change the admissions process at the
Our Hair, Our Stories
Rohina Hoffman, fine art photographer, neurologist and author of Hair Stories (Damiani, 2019), explores the significance of women's hair through her art and interviews with women of varying ages and ethnicities. When my mother started losing her hair due
India and Australia's Polarizing Leaders Will Likely Remain
Krishna Andavolu, correspondent for Vice News Tonight, and Jamie Tarabay, a correspondent for The New York Times based in Sydney, Australia, discuss the dramatic election results in India and Australia, and take listener calls.
NYC's Immigration Court Is a 'Pressure Cooker'
Beth Fertig, WNYC senior reporter covering courts and legal affairs, talks about her latest reporting on the city's immigration courts, and the pressures that judges are under. "It’s very frightening for the people going," to immigration court in NYC, sa
Democrats Skirmish Over Impeachment
Michael Scherer, national political reporter for The Washington Post, talks about the latest in the skirmish between Congress and the White House over subpoenas for information and testimony, and the reports of growing support for starting formal impeach
The SAT's New Adversity Score
Scott Jaschik, editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed., explains why the College Board plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT. The score is meant to assess the student's economic and social background.
Anita Hill's Courage and PEN America
Attorney, law professor, equal rights activist and recipient of the 2019 PEN Courage award, Anita Hill and PEN America chief executive officer, Suzanne Nossel talk about Prof. Hill's work on behalf of gender and racial equality and her award. There will
What New York City Owes Eric Garner?
Mara Gay, New York Times editorial board member and Phil Stinson, professor and criminologist at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, reports on the latest from the administrative trial of police officer Daniel Pantaleo who killed Eric Garner in 2015.
Scott Pelley's Stories from 45 Years as a Journalist
60 Minutes correspondent and former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, now the author of Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times (Hanover Square Press, 2019) talks about the importance of a free press through t
How Fury Can Fuel the Fight for Reproductive Rights
In the wake of Alabama's abortion bans, more states announce their rollbacks on reproductive rights. Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York Magazine and the author of, most recently, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon &