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Amy Walter, Friday host of WNYC's The Takeaway and national editor at the Cook Political Report, discusses the gender gap in Trump's approval and more national politics. What we're seeing w gender gap is two-fold: first, engaged group of women who dislik

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Rebecca Traister Profiles Elizabeth Warren (First) | Trump's Economy, So Far (Starts at 24:04) | Ibtihaj Muhammad (Starts at 55:39) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on

Taffy Brodesser-Akner, staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times culture desk, talks about the growth of Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow's controversial lifestyle brand, and the lengths some women will go achieve wellness. @taffyakner says

Faiz Shakir, the national political director of the American Civil Liberties Union, talks about what the ACLU is doing to help reunite families separated at the border, plus, how the organization is mobilizing voters for the midterm elections across the

Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy and host of the Trump Inc. podcast at WNYC, and Adam Davidson, New Yorker staff writer, author of the magazine's "Swamp Chronicles" column and co-creator of NPR's Planet Money, talk about the Cohen

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC. The mayor talks about his frustration with the lack of information from the federal government regarding the children separated from their families at the borde

New Yorker cartoonists Liza Donnelly, Carolita Johnson and Liana Finck talk about a new exhibit at the Society of Illustrators celebrating the contributions of women who have drawn cartoons for the New Yorker since its founding. → Event: There will be a

Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, writer of the blog "Beat the Press," and author of Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer (Center for Economic and

In July of 2017, MTA Chairman Joe Lhota announced the Subway Action Plan to stabilize New York City's transit system. Aaron Gordon, freelance transportation reporter and founder of Signal Problems, a weekly newsletter about the subway, discusses whether

Elizabeth Holtzman, former U.S. congresswoman, Brooklyn DA, NYC comptroller, assistant to Mayor Lindsay, and current lawyer, talks about her letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen where she resigned from the Homeland Security Advisory Cou