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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 172 days 9 hours 49 minutes
Navigating the Trump White House Investigations
Karoun Demirjian, Washington Post Congressional reporter, discusses the latest developments in the investigations into President Donald Trump’s administration.
Malliotakis' Call to End New York Sanctuary
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has created a list of 170 "serious crimes, violent crimes" for which the city would cooperate with ICE on deportation proceedings. New York State Assembly member, Nicole Malliotakis, says it does not go far enough to co
The Latest on Immigrants' Rights and Sanctuary Cities
Steven Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition , explains what he wishes Gov. Cuomo would do to for immigrants' rights, and discusses Attorney General Jeff Sessions' announcement that the federal government will withhold federal gr
The Key to Utopia
Rutger Bregman, a journalist and the author of Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Little, Brown and Company 2017), discusses how we can get to a world where we there is a universal basic income, a 15-hour work week, and open borders f
From Russia to Trump Tower
Paul Manafort lasted only a few months as Donald Trump’s unpaid campaign manager but he continues to make headlines for his political and financial ties to Russia. Ilya Marritz, WNYC reporter, and Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy f
How the NY State Budget Will Affect the City
Ben Max, executive editor of Gotham Gazette. Lawmakers are busy hammering out the final New York State budget, which is expected to be finished by the end of this week. Max talks about how it will affect New York City, including the proposed "mansion tax
Sweetening the Deal for Democrats
After the embarrassing failure of the Republicans' health care bill, President Trump's chief strategist Steven Bannon says the White House will be busy with executive orders and other policy moves this week. Tara Palmeri, POLITICO White House corresponde
Keeping Garifuna in the Bronx
The month of March marks 220 years since the Garifuna people were exiled from St. Vincent and resettled in Central and Northern America. The South Bronx is now home to the largest community outside of the Caribbean, with more than 100,000 Garifuna people
The Story of Migrant Sanctuary
Fernanda Echávarri, producer for NPR’s Latino USA, joins us to discuss her Latino USA segment about the history of the Sanctuary Movement, a grassroots movement for immigrants and refugees.
The Future of Healthcare and the Opioid Crisis
Grant Smith, deputy director of National Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance, discusses what’s at stake for the most severe drug overdose epidemic in U.S. history, as the federal government grapples with healthcare.