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SOTU Breakdown and Analysis with Ana Marie Cox; SOTU Worldview; What Are You Ambivalent About?; Screens & Kids: How Much? How Early? (episode)
Ana Marie Cox, host of the podcast With Friends Like These, breaks down President Trump's State of the Union address, and takes calls.
Susan Glasser offers analysis of the State of the Union from a world news perspective.
Listeners call in to confess issues they are ambivalent about, despite party lines.
NPR's Anya Kamenetz explores the questions of how much and how soon for children and digital devices through the scientific evidence available.
SOTU Preview; New Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez; The Nuclear Button Debate; A Young Woman's Guide to Social Change (episode)
A State of the Union speech is traditionally used to lay out policy pitches for the year, but given Trump's day-to-day record of contradicting himself, what should we listen for tonight?
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez talks about his work in Brooklyn and his new initiative to strengthen community trust in the criminal justice system.
The debate over the authority to launch nuclear weapons and the international movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Marley Dias talks about the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign to collect children's books featuring black protagonists and her new book.
A Sanctuary Church in Action; "Imagine Amnesty;" Monday Morning Politics; Data and Public Policy (episode)
The Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale, senior co-pastor of the Reformed Church of Highland Park in New Jersey, talks about his church's work as a sanctuary for immigrants and refugees in the area.
Imagine if all law-abiding unauthorized immigrants, and all residents with some form of temporary permit, were granted permanent legal status tomorrow. How would their lives change?
POLITICO's chief Washington correspondent Edward-Isaac Dovere reports on latest political news from inside the Beltway.
A SUNY-Albany professor warns of the use of data mining and algorithms in public policy and providing public services, saying it fosters inequality.
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Ask the Mayor; Davos and Tariffs; The 'Troubling Origins' of Bones at the American Museum of Natural History; 'The Future Is History' in Russia (episode)
Mayor Bill de Blasio makes his case for prioritizing subway signal repairs over station upgrades, and addresses the controversy over a donor who tried to bribe the mayor.
Karl Vick, TIME editor-at-large, talks about President Trump’s visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland as he renews his "America First" agenda.
After the museum obtained skeletons of the Herero people of Namibia, who were massacred by the Germans in the 20th century, the museum must grapple with the right thing to do about them.
The New Yorker's Masha Gessen traces the lives of four people growing up in post-Soviet Russia and follows the nation's democratic potential and fall towards autocracy in a new book.
Cory Booker, U.S. Senator (D-NJ) , talks about his work on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
TRussia: Flynn Again; Meet the New NYC Transit Chief; Women at Work; NYC Greenlights Her (episode)
NBC reporter Carol Lee reports on how Michael Flynn kept secrets from the administration in his interview with the FBI over his ties to Russia.
The new head of the New York City Transit Authority, Andy Byford, talks about his new job running the subways, buses, para-transit services and the Staten Island Railway.
What we need to do to end the ongoing struggle against gender bias in the workplace.
#GreenLightHer is a competition between women screenwriters, which the city hopes will address the under representation of women in the film and television industry.
The Debate on Merit-Based vs. Family Unification Immigration; Let’s Talk About Class With Anna Sale; "Reciprocal Radicalization" (episode)
Matthew O'Brien makes the case for a merit-based immigration system for the United States while Anu Joshi lays out the benefits for the current family unification immigration system.
Anna Sale, host of Death Sex and Money, takes calls about your class status and when you've felt it most in your life.
Julia Ebner argues that opposing extremists, Islamists and the far right, have created a cycle of rage that serves both groups' political aims while threatening liberal democracies.
The End of the Shutdown; Congestion Pricing to "Fix NYC"; How #MeToo Has Affected Pop Culture History; Wisdom of the Aged (episode)
The federal government is on its way to re-opening. But what happens next and what is the fate of the "Dreamers" and DACA?
Scott Rechler talks about the proposal put forth by Fix NYC to provide a dedicated revenue stream to fund subway repair by charging cars and trucks to drive into Manhattan.
Why the books, movies and TV shows from pop culture’s archives look a little different now in the light of the #MeToo movement.
John Leland talks about his experience of following the lives of five of NYC's "oldest old" and how it changed his outlook on aging and where to find happiness.
Monday Morning Politics; How Trump's New Refugee Policy is Affecting Real People; Mayors as Problem Solvers; As If You Knew the End of the Story (episode)
Elise Foley, politics and immigration reporter at HuffPost, discusses the latest on the day three of the government shutdown and the latest on the the DACA deal.
Matt Katz talks about the dramatic shift in U.S. refugee policy under President Trump, through the story of two Congolese refugees.
Former Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter talks about his time as mayor of Philadelphia and why local governments often work better than the one in Washington.
If you could know the day you would die, would you want to know? Novelist Chloe Benjamin delves into the question her new book The Immortalists.
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