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Our favorites from this week include: An Unseemly Presidential Transition (First) | College Essays: How Much Help Is Fair? (Starts 17:47) | The Best Books of 2017 (Starts 42:05) (article)
Ask the Mayor; Did You Drink Too Much in 2017?; Year-End New Quiz (episode)
Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
Did you drink too much in 2017? Ana Maria Cox talks about her experience with alcoholism and how to aspire for progress, not perfection.
A look back at this year’s biggest and most memorable news stories.
Code Blue For NYC; Chancellor Fariña Stepping Down; Wednesday Morning Politics; The Mueller Investigation: Looking Back and Forward; Year-End Tax Strategies (episode)
How the city is protecting vulnerable people when the city’s temperature dips to extreme lows.
Chancelllor Carmen Fariña reflects on her accomplishments and the challenges of leading the country's largest school district.
From President Hoover to President Roosevelt, Amy Davidson Sorkin discusses the lessons from an unseemly presidential transition.
A look back at the Mueller investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia and what's ahead.
What you need to know about Governor Cuomo's executive order allowing pre-payment of property taxes. Plus, more tax strategies for this year.
Holiday Week Politics; Small Business Owners Grapple with Making the New Minimum Wage Work; College Essays: How Much Help Is Fair? (episode)
Need proof that every vote counts? In Virginia, a single vote in a recount ended GOP control the statehouse.
Jonathan Medows, of Medows CPA, PLLC, answers questions from listeners about what to do now to prepare for the new tax bill.
Minimum wage is going up next year, but can small businesses handle it?
A look at the growing number of parents hiring essay coaches to help their kids write their college admission essays.
Robert Reich on Saving Capitalism; Counting the 'Uncounted'; The Interlaced History of Hoaxes and Race; What It Means to Have a 'Wrongful Birth'; Grammar Rules for the Digital Age (episode)
Our favorites from this week include: Racial Stereotypes in the Media, Holiday Tipping, How to Raise Sweet Kids (article)
How Putin Won Big; Is There Still Hope for 'Dreamers?'; How To Report on UFOs (episode)
How Russia's strongman president took a gamble on manipulating the American public, and how that risk payed off.
Lawyers and immigration rights activists weigh in on the fate of DACA.
Longtime NYPR hosts Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz have been fired for violating “standards for providing an inclusive, appropriate and respectful work environment.”
New York Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal discusses the $22 million program in the Pentagon that investigates UFOs and what it took to break the story.
Therapists take a look at the trends and themes emerged in sessions with patients.
Thursday Morning Politics; #MeToo in Ford's Chicago Factories; Christmas In Rikers Is Extremely Cold; Keeping the Holidays Bright (episode)
What comes next after the tax bill passes the President's desk?
In the 1990s, a string of lawsuits and an EEOC investigation at Ford resulted in a $22 million settlement, but despite the company's best efforts sexual and racial harassment persists.
For people incarcerated at Rikers the holiday season is far from joyful with limited heat in much of the jail and restrictive visiting hours.
How the elements cuts across religious traditions for the holidays.
Mark-Viverito's Final Days Marked By Flurry Of Voting; How We Are Raising Our Kids in an Era of Anger; Why Presidents Keep Losing Wars (episode)
In the speakers final days, the City Council is voted on 38 pieces of legislation from The Right to Know Act to a requirement for a gender-neutral pronoun on some city forms.
Just at holiday tipping time, New York State is considering calling for an end to the lower minimum wage for tipped workers.
How gendered messaging affects kids and why we need to raise boys to be more empathetic.
How presidential shortcomings as military leaders and strategists have resulted in one failure after another in the decades since World War II.
Mueller Investigation; News Media and Racial Stereotyping; The Fourth Plan; The Murky Reality of Sexual Consent (episode)
How Trump's responses to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election echoes that of Nixon's during Watergate.
Poverty and single parenthood are serious issues for black Americans; so are college costs and property taxes. And yet, a new study found that news outlets still lean on old stereotypes.
Recommendations from the Regional Plan Association on how we can improve the quality of life for people in the New York Metro area.
The gender editor for The New York Times talks about the media's role in the conversation around sexual harassment.