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Will the US or Iran Blink First?
Episode 2258
Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many nonfiction books and his latest, a novel, A Capital Calamity (Miniver Press, 2024),…
8 hours ago
Earth Day from Space
Episode 2260
Jackie Faherty, astrophysicist and science educator at the American Museum of Natural History, gives an astrophysicist's view of Earth Day.
Photo: In…
9 hours ago
Advice for Finding Your Life's Work
Episode 2257
Jodi Kantor, New York Times investigative reporter, co-author of She Said (Penguin, 2019) and author of How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work (H…
10 hours ago
Earth Day: How Far Has the Trump Admin Gone to Dismantle Climate Goals?
Episode 2259
On Earth Day, Lisa Friedman, reporter covering climate policy and politics at The New York Times, talks about her reporting on how EPA administrator …
10 hours ago
A Brownsville Story
Episode 2254
Abigail Savitch-Lew, a former staff reporter for City Limits and now the author of the novel Livonia Chow Mein (Simon & Schuster, 2026), talks about …
1 day, 9 hours ago
Mayor Mamdani's Lessons From Mayor La Guardia
Episode 2253
Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, recaps her event with Mayor Mamdani, where they talked about the lessons he has taken from Mayo…
1 day, 9 hours ago
Fast-Tracking Psychedelics Research
Episode 2256
Frederick S. Barrett, director of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and professor in the Neur…
1 day, 10 hours ago
Celebrating Library Workers
Episode 2255
It's National Library Week, and today we're asking library workers (and patrons) to talk about the services their libraries provide.
Photo: The Brook…
1 day, 10 hours ago
Jazz Legacies
Episode 2250
Elizabeth Alexander, president of The Mellon Foundation, poet, educator, memoirist and scholar and the author of The Trayvon Generation (Grand Centra…
2 days, 9 hours ago
$4 Billion From NYC Pension Funds Going to Affordable Housing
Episode 2249
NYC Comptroller Mark Levine talks about his plan to invest $4 billion from NYC's pension funds into affordable housing developments in the city, plus…
2 days, 9 hours ago