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Back to SearchSummer Culture Calendar: SummerStage & Celebrate Brooklyn!
Episode 1303
Catch up with the summer cultural calendar with this pledge-drive miniseries. Today, Ryan Kailath, WNYC/Gothamist arts and culture reporter, runs through the highlights from the annual SummerStage an…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
100 Years of 100 Things: The NYC Skyline
Episode 1302
As our centennial series continues, Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times and the author of The Intimate City: Walking New York (Penguin Press, 2022), talks about the major ch…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
What the Film & TV Industry Thinks of Pres. Trump's Tariff Announcement
Episode 1298
Last week, President Trump declared on Truth Social that he would place a 100% tariff on movies made outside the United States. Listeners who work in the film and TV industry call in to share what th…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
The Facts (and Myths) of Water Fluoridation
Episode 1297
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending fluoridation nationwide. Jessica Steier, DRPH, PMP, CEO of Un…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
NJ's Democratic Candidates for Governor Speak
Episode 1295
Michael Hill, WNYC Morning Edition host and Briana Vannozzi, anchor for NJ Spotlight News, recap and offer analysis of a conversation between New Jersey's Democratic candidates for governor.
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
The NYPD Gang Database
Episode 1296
Civil rights groups in New York City have filed a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's gang database, which these groups call discriminatory. Meanwhile, City Council and the Adams administration have clash…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
300 Years of Critiquing Capitalism
Episode 1293
John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI (Macmillan, 2025), traces the last three hundred years of gl…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
SCOTUS End of Term Preview
Episode 1294
Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law, previews the end of the Supreme Court term, plus remembers the late Justice Souter.
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
100 Years of 100 Things: Yogi Berra
Episode 1292
As our centennial series continues, listeners share memories of Yankee great Yogi Berra, who also played for and managed the Mets (about whom he said, "It ain't over 'til it's over").
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
Charter Revision Ideas
Episode 1291
Richard Buery, CEO of Robin Hood and chair of the Charter Revision Commission convened by Mayor Adams, talks about the commission's preliminary report, including a possible change to NYC's primary el…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago