Podcast Episodes

Assessing the First 100 Days of Trump 2.0

Episode 1253

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and the host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, offers his assessment of the first 100 days of President Trump's second term, and the opposition that is beginning t…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

NYC Health Department Braces for Federal Budget Cuts

Episode 1254

Michelle Morse, M.D., interim commissioner of health at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and an internal medicine and public health doctor, talks about the areas where the health depar…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Music & History from the Navy Yard

Episode 1256

Jad Abumrad, composer, musician and storyteller, creator of WNYC's Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America, and More Perfect, a professor of research at Vanderbilt University, and the co-composer and libret…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

New York State Has a Budget Deal

Episode 1257

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a tentative budget agreement almost one month late. Jon Campbell, Albany reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, reports on where the big policy issues landed, inclu…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump Weighs in on Native American Mascots

Episode 1252

President Donald Trump recently asked U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to intervene in defense of the Massapequa school district, saying the school should be able to their use of Native Amer…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

100 Years of 100 Things: Immigrant Detention

Episode 1251

As our centennial series continues, Ana Raquel Minian, associate professor of history at Stanford and the author of In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the Unite…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Call Your Senator: Sen. Andy Kim on Democracy, Tariffs, Ukraine and More

Episode 1250

Andy Kim, U.S. Senator (D NJ), talks about his work in the Senate and the issues in New Jersey. Topics this week include the state of Democracy in the buildup to the midterm elections, tariffs and ce…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Brian Lehrer Weekend: Janno Lieber; Goodbye Regulations; Street Photography

Episode 1249

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

MTA Chair Janno Lieber on Congestion Pricing, Penn Station and More (First) | Goodbye to Federal Regulations (Starts at 39:00) | …

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Your Career Pivots

Episode 1247

Listeners share stories of navigating career pivots at moments when they felt their college degree took them as far as it could go.

Support of WNYC’s coverage of economic mobility and opportunity is p…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Catching Up on Project 2025

Episode 1246

David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic and an author of the Atlantic daily newsletter, plus author of The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2025), loo…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago