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30 Issues in 30 Days: Criminal Justice Reform

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2025/10/09

Michael Tannousis, assemblymember representing District 64, including southern Brooklyn and the east shore of Staten Island, and Insha Rahman, vice president of advocacy and partnerships at the Vera Institute of Justice and the director of Vera Action, cover what each New York City mayoral hopeful is proposing when it comes to criminal justice reform, including the 2019 bail reform law signed by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo, plus Zohran Mamdani's and Curtis Sliwa's policy proposals.

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Do You Need an AI 'Friend?'

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2025/10/09

Ryan Kailath, WNYC/Gothamist arts and culture reporter, talks about his reporting on the AI company called Friend, and their ads, which have been defaced throughout the subway system.

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Thursday Morning Politics: Cease-Fire Deal;...

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2025/10/09

Jonathan Lemire, co-host of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, contributing writer at The Atlantic and author of the book, The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 (Flatiron Books, 2022) talks about what he calls the "project 2025 shutdown" and more national political news.

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New Jersey Gubernatorial Debate Recap

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2025/10/09

Nancy Solomon, host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, recaps the final governor's debate between Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli.

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NJ Sen. Cory Booker; City Politics: State of the...

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2025/10/08

Loading... On today's show: U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D, NJ) talks about the ongoing shutdown and the funding cuts to the Gateway Tunnel. WNYC and Gothamist reporter Elizabeth Kim and Brigid Bergin, WNYC and Gothamist senior political correspondent, talk about the latest news in the mayoral campaign, plus, Brigid shares her reporting on the many new voters who went to the polls in the June primary. Nicole Gelinas, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City

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The Best Places to Bike Outside the City

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2025/10/08

After yesterday's conversation on the show about rail trails, listeners call in to share their favorite places to bike outside the city, whether a rail or other kind of trail, parks, roads, or neighborhoods that are friendly to bikers.

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Shutdown Politics with Senator Booker

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2025/10/08

U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D, NJ), talks about the ongoing shutdown, funding cuts to the Gateway Tunnel and the cost of healthcare.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: E-Bike Safety & Regulation

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2025/10/08

Nicole Gelinas, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, a columnist at the New York Post and the author of the book, Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car (Fordham Univ Press, 2024), and Ligia Guallpa, executive director of Worker's Justice Project and co-founder of Los Deliveristas Unidos, cover what each New York City mayoral hopeful is proposing to regulate delivery apps and e-bike/scooter/moped licensing.

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City Politics: State of the Race; New Voters

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2025/10/08

WNYC and Gothamist reporter Elizabeth Kim and Brigid Bergin, WNYC and Gothamist senior political correspondent, talk about the latest news in the mayoral campaign, plus, Brigid shares her reporting on the many new voters who went to the polls in the June primary.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: New York City Schools; Immunity...

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2025/10/07

Loading... Coming up on today's show: Alex Zimmerman, reporter at Chalkbeat New York, talks about his breadth of reporting on the New York City mayoral candidates' proposals regarding the New York City public school system, including Zohran Mamdani's proposal to end mayoral control of the city’s schools and Andrew Cuomo's proposal to replace the city’s lowest-performing schools with charters or other models. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to three scientists for their

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30 Issues in 30 Days: New York City Schools

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2025/10/07

Alex Zimmerman, reporter at Chalkbeat New York, talks about his breadth of reporting on the New York City mayoral candidates' proposals regarding the New York City public school system, including Zohran Mamdani's proposal to end mayoral control of the city’s schools and Andrew Cuomo's proposal to replace the city’s lowest-performing schools with charters or other models.

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From Railroad to Rail-Trail

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2025/10/07

Peter Harnik, co-founder of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land and executive producer of the documentary From Rails to Trails, talks about his work spearheading the movement to convert abandoned railbeds into multi-use trails, 26,000 miles so far, and the new documentary about it.

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The Nobel Prize for Understanding Autoimmune Disease

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2025/10/07

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to three scientists for their work in immunology. Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD, chief of infectious disease for Island Infectious Diseases, the largest physician-owned Infectious Disease Specialist Group on Long Island, an infectious disease specialist and clinical instructor of medicine at Columbia University and president of Parasites Without Borders and co-host of the podcast "This Week in Virology", explains their breakthrough and what it means

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30 Issues in 30 Days: NYC Government's Impact on the...

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2025/10/06

Loading... Coming up on today's show: In this installment of our election year series, a look into what the candidates — especially former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani — might do as mayor to influence the Israeli-Palestinian conflict one way or another. Jim Walden, former federal prosecutor who ran as an independent in the NYC mayor's race, first explains his support for Cuomo, who signed an executive order as governor barring the state from doing business with any

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30 Issues in 30 Days: NYC Government's Impact on the...

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2025/10/06

In this installment of our election year series, a look into what the candidates -- especially former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani -- might do as mayor to influence the Israeli-Palestinian conflict one way or another. Jim Walden, a former federal prosecutor who ran as an independent in the NYC mayor's race, first explains his support for Cuomo, who signed an executive order as governor barring the state from doing business with any organization that participated in the BDS

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The Children Who've Died Waiting for USAID Medications

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2025/10/06

Meg Kelly, senior reporter for The Washington Post's Visual Forensics team, discusses her team's reporting on the Trump administration's USAID funding pause, which resulted in the deaths of children from curable diseases around the world.

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Your Family's 'Secret Language' Part Two

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2025/10/06

A Washington Post article explained how most families have a secret language that only they understand, or a "familect" as some linguists call it. Listeners call in to share the words in their family that only they use, which are often conjured in the minds of small children and then used for years down the road.

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President Trump's National Guard Plans

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2025/10/06

Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, talks about President Trump's attempts to send National Guard troops into Portland Chicago, how states are reacting and why a federal judge keeps blocking the plan for Portland.

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Brian Lehrer Weekend: Princeton President;...

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2025/10/04

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Christopher Eisgruber, president of Princeton University, talks about issues of free speech (First) | A 30 Issues in 30 Days debate about involuntary hospitalization of New Yorkers with severe and untreated mental illnesses (Starts at 29:48) | Your favored (and least favored) seasons (Starts at 1:17:46)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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As Goes New Jersey?; 30 Issues in 30 Days: New Jersey...

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2025/10/03

Loading...Coming up on today's show: Russell Berman, a staff writer at The Atlantic talks about the New Jersey governor's race and its national bellwether status, plus the latest shutdown news. Larry Higgs, commuting and transport reporter at NJ Advance Media talks about the state of NJ Transit and where the candidates stand on tolls, construction of new transit projects, congestion pricing and more. Giulia Heyward, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, talks about how New York officials are dealing

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