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Taking the Trump Administration to Court

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2025/02/07

Stephen Vladeck, professor of federal courts at Georgetown University Law Center, talks about some of the legal challenges to early actions by the Trump administration.

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Restaurant Industry Anxiety Over ICE Raids

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2025/02/07

Chris Crowley, senior writer at Grub Street, talks about his reporting on the fears among local restaurant workers over potential ICE raids.

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Thursday Morning Politics: Democrats Respond; What is...

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2025/02/06

Loading... Coming up on today's show: Shane Goldmacher, national political correspondent for The New York Times covering the major developments, trends and forces shaping American politics, talks about the Democrats' ability to respond to the barrage of action by the new Trump administration and the national party's new leadership. News outlets are reporting that NYU Langone is cancelling some appointments for gender-affirming care for transgender children -- and that other hospital systems

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How Trump's Changes to Data at Federal Agencies Will...

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2025/02/06

Federal agencies like the CDC, NIH and the FDA had to remove and alter some data from their websites to comply with executive orders issued by President Trump. Katelyn Jetelina, founder and author of the newsletter "Your Local Epidemiologist," explains why data is "gold," and how these changes may affect our health.

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Thursday Morning Politics: Democrats Respond

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2025/02/06

Shane Goldmacher, national political correspondent for The New York Times covering the major developments, trends and forces shaping American politics, talks about the Democrats' ability to respond to the barrage of action by the new Trump administration and the national party's new leadership.

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Adam Gopnik's Insomnia

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2025/02/06

Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery (Liveright, 2023), discusses a recent essay in which he describes his long battle with insomnia.→ What an Insomniac Knows | The New Yorker

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What is Going on With Gender-Affirming Care in NYC?

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2025/02/06

News outlets are reporting that NYU Langone is cancelling some appointments for gender-affirming care for transgender children -- and that other hospital systems have removed mentions of gender-affirming care from their websites after President Trump issued a related executive order. Caroline Lewis, health care reporter for WNYC/Gothamist, reports on how trans kids and their families are reacting and the New York attorney general's warning to hospital systems that not providing the care would run

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Mayor Adams in Albany; Elon Musk's Power; 100 Years...

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2025/02/05

Loading... On today's show: Mayor Adams cancelled his weekly press conference with reporters in favor of a trip to Albany to press the legislature for the city's priorities - traditionally known as "tin cup day." Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, and Jon Campbell, Albany reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, recap what he talked about and how legislators in Albany reacted to the mayor. Andrew Prokop, senior politics correspondent at Vox, talks about the "vast powers" that President Trump

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It's Girl Scout Cookie Season for Troop 6000

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2025/02/05

As Girl Scout Cookie season kicks off, Karen Lundgard, interim CEO of Girl Scouts of Greater New York, tells listeners about Troop 6000, a first-of-its-kind program to serve families living in temporary housing in the New York City shelter system, as well as asylum seekers in New York City, and their efforts to sell some of America's favorite sweets.

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100 Years of 100 Things: The 'Color Line'

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2025/02/05

As our centennial series continues, Martha S. Jones, legal and cultural historian at Johns Hopkins University and the author of the forthcoming, The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir (Basic Books, 2025), shares her family's long history along America's "jagged color line" and what that's meant for her, her family and the society at large.

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How Far Will President Trump and Elon Musk Go?

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2025/02/05

Andrew Prokop, senior politics correspondent at Vox, talks about the "vast powers" that President Trump has given to Elon Musk, what he's doing with them and what's underpinning the effort overhaul of the federal bureaucracy.

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Mayor Adams Goes to Albany for 'Tin Cup Day'

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2025/02/05

Mayor Adams cancelled his weekly press conference with reporters in favor of a trip to Albany to press the legislature for the city's priorities—traditionally known as "tin cup day." WNYC and Gothamist reporters Elizabeth Kim and Jon Campbell recap what he talked about and how legislators in Albany reacted to the mayor.

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Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries; Musk Dismantles...

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2025/02/04

Loading... On today's show: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn) explains what he is calling for Democrats to do in response to President Trump's moves on federal funding, tariffs and more. As the U.S. Agency for International Development faces a shutdown from the Trump administration, Elissa Miolene, reporter covering the USAID and the U.S. government at Devex, an independent news organization covering global development, explains what the agency does, who might be

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100 Years of 100 Things: Housing Inequality

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2025/02/04

As our centennial series continues, Bernadette Atuahene, property rights scholar, professor at USC's Gould School of Law and leader of the grassroots Coalition for Property Tax Justice and Black Homes Matter campaigns, and the author of Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America (Little, Brown, 2025), explains the long history of inequality in property tax burdens rooted in redlining.

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Call Your Senator: Sen. Gillibrand on Trump 2.0

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2025/02/04

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D NY) responds to the actions of the Trump administration so far, when and how Democratic in the Senate can push back, and other matters affecting New Yorkers and the country.

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Leader Jeffries Responds to President Trump's Moves

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2025/02/04

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn) talks about his 10-point plan and explains what he is calling for Democrats to do in response to President Trump's moves on federal funding and more.

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Future of USAID Under Trump

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2025/02/04

As the U.S. Agency for International Development faces a shutdown from the Trump administration, Elissa Miolene, reporter covering the USAID and the U.S. government at Devex, an independent news organization covering global development, explains what the agency does, who might be impacted and why the agency is being targeted.

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Monday Morning Politics; The State of Crime in the...

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2025/02/03

Loading... On today's show: Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent for USA Today, talks about the news from Washington as the second Trump administration begins its third week. Elizabeth Glazer, founder of the journal Vital City and former director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, discusses a report that looks at the data that illuminate surprising trends in crime in New York City, and what it says about public safety and justice right now. The collision between a

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Chasing Away Winter Blues

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2025/02/03

Following Groundhog Day, listeners call in to share how they beat back the winter blues and what sort of rituals they have this time of the year when it's so cold and grey, and Hannah Docter-Loeb, homepage editor for Slate and a freelance writer, shares her tip -- to spend one Saturday eating ice cream for breakfast.

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How Preventable was the DC Air Crash?

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2025/02/03

The collision between a passenger jet and Army Blackhawk Helicopter resulted in the worst aviation tragedy in the United States in decades. Oriana Pawlyk, POLITICO’s aviation reporter, and Jeff Wise, aviation journalist and host of the Finding MH370 podcast, share their reporting on the incident, the issues surrounding air traffic controllers, and whether or not this tragedy could have been prevented.

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