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Lead In NYC, Newark School Water; Richard Ger; Envisioning America's Second...

Mary Harris, WNYC reporter/co-host of “Only Human,” Monona Rossoal, an industrial hygienist for ACTS, and Chris Sturm, Managing Director of Policy and Water for New Jersey Future, discuss recent...

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An Evangelical Climate Scientist Wins Over Skeptics

Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and a director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. She’s also an evangelical Christian. She speaks with David Remnick about how she spends...

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How Big Data Changed Baseball

Keith Law, a former MLB statistical analyst who now writes for ESPN, joins us to discuss his new book, Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are...

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Residents Push MTA for Upgrades at Fourth Avenue Station

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Caracol Interpreters Cooperative: Bridging Language Barriers

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Allergic to Salad: Learning to Cook Healthy Food

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NYC’s First Community Garden

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Participatory Budgeting: The People’s Budget

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Episode 80: CNN’s Jeff Zucker, the Man Who Made Trump

At NBC, Jeff Zucker put Donald Trump on national TV; now he’s at CNN, and Trump seems to have it in for all the “fake news” that he claims Zucker promotes about the Administration. A reporter digs for...

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Stories Of Urban Resilience Shared By Our Audience

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Jeff Zucker, The Apprentice, and The President

While running NBC, Jeff Zucker recognized Donald Trump’s potential as a performer, and green-lit “The Apprentice.” That show brought the real-estate developer into American homes and enabled his push...

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The Most Dangerous Machine

Season 6, Episode 35This week on Freakonomics Radio: Uber is disrupting profitable sectors by using one of the world's most dangerous machines. Plus, Stephen J. Dubner learns that data from Uber's...

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Episode 81: Roger Corman’s Monsters, and a Roomful of Spies

In these three conversations from past New Yorker Festivals, some no-longer-covert agents share the truth about espionage. Roger Corman talks about creating a new template for independent movies, and...

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Spies Tell It Like It Is

Russia’s effort to undermine the 2016 U.S. election shows that covert operations are as much a danger now as they were at the height of the Cold War. The staff writer David Grann moderated a panel at...

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How Algorithms Shape Our Lives

John Cheney-Lippold, an assistant professor of American Culture and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan, joins us to discuss his book, We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital...

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Episode 82: The Sequel to “A Doll’s House,” and a President Abroad

Some have called the firing of James Comey, the F.B.I. director, a constitutional crisis; The New Yorker’s legal expert Jeffrey Toobin weighs in. Michael Anton, of the National Security Council, tries...

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Your Vote Didn't Count, and the Board Didn't Tell You in Time to Do Anything...

More than 168,000 people cast paper ballots at the polls in last fall's presidential election because their names did not appear on the voter rolls. The Board of Elections of the City of New York...

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Explaining Trump’s Foreign Policy

On May 19th, Donald Trump is scheduled to make his very first trip abroad as President; his predecessors had made multiple international visits by this time in their Presidencies. Trump has promised a...

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Jeffrey Toobin on the Comey Crisis

Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer who covers legal matters for The New Yorker, and an analyst for CNN. He is also a former federal prosecutor who worked on the Iran-Contra investigation. Toobin has...

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Podcast Extra: A Hundred Days of the Trump Presidency

Marking one hundred days of the Trump administration, David Remnick convened a group of journalists to discuss covering this presidency:  Lydia Polgreen, editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post; Eli...

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