On today’s show:
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Alvin Bragg, Manhattan district attorney, looks back at 2023, including the year’s crime stats, and talks about his office’s recent work on mental health and more.
NYC Council Member Marjorie Velázquez (District 13, East Bronx including Throggs Neck, Pelham Parkway, Morris Park, Pelham Bay, Pelham Gardens, Schuylerville, Country Club, Locust Point, and Westchester Square, as well as parts of Allerton and Van Nest) talks about the affordable housing project she supported that many said sunk her campaign against incoming Republican council member Kristy Marmorato, and the priorities she would like to highlight as her time in the council wraps up, including on illegal cannabis shops and outdoor dining.
Masha Gessen, The New Yorker staff writer and the author of many books including Surviving Autocracy (Riverhead Books, 2020), reports after a trip to Germany on how the memory of the Holocaust complicates calls for a cease fire, support for Palestinians, and Zionism and antisemitism.
Rob Goldberg, chair of the history department at Germantown Friends School and the author of Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 70s America (Duke University Press, 2023), talks about social justice campaigns to make toys more diverse and less gendered in the 1960s and 1970s, and how those ideals and the toy industry’s response connects to what is sold today, and how kids play.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
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