Mayor Adams Goes to Albany; The 'Meme-ification' of Politics; Kwame Alexander; Ending Therapy

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On today’s show:

    After a stinging political defeat since the City Council overrode his vetoes on two bills, Mayor Adams is traveling to Albany to ask the state legislature to consider his priorities. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, shares insight and analysis of what’s happening within the Adams administration.
    Clare Malone, staff writer at The New Yorker covering politics, discusses how the internet, and meme culture, is continuing to having an influence on politics ahead of the 2024 election.
    Kwame Alexander, poet and NPR contributor, author of Why Fathers Cry at Night and editor of This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (Little, Brown and Company, 2024), talks about the inspiration for, and from, the works collected in his new book.
    Over the past few years, the trend in society has been to encourage most people to enter therapy. Richard Alan Friedman, M.D., professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, explains why many patients may actually benefit from quitting therapy, and listeners share how they knew it was time to end treatment.

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