Coming up on today’s show:
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McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Romney: A Reckoning (Simon & Schuster, 2023), recaps the happenings at the Republican National Convention, including JD Vance’s speech, plus reflects on political violence here in the United States.
Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation, talks about the NYC Bin, the City’s first “official trash can” which will be mandated for use by residential buildings with 1-9 units in a continuing effort to deprive rats of access to garbage.
Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent at Vox and the author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America’s Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World (PublicAffairs, 2024), explores the resistance to democratic ideals that has always accompanied progress toward greater freedom and how that reactionary movement is active here and around the world.
Classical pianist Lara Downes previews a free outdoor concert in which she’ll perform a new arrangement of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” which turns 100 this year.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
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