Seung Min Kim, White House reporter for The Washington Post, talks about the latest national political news, including the president's comments about potentially not accepting a peaceful transition of power. Plus, the forthcoming announcement from President Trump on who he is nominating to be the next Supreme Court Justice of the United States.

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National Politics: Transition of Power, RBG's Replacement and More

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.

Ask the Mayor: New COVID Clusters, Schools and More

Listeners call in to talk about how helping their kids through remote learning has affected their careers, whether they've had to reduce their hours or even quit their jobs.

How Is Remote Learning Affecting Your Job?

When you reconcile a financial statement, you determine who owes who what, and where the money actually goes. Barbara Smith, Black feminist scholar and founder of the Combahee River Collective, explores who owes what to whom and where we go from here.

Reconciliation

Keisha Blain, University of Pittsburgh historian and president of the African American Intellectual History Society and the co-editor with Ibram X. Kendi of the forthcoming Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (One World, 2021), looks at the extent of disparities in wealth and income, health, political power and more, and the policies of both parties that have been most responsible for perpetuating those disparities.

Truth

Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) discusses balancing the risks of reopening against the risks of community spread of COVID-19. Then, Leana Wen, M.D., emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University, contributing columnist for The Washington Post, and former health commissioner of Baltimore and Asma Khalid, political correspondent for NPR, discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic, and the candidates' approaches to it, could shape the election.   This segment originally aired on the national program America, Are We Ready? on Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Is There A Liberal and Conservative Way to Fight a Pandemic?

Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program, and Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones, covering voting rights and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, talk about how the pandemic is affecting pre-existing voting problems and creating others, and take calls from listeners around the country about the voting situation in their state.   This segment originally aired on the national program America, Are We Ready? on Tuesday, September 22, 2020

How We're Voting

Colin Quinn, stand-up comedian, writer, performer and the author of Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States (St. Martin's Press, 2020), offers his distinctive observations on the crazy-quilt design of this country and the contradictions and consternations of the 50 separate, but united, states of America.

Colin Quinn's Take on the Not-So-United States

Lori Podvesker, director of disability and education policy at INCLUDEnyc, talks about the special challenges students and families in NYC's District 75, which services students with disabilities, face as the new school year begins.

(Some) Students With Disabilities Go Back to School

Ramanan Laxminarayan, economist, epidemiologist and founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has played out in India, which is on track to surpass the United States as the country with the most cases worldwide — plus in other places around world, including Israel, which recently instituted a second full lockdown.

Second Wave of COVID-19 and Lockdowns Ahead?

Amber Phillips, Washington Post political reporter and author for The 5-Minute Fix, and Errol Louis, political anchor on Spectrum News NY1, host of Inside City Hall on NY1, host of the podcast You Decide and New York Daily News columnist, discuss the latest national political news—from the Senate jockeying on RBG's replacement to the news that the Justice Department named New York City an "anarchist jurisdiction."

Tuesday Morning Politics

Jami Floyd, senior editor for race & justice and legal editor at WNYC, talks about the life and legacy of the late, legendary Supreme Court justice. 

The Life and Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Since Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death late last week, Republicans have vowed to push through her replacement before the election. Sabrina Siddiqui, national politics reporter at The Wall Street Journal and political analyst at CNN, talks about the Republicans who won't go along with it, whether it's enough to prevent it from going through and what the Democrats and Joe Biden may do if they win the presidency and the Senate in November.

The Politics of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Replacement

Listeners call in to share what Ruth Bader Ginsburg meant to them—to their lives, careers, families and relationships.

What RBG Meant to You

Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.

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