Coming up on today's show:
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped out of the race this week, but there is still a large field of candidates running in the Democratic primary for the re-mapped 10th District. Elizabeth Kim, reporter who covers mayoral power for the People and Power team at Gothamist and WNYC, talks about that race and the August primary.
The majority of the New York City Council members are new and are part of a class that is the most diverse and progressive in city history. Over the next year Brian Lehrer will get to know all 51 members. This week, Councilmember Lynn Schulman talks about her priorities for District 29 which includes the neighborhoods of Rego Park, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens and Richmond Hill.
Alexandra Lange, architecture critic and the author of Meet Me By the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022), looks at the history of the shopping mall as a guide for transforming them for the future.
- The phrase 'pregnant people' bothers many people on all sides of the political spectrum. Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy at Cornell University and the author of Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Crown, 2020), explains why using it doesn't mean she never says "women," and why she thinks the phrase is both "inclusive and accurate."
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
