Coming up on today's show: 

• #AskTheMayor: Your weekly chance to call-in and ask Mayor Bill de Blasio a question. 

• NPR White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe and Molly Ball, national political correspondent for TIME, talk about the latest national political news, including the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, policy proposals on the detention of immigrant children, and the controversial New York Times op-ed on President Trump's "amorality."

• The Independent Democratic Caucus is no more, but all former IDC members have attracted democratic opponents who fault them for their voting past and partnering with Republicans. Incumbent and former IDC member, Marisol Alcántara, makes her case for renomination in the the 31st Senate District (Far West Side/Inwood) and her opponent, Robert Jackson, makes his case to voters as well.

• For two years, Margaret Hagerman studied dozens of affluent, white families in a Midwestern community to get a sense of how the ideas of class, race, and racism, were talked about (or not). The result is her new book White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America