Coming up on today's show:

• On Thursday, an appellate court in New York ordered the state’s congressional map to be redrawn, giving Democrats a chance to reshape the political landscape ahead of the 2024 election. Jeff Wice, adjunct professor and senior fellow at New York Law School where he directs the New York Census and Redistricting Institute, discusses the legal dispute and the political implications.
  
  
• For the first time, the FDA has approved over the counter sale of a birth control pill, called Opill. Colleen Denny, MD FACOG, director of Family Planning at NYU Brooklyn and associate professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at NYU School of Medicine, talks about the progestin-only contraceptive and the significance of a prescription-free pill.
  
  
• As this year's budget season comes to a close in New York City, Tousif Ahsan, public banking campaign organizer at the New Economy Project, and James Parrott, director of economic and fiscal policies at the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School, explain the findings of a new report that shows how holding city money in a public bank could uplift the local economy, create jobs, tackle the affordable housing crisis, and move us forward on the path for a more sustainable and economically just future.
  
  
• A psychiatrist wrote in The New York Times that her (mostly young, female) patients saw Taylor Swift as a big sister who helped them through the tough parts of life. Listeners call in to talk about whether the star's music has ever helped them (or someone they know) through hard times.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.