Mayor Adams in Albany; Elon Musk's Power; 100 Years of 100 Things: The 'Color Line'; Girl Scout Troop 6000

Protesters gather outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC.

On today's show:

  • Mayor Adams cancelled his weekly press conference with reporters in favor of a trip to Albany to press the legislature for the city's priorities - traditionally known as "tin cup day." Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, and Jon Campbell, Albany reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, recap what he talked about and how legislators in Albany reacted to the mayor.

  • Andrew Prokop, senior politics correspondent at Vox, talks about the "vast powers" that President Trump has given to Elon Musk, what he's doing with them and whether they will eventually hit a point where institutions and the public decide they've gone too far.

  • As our centennial series continues, Martha S. Jones, legal and cultural historian at Johns Hopkins University and the author of the forthcoming, The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir (Basic Books, 2025), shares her family's long history along America's "jagged color line" and what that's meant for her, her family and the society at large.

  • As Girl Scout Cookie season kicks off, Karen Lundgard, interim CEO of Girl Scouts of Greater New York, tells listeners about Troop 6000, a first-of-its-kind program to serve families living in temporary housing in the New York City shelter system, as well as asylum seekers in New York City, and their efforts to sell some of America's favorite sweets.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.