Monday Morning Politics; How to Compost in NYC (Now That It's Required); 100 Years of 100 Things: Greenwich Village; Baseball's Back in New York City

• Jim Newell, Slate's senior politics writer, breaks down the latest national politics headlines from over the weekend.

• Everyone in NYC is supposed to be composting already, but starting Tuesday, the city will start issuing fines to property owners for violations. Liam Quigley, reporter covering parks & sanitation for Gothamist and WNYC, shares how compliance is going so far (spoiler alert: not well!) and explains how to compost according to the city's rules.

• As our centennial series continues, John Strausbaugh, author of The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village  (Ecco, 2013) and most recently, The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned (PublicAffairs (2024), takes us through the rich history of Greenwich Village.
  
  
• Both the Mets and Yankees have had their first few games of Major League Baseball's 2025 season. Deesha Thosar, MLB writer for Fox Sports who covers the Mets and Yankees, recaps what happened on the off season, and how New York's teams are doing so far.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.