A visit to the community-driven pre-parade puppet preparations.

With the death penalty back in the news, we revisit a 2016 episode that asks: what is cruel and unusual punishment?

Stories of monstrous, demonic women have been written since writing has existed.

The staff writer Jesús Rodríguez on the way in which the midterms played out in the state, the effects of gerrymandering, and how both parties have courted Latino voters.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected as the first digital native to run City Hall, and now New Yorkers have found a new way to report what’s broken in their neighborhoods: filming a short video, tagging Mayor Mamdani, and asking him to come fix it. Sometimes, it works. WNYC and Gothamist reporter Karen Yi fills in for Janae Pierre and meets Carolina Abreu, whose pitch black Bronx street got streetlights two days after her video racked up nearly 2 million views. Then NYU politics professor Joshua Tucker explains what’s behind the trend and where the limits are when a request goes from fixing a pothole to changing a policy. Got any questions, comments or story ideas? Send us a message at NYCNow@WNYC.org