Friday:

• Nick Taylor-Vaisey, Politico’s Ottawa bureau chief and the lead author of Canada Playbook, talks about the escalation in the trade war with Canada.
• Karen Yi, WNYC and Gothamist reporter covering homelessness and poverty, talks about the lawsuits against the Mamdani administration by a group representing minority-owned grocery stores, which argue that the city's plan to open city-owned grocery stores will hurt their businesses. Then, Walter Wuthmann, WNYC and Gothamist reporter covering public safety and the legal system, explains the details of the Mamdani administration's lawsuit to try to stop a law passed by the City Council that would give public school paraprofessionals $10K bonuses—and what it has to do with the way the city bargains with all of its public sector unions.
• Annie Lowrey, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time―and How to Fix It (Ecco, 2026), looks at the data on the amount of time Americans spend filling out paperwork and following up it to access things they are entitled to—and what could lessen the burden.
• This summer marks the 50th anniversary of The New York Times' "Metropolitan Diary" column. Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera and son of Metropolitan Diary founder, Arthur Gelb, and Ed Shanahan, editor of The New York Times' "Metropolitan Diary" column, talk about the history of the column and why it's become such an institution. Plus, listeners share their own "Metropolitan Diary" stories.