Daily Schedule

On today’s show: Dan Ariely tells why some things are easier to lie about than others, and what determines whether we’ll behave ethically – or not! Daily Show writer Kevin Bleyer on his humorous rewrite of the U.S. Constitution. Richard Ford discusses his latest novel, Canada. And Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains the social and economic costs of the top 1 percent of Americans controlling 40 percent of the nation’s wealth, and what our growing income inequality means for the future.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

New York Times columnist Joe Nocera sees the roots of growing inequality in the decline of unions.  Plus: your internet dating stories; NYU’s expansion; how Europe’s economic troubles...

We hunt for Patient Zeroes from all over the map.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.

On this New Sounds show, hear a world premiere recording by Dylan Mattingly written specifically for the New York-based ensemble of young musicians, Contemporaneous.  Mattingly is a composer, cellist and one of the founding co-artistic directors of the group (he’s also a pitcher for Bard College’s first ever club baseball team.)  Listen to part two of his epic and emotional poem for chamber orchestra depicting Amelia Earhart’s final flight, called “Atlas of Somewhere (On the Way to Howland Island): Islanded in a Stream of Stars.”