Turkey, Syria and the Trump Administration; Almost Time to Vote: When and On Where; Breast Cancer in America; Rent Overcharge Backlog

4 segments
sign inside a NYC polling place

Coming up on today's show:

  • Ishaan Tharoor, foreign affairs writer for The Washington Post, talks about the rising tensions in the Middle East as Turkey weighs potentially invading Syria.
  • Gail Benjamin, chair of the 2019 NYC Charter Revision Commission, former director of the New York City Council Land Use Division, and Jarret Berg, New York attorney and voting rights advocate, co-founder of VoteEarlyNY, former New York State voter protection director and executive director of the New York Democratic Lawyers council, talk about New York's new early voting, in which you don't have to wait until November to cast your ballot on the proposed charter revisions. Gail Benjamin explains the five proposals and Jarret Berg explains how to vote early.
  • Kate Pickert, journalism professor at Loyola Marymount University, former staff writer for Time Magazine, and the author of Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America (Little, Brown Spark, 2019), shares her survival story and reports on the scientific advances and the sometimes-lagging popular understanding of breast cancer.
  • Josefa Velasquez, senior reporter for The City, and Aaron Carr, founder and executive director of the Housing Rights Initiative, talk about the backlog at the Division of Housing & Community Renewal in investigating rent overcharge claims, only worse since the new rent reform laws were passed.