First Presidential Debate Preview; What's on the Ballot?; Kids & Gender Identity & Medicine; Workers & Extreme Heat

On today's show:

• The first debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump is set to take place next Thursday. Azi Paybarah, national reporter covering campaigns and breaking politics news at The Washington Post, previews the debate and how each candidate is preparing, plus more on the national political headlines.

• Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, and Jeff Coltin, Politico reporter and co-author of the New York Playbook, talk about the New York State primary, including what's on the ballot in NYC and the contested Democratic primaries in the area.

• Jack Turban, M.D., director of the Gender Psychiatry Program and assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and the author of Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity (Atria, 2024), returns to talk more about the science, the medicine and the politics surrounding gender identity in children and teens.

• Extreme heat can be dangerous for workers, both outdoors and inside. Terri Gerstein, director of the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative, former labor bureau chief in the New York State Attorney General’s Office and a deputy commissioner in the New York State Department of Labor, discusses efforts to protect workers from extreme heat, both on the federal and state levels.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.