The Latest Battle Over the Fate of the ACA; Meet the Likely New Speaker; Why Employers Are Ghosting; 2025's Word(s) of the Year

Coming up on today's show:

• Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent, KFF Health News and host of the What the Health? podcast, discusses the latest over the battle in Congress over the fate of the Affordable Care Act.
• City Councilmember Julie Menin (D-5, Upper East Side: Lenox Hill, Yorkville, Carnegie Hill and Roosevelt Island) talks about her priorities for City Council as she is about to take over as speaker, and how she foresees her relationship with the incoming Mamdani administration will be.
• Franklin Schneider, writer based in New York City, discusses his recent piece in The Atlantic on "employer ghosting" in the job market and how employees are pushing back.
• "Rage bait." "Parasocial." "6-7." Ben Zimmer, linguist, language columnist, and chair of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, discusses what the words of the year chosen by various dictionaries like Oxford and Dictionary.com, and what the choices say about our language and culture.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.