Mayor Adams' Legacy; A 'School Choice' Advocate's 180 on Testing and Charter Schools; No Cash, How Tap-to-Pay's Ubiquity is Hurting New Yorkers

Coming up on today's show:

• Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, Ben Max, host of the Max Politics podcast and program director at New York Law School’s Center for New York City Law, and Jeffery Mays, New York Times metro politics reporter, weigh in on Mayor Adams' term in office and what he accomplished, where he fell short of his goals, and how history might view his mayoralty.
• Diane Ravitch, historian of education and former research professor of education at New York University, blogger at dianeravitch.net and author of An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else (Columbia University Press, 2025), talks about why she went from being an influential advocate for school choice and standardized testing, to now supporting public schools and opposing testing.
• Anna Kodé, reporter covering design and culture for the Real Estate section of The New York Times, talks about the people left behind by our current "Tap-to-Pay society," and why they might still prefer to carry cash while out and about in New York City.