Ask the Mayor; NJ News; The Eights | Rise of Religious Right in 1978; Growing Up in Syria

On today's show:

• Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, discusses updates in the Harvey Weinstein case, addresses the Agents of the City emails, and takes calls from listeners on a homeless shelter issue, street vendor permits and the Rockaway Beach closure. 
• Nancy Solomon, managing editor of New Jersey Public Radio, discusses the news from New Jersey;
• Historian Jon Meacham, discusses the rise of the religious right which came into the political sphere when Evangelical Christians began to protest the right to abortion in 1978;
• Marwan Hisham, a Syrian freelance journalist who since 2014 has covered Syria, Iraq, and Turkey, and artist and writer Molly Crabapple, contributing editor for Vice, talk about their new book, Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War (One World, 2018).