#AskTheMayor; Withdrawing Troops From Syria; Your Resolutions; Word Of The Year

Coming up on today's show... 

• New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
• President Trump’s plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria has garnered support from both the left and right. Gil Barndollar, director of Middle East Studies at the Center for the National Interest and former infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps, lays out his case for the withdrawal. Then Glenn Greenwald, co-founding editor of The Intercept, former constitutional law and civil rights litigator and Guardian columnist, does the same from a left perspective.
•  As it comes to a close, listeners call in and share their reflections on the past year and their hopes for the new one.
• 2018 was toxic. That's what Oxford Dictionaries say, at least. Katherine Connor Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press, talks about their pick for Word of the Year, as well as the words that were highlighted in other languages around the world.