Coming up on today's show:

• New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
• Julia Ioffe, correspondent for GQ, discusses what the impeachment inquiry — and the activities in Ukraine that precipitated it — mean for national security.
• Starting October 26, for the first time, New Yorkers have the option of early voting at designated polling sites in advance of the November 5th Election Day. Michael J. Ryan, executive director of the NYC Board of Elections, explains how it will work.
• On Wednesday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appeared in a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee that was supposed to be about Facebook’s Libra crypto project. Andrew Marantz, staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Viking, 2019) breaks down what really went down.
• With empty storefronts around the City, we look at the culture of shopping in person, instead of online. Today: Malls and the American Dream, with Matthew Schneier, features writer for New York Magazine and The Cut.