Monday Morning Politics; Rent Hikes Loom For Millions of NYC Tenants; How Alito Turned 'Feminism Against Itself'; Best Advice From Mom

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Aug. 24, 2021. House Members were recalled to Washington amid ongoing negotiations over the $3.5 trillion budget blueprint.
Coming up on today's show:
  • U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn and Queens), House Democrats chairman, talks about the work of the special master in redrawing New York's district maps and the Democrats' outlook for the midterms, plus other national and local news.
  • The New York City Rent Guidelines Board backed rent increases that, if enacted, could amount to the largest hikes in nearly a decade. Mihir Zaveri, reporter covering housing on The New York Times Metro desk, reports that these increases fall short of landlords' demands but leave tenants fearful of what's to come.
  • Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution  and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), digs into the legal arguments in Justice Alito's draft opinion that would overturn Roe v Wade.
  • On the day after Mother's Day, listeners call in to share the best advice they ever got from their mom (or mother figure), and if they are a mom (or mother figure), share the advice they have given to their children.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.