Roe 50 Years Later; Behind the Shoplifting Wave; Clinton and Giuliani; Lunar New Year Traditions

Coming up on today's show: 

• Shefali Luthra, a healthcare reporter at the 19th, discusses new FDA rules allowing pharmacies to distribute abortion pills, how Republicans are responding to underground pill movements, and how abortion access has changed in the 50 years since the Roe v. Wade decision.
  
  
• James D. Walsh, staff writer at New York Magazine’s Intelligencer, discusses his in-depth reporting on the complexities of the rise retail thefts.
  
  
• The year 1993 saw the inauguration of a Democratic U.S. president and a Republican mayor of New York. In this series we explore the elections and policies of Pres. Clinton and Mayor Giuliani and their impact on the world in 2023. Today, Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics, New York Times columnist, distinguished professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and the author of (now in paperback) Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), discusses globalism and the passage of NAFTA, and Greg David, contributor covering fiscal and economic issues for THE CITY and director of the business and economics reporting program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and the author of Modern New York: The Life and Economics of a City (St. Martin's Press, 2012), looks at the role of the City's economy in the 1993 mayoral campaign.

• In celebration of the Lunar New Year, Nancy Yao, President of the Museum of Chinese in America, joins for a discussion on the holiday's traditions.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.