City Politics; Vaccines: The Latest on COVID Shots; How President Trump Has Waged 'War' on the Bureaucracy; Is Self-Help Too Self-Centered?

• Elizabeth Kim, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, talks about the latest news in the mayoral campaign. Plus, Jon Campbell, WNYC and Gothamist Albany reporter, reports on the news that longtime Manhattan Congressman Jerry Nadler will retire next year, paving the way for generational change for the coveted seat.
• Caroline Lewis, health care reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about the confusion over the availability of COVID vaccines this fall.
• Ben Smith, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, and the author of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral (Penguin Press, 2023), shares his analysis for how the president has come for civil servants, and what it might mean for the government bureaucracy in the future.
• Emma Goldberg, business features writer for The New York Times, reporting on cultural, societal and economic change, and the author of Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic (Harper, 2021), talks about her recent exploration of whether today's self-help books go too far in encouraging paying less attention to other people.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.