Coming up on today's show:
- Molly Ball, national political correspondent for TIME and the author of Pelosi (Henry Holt and Co., 2020), talks about the weekend's big political news that the Democrats managed to hold on to the Senate, even with the undecided race in Georgia, and what that means for the upcoming lame duck session.
- Elon Musk considers himself to be a 'free speech absolutist,' but what happens when his ideals conflict with the business model of his latest acquisition, Twitter? Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge and host of the podcast "Decoder," and Suzanne Nossel, PEN America chief executive officer, discuss Musk's troubles at Twitter and why free speech absolutism may cause the ship to sink.
- NYC CouncilmemberMercedes Narcisse talks about her priorities for district 46, which includes Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, Gerritsen Beach, Georgetown, and parts of Marine Park, Flatlands, and Sheepshead Bay.
- Eighteen people jailed at Rikers Island have died this year, the most since 2013. Darren Mack, co-director of the Urban Justice Center's Freedom Agenda, a member-led project organizing communities impacted by incarceration, joins us to discuss the continuing crisis, the activist response and the latest on efforts to close Rikers. Plus: Lezandre Khadu, mother of Stephan Khadu, who died in custody at Rikers Island last year, remembers her son and how his death relates to the crisis at Rikers.
- To celebrate its 125-year anniversary, the Brooklyn Public Library has been sharing the titles of its 125 most borrowed books of all time. Linda Johnson, President and CEO of Brooklyn Public Library, joins us to share the top 5 most borrowed books. Listeners call in to tell us what they're reading and the books they keep coming back to.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
