The Future of Industry City; How Do Prosecutors Decide When to Convict Cops?; How the Kennedy Campaign Used Tech and Data - a podcast by WNYC

Coming up on today's show:

Industry City has proposed a controversial rezoning of the complex to allow more offices, manufacturing and retail shops -- and City Council held a public hearing on it this week. Ben Adler, senior editor at City & State, and Karina Piser, freelance journalist, talk about what's at stake, how the local Sunset Park community feels about it and what may happen since its fate now lies with City Council.
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, and Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, talk about why so few District Attorneys choose to prosecute police officers who some say have clearly committed unlawful acts.
Jill Lepore, professor of American history at Harvard University, staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of many books, including These Truths: A History of the United States, and her latest, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (Liveright, 2020), tells the story of a late-1950s precursor to today's tech marketing companies that was used to sell products, including political candidates and raised the same questions we face today over manipulation and the use of data.
As New York City schools begin remote learning, we figured it was time for our occasional feature called Advice Roulette. Listeners, ask your fellow listeners for advice live on the radio on remote learning for your kids. Before you get to ask for advice from someone, you have to give advice to another caller.

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