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Together At Last

After a long and sometimes bitter primary season, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are making their first joint campaign appearance in the general election today. Despite the symbolic choice of venue -- Unity, NH -- the party still has healing ahead. Joining us to review the campaign appearance are Josh Rogers, reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio, and Rebecca Traister, staff writer at Salon.

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New City Budget

WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly was up all night analyzing the details of the city budget. He lets us know what he discovered.

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The National Happiness Index

Bhutan, the landlocked kingdom on the Himalayas, began an innovative measure of its people's well-being: an index known as the Gross National Happiness. But how is happiness best measured? As Bhutan is featured in this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival, we ask Kinley Dorji, Editor-In-Chief of Kuensel (Bhutan's first newspaper), and Preston T. Scott, a curator of the Festival program Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon.

Smithsonian Folklife Festival

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Bronx Gets Tested

More people die from AIDS in the Bronx than in any other New York borough. That's one of the reasons why the New York Health Department is announcing an initiative to get all Bronx adults tested within the next three years. Candia Richards Clarke from Bronx AIDS Services explains the plan.

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Follow-Up Friday: Blackberry Overtime Blues

Earlier this week we spoke to Maggie Jackson about her book Distracted, which knocks multitasking. Then we learned about a squabble between ABC News and the Writers Guild of America East over whether employees should be paid for time spent on their Blackberrys outside of work hours. Penelope Trunk, who writes the Brazen Careerist blog, joins us to look at whether handheld email machines are a perk or a pain.

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Open Phones: Summer Vacation

City schools out for summer! That's what most New York students are cheering today, so are you prepared? Tell us what your plans are!

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