Age & Politics; Climate Week Kicks Off; The Pandemic 'Time Warp'; Is It Ever Ok to 'Irish Exit' a Party?

On today's show:

• Sen. Mitt Romney announced he won't run for reelection, citing his age, and urged other older politicians to do the same. Christina Greer, Moynihan Public Scholars Fellow at City College, CUNY, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, host of the podcasts FAQNYC and The Blackest Questions and the author of Black Ethnics (Oxford University Press, 2013), talks about how age figures into President Biden's campaign (and Trump's for that matter), and how Vice President Harris fits into the discussion.
• In honor of Climate Week, Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now and environment correspondent for The Nation magazine, talks about related events in the City, including Sunday's climate march, plus introduces his group's journalism awards, which honor the best climate journalists and their work. Plus: Amy Westervelt, climate journalist and the executive editor of Drilled, a multimedia climate accountability reporting project and one of Covering Climate Now's climate journalists of the year, talks about her work and how it fits into climate coverage.
• Katy Schneider, features editor at New York Magazine, reflects on "the pandemic skip," which she describes in a recent essay in The Cut as "the strange sensation that our bodies might be a step out of sync with our minds."
• In a recent article for Slate, Fortesa Latifi, journalist based in Los Angeles, California, extolled the virtues of the "Irish Exit" — that's leaving a party without saying goodbye. Fortesa shares her story and listeners call in to share what side of the debate they fall on.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.