The leaders' breakthrough comes after weeks of negotiations and a series of on-and-off talks. The U.S. is set to run out of money to pay its loans on June 5 if a deal is not approved by Congress.

It's here. And it's ready to serve you coffee in Greenpoint.

WNYC's David Cruz joins us with the latest on the budget.

WNYC's Culture and Arts Editor Steve Smith returns with some Memorial Day Weekend recommendations.

Each weekday, we’ll bring you three timely updates of top stories, breaking news and in-depth coverage, plus special investigations and feature-length reports.

We hear from star Ben Platt and director Michael Arden, who are both Tony nominated for 'Parade.'

We wrap up our "stuff to do around here this summer" series with a look at the big concerts celebrating Hip Hop's 50 years.

The staff writer and history professor finds time to pursue gardening passionately. She talks with David Remnick about heirloom beets, and Henry David Thoreau’s favorite apple tree.

Listeners called in if they felt like therapy wasn't for them, either because of how they were raised, what they looked like, or expectations around masculinity. 

Longterm, speculative fears of AI's ability to outsmart us are obscuring current issues.

Michael Schulman talks with Laura Jacqmin, a veteran TV writer and a Writers Guild strike captain, about the stakes of the work stoppage.

It's not about what happens to the men.

This week, things get weird in songs by The God In Hackney and Goldfeather, and a half century of dance moves from Alex Anwandter and Monsieur Perine. Plus, a Doc Watson tribute album.  

The blues singer and guitarist Ruthie Foster has worked with the Allman Brothers, Blind Boys of Alabama, and pedal steel master Robert Randolph. She plays her feel-good blues in-studio.

Composer and songwriter Yasmin Williams is a fingerstyle lap-tapping guitar player who plays/taps from above. Hear her new score to Charlie Chaplin's 'The Kid', from Brookfield Place.

Pearla, the Brooklyn-based artist Nicole Rodriguez, makes off-kilter folk-pop that mixes reality and the surreal. She and her band play weird and wonderful new songs in-studio.

Hakim’s songs can sound a little like Nick Drake fronting a psychedelic soul band from the early 70s. Nick Hakim and his band perform songs from his latest, Cometa, in-studio. 

As part of The Greene Space’s Wanderlust Wednesdays series, Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey present their performance, The Working Group. The Working Group is a meeting of an autofictional men’s group engaged in tackling the “crisis of masculinity,” with the help of a live audience. The members engage in a rigorous, detailed analysis of their behavior. Accountability is king. Self-surveillance is king. Reflection and self-critique are king. Audience participation is encouraged.

Our May selection is Lone Women by Victor LaValle.

Join science journalist Rachel E. Gross and artist Sophia Wallace, two of the foremost thinkers when it comes to the clitoris and female sexuality, for a wild ride into your own body and intimate self-knowledge. In this variety show, we’ll gently reacquaint you with the clitoris and vulva through an interactive craft activity, clit jeopardy (with edible prizes!), and an onstage debate where we’ll require your help to settle a heated question: who has done more for the clitoris, art or science?

Is it the world of culture, where artists like Sophia have worked to elevate the clitoris as an icon of empowered sexuality and wholeness? Or is it the realm of science, where researchers like the ones Rachel reports on have been filling in medicine’s hazy map of the clitoris, nerve fiber by painstaking nerve fiber? Wallace and Gross will embody the muses of Art and Science, respectively, to finally set the record straight.

Have a clitoris? Know someone who does? Care about your own pleasure, reproductive rights, sexual health, or the right to bodily autonomy? Then this show is for you!

Join drag performance artist and violinist Thorgy Thor for a celebration as we kick-off Pride Month!