Daily Schedule

After 15 days of debate in congress, we take the current pulse of healthcare reform with Harper’s Magazine senior editor Luke Mitchell. Then, Peter Paul Rubens wasn't just one of the greatest artists of seventeenth-century Europe…we'll learn about how he moonlighted as a secret diplomat. Plus, curator Barbara Haskell on ...

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

State University of New York students are facing further budget cuts and possible tuition increases. SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher makes her case for why the statewide university system should be seen as an economic engine for New York. Plus, big NYC development projects may not be as easy to build ...

Soundcheck’s Critics' Week continues. In a decade when tenor Luciano Pavarotti died, the New York Phil went to North Korea and 28-year-old Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel became the director of the LA Phil, we'll hear about the highs and lows in classical music and opera. And later: Medieval soul sisters Anonymous ...

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.

Experience musical settings of texts by the great Persian poet and mystic Jalalladin Rumi on this, his death date. From the order of dervishes he founded – the Mevlevi Dervishes – to a modern setting by Philip Glass and a Rumi-inspired song by Rickie Lee Jones, we’ll hear a broad ...