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On today’s show: Brooklyn high school guidance counselor Joshua Steckel talks about what happened to some of his students once they achieved their dream of going to college. Then, we’ll find out about the remarkable architectural work by Rafael Guastavino and his son, and where to find it around New York. Andrew Pettegree talks about the invention of the news—from before the printing press was invented to the Internet Age. Journalist Thierry Cruvellier on the 2005 trial of the Khmer Rouge’s chief prison official.

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

Since Russia annexed Crimea, relations with the U.S. are...strained. Angela Stent, Georgetown professor and fellow at the Brookings Institution, looks at the U.S.-Russia relationship as it stands now. Plus: New York State Senator Diane Savino talks about the state's budget negotiations and her support for legalized medical marijuana; reports of prisoner abuse and a high proportion of mentally ill inmates at the jail on Rikers Island; a Lutheran pastor on his work to establish a Palestinian community in Bethlehem; and reactions to a just-released internal review of the Bridgegate scandal that was conducted by Governor Christie's lawyers. 

The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

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.

In this episode: Soundcheck continues our decade-by-decade look back at the highlights of New York music in the past 100 years with the music of the 1970's.

Then: Hear songwriter Dawn Landes and her band perform songs from her latest album, Bluebird, in the Soundcheck studio.

And: John Carter Cash, the son of Johnny Cash and June Carter, talks about his father's "lost” record, Out Among The Stars. Recorded in the early ‘80s, it was shelved as Johnny Cash was in the process of being dropped from Columbia. Now, it's finally seeing the light of day.

Listen to electro-acoustic chamber music from the likes of Tim Hecker, Matmos, and Sylvain Chaveau on this New Sounds. Hear techno chamber music from the now Baltimore-based Matmos, and their recent "The Marriage of True Minds," which has parapsychology as its theme.  The duo builds grooves out of unusual and startling sound sources, like the processed sound of a tap dancer shuffling on a stone floor, an amplified rubber band, bagpipes, and honky tonk piano, along with vocalists.