Parsing Pence; Back from North Korea; Affordable Housing Crisis Ideas; Heroes and Villains of History; Fall Culture Moment: Dance

Coming up on today's show:

• Jane Mayer, staff writer for The New Yorker and the author Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (Doubleday, 2016), looks into Vice President Pence’s influence on the president, including the V.P.’s ties to the Koch brothers.
•  Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and the co-author of A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (Vintage, 2015), reports on his recent visit to North Korea and other news.
• Throughout October in our People's Guide to Power: Real Estate Edition series, we've been exploring all the ways the city has tried - and is still trying - to solve the affordable housing crisis. WNYC reporter Jessica Gould talks about some ideas of how to solve it that are so crazy they just might work.
• Ron Chernow, author of Alexander Hamilton and his new biography Grant (Penguin Press, 2017), talks about Ulysses S. Grant and how to recognize history's heroes while acknowledging their flaws.
• WNYC dance critic Marina Harss previews some dance performance picks for the fall season.