Ask the Mayor; How Juul Became Cool; The Eights | 1958 and the Civil Rights Commission; The Future of NYC Forests

On today's show...

• Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.

• New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino looks at the rise of vaping and whether it's the answer to all the problems associated with smoking.

• Mary Frances Berry, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, former chairwoman of the US Commission on Civil Rights, and the author of History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times (Beacon Press, 2018), talks about the founding of the first year of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.

• Sarah Charlop-Powers, executive director of the Natural Areas Conservancy, explains a comprehensive new survey of, and plan to protect, the city's forests in the face of climate change. And Marielle Anzelone, botanist and urban ecologist, calls in from her bike ride around Manhattan with a mini forest in tow.