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#1832: Fighting The NRA, New York Style

#1832: Fighting The NRA, New York Style

The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Andrew Cuomo calls on other states to join him in fighting the NRA, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on Governor Cuomo...

#1455: “The Trans Generation”

#1455: “The Trans Generation”

Living life as a trans-gendered adult carries its own set of issues and challenges, and society seems to slowly be opening up to accommodate and even celebrate these people. But most trans adults were once growing up as a trans child who needed support. Today on the...

#1832 – Zephyr Teachout

#1832 – Zephyr Teachout

WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law Professor and Democrat in the race to become New York State's next Attorney General.

Remembering The Killing Fields

Remembering The Killing Fields

WAMC’s Alan Chartock in a 2010 encore conversation with the late Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Syndey Schanberg and actor Sam Waterston about the Killing Fields, the movie inspired by Schanberg’s coverage of the civil war in Cambodia during the 1970s. Schanberg...

#1515: Three Girls Rock It; A Woman Struggles With Her Double Life

#1515: Three Girls Rock It; A Woman Struggles With Her Double Life

On this week’s 51, members of a surf punk band say a nonprofit has given them the confidence to really rock out. And we hear from a woman who decides her double life must come to an end. Last Import, a Minneapolis surf punk trio, did not meet at a bar or college. They...

What Were Internment Camps?

What Were Internment Camps?

President Donald Trump’s promise of a border wall has divided many on both sides of the issue. This summer, the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy brought about the removal of thousands of migrant children from their parents to child detention centers across...