This week, New York State primary voters head to the polls and will weigh in on who will stand for election to the U.S. House of Representatives in the most consequential of bi-annual federal election perhaps since the Civil War. While the Empire State's delegation is lopsided toward the Democratic Party, with the control of the House hanging by a tiny margin, the results are truly consequential both for the two political parties and the nation as a whole.
In this episode of We Decide, Jenna speaks with former Nation editor Don Guttesplan and City & State Op-Ed editor Peter Sterne about Mayor Zohran Mamdani's decision to support candidates challenging two House incumbents being supported by House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn). As the city's first declared Democratic Socialist Mayor, Mamdani is betting heavily that his popularity is transferable.
Throughout the country, Democratic Party turnout in similar primary contests has been very strong, leading party stalwarts optimistic about their prospects in the fall, despite what appears to be what they say is the Trump administration's bid to suppress turnout.
In the our A Block, we look at the progress being made in peace negotiations between the US and Iran as the two sides continue to hammer out the finer points of the deal at a resort in Switzerland after signing a memorandum of understanding last week.
Can the deal end the US and Israel’s war on Iran, despite Israel refusing to pull their soldiers out of Lebanon and Iranian officials saying any attacks on Hezbollah in that country will kill the deal? We ask our We Decide political panel Egberto Willes, host of KPFT's Politics Done Right, Laura Jedeed, a writer at FirewalledMedia.com and an Army veteran of two tours in the War in Afghanistan, and David Levinthal, Washington DC correspondent and senior Editor at NOTUS.
In the B Block, we spoke with economist Dr. William Darity Jr. the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy about what Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire says about the state of the global economy. We’ll also look at Dr. Darity’s scholarship on the hidden costs of being black in America. We discuss the role Musk played in Trump's unprecedented attack on the federal civil service and the union movement which historically provided a path to the middle class particularly for Black Americans,
In the D Block, we listened back to We Decide media editor Jesse Lent’s conversation with Janine di Giovanni, the former Senior Foreign Correspondent for the Times of London and executive director of The Reckoning Project, a transnational war crimes documentation initiative she co-founded in 2022 about why war crimes appear to be on the rise worldwide.
