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Environment / April 22, 2025 The mayoral hopeful’s Green Schools plan would renovate 500 public schools, build 500 green schoolyards, and turn 50 schools into resilience hubs. Ad Policy New York City mayoral candidate and Democratic State Representative Zohran Mamdani campaigns in New York City on April 16, 2025.(Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images) Zohran Mamdani has not made climate change central to his upstart campaign to become New York City’s first democratic socialist mayor. Mamdani’s surprising success—with polls consistently showing him ahead of all candidates except Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary—is built on his pledge to make…

We look back at the relationship between Elon Musk and President Trump as Musk signals he’s easing off his White House role. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Elon Musk says he’ll pull back from his work in the Trump administration to focus on running his electric car business, Tesla. For the last few months, Musk has had massive access and power within the White House. NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben reports on the relationship that was mutually beneficial until things got complicated.DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN, BYLINE: On election night, Donald Trump gave special attention to one of his biggest supporters.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Oh,…

Politics / April 22, 2025 Films to remember for pre-Trumpian times and inspiration. Ad Policy Bradley Whittford joins the cast of The West Wing in Burbank, California, on March 8, 2016.(Amanda Edwards / WireImage via Getty Images) A few months ago, my family was making fun of me because I couldn’t stop watching The West Wing. I will say that by season eight, even my husband was by my side, trying to remember who won that final presidential election. Was it Alan Alda or Jimmy Smits? (No spoilers here!) Mostly, we could not believe how great that Aaron Sorkin series…

Lawmakers face the daunting task of crafting a sweeping plan to turn the heart of President Trump’s domestic agenda into law. It will be a crucial test for House Speaker Mike Johnson. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: When lawmakers return from recess next week, they will face the daunting task of crafting a sweeping plan to turn the heart of President Trump’s domestic agenda into law. It will be a crucial test for House Speaker Mike Johnson, who in his first 100 days this Congress faced an unrelenting wave of challenges. NPR congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales has more.CLAUDIA GRISALES, BYLINE: House Speaker…

Politics / April 22, 2025 The court’s ruling ordering Trump not to deport a group of Venezuelan immigrants was an unprecedented rebuke. Are they finally taking back power? Ad Policy Members of Donald Trump’s cabinet (L) stand and applaud as members of the Supreme Court stay seated during Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress.(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) There is an oft-used idiom in my community: “Stop playing in my face.” It can be loosely translated as “Sir, your lies mock my intelligence. Desist from these obvious falsehoods or I shall be roused to combat.” At 1 o’clock…

Russia launched a huge attack on Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 60 others in the Ukrainian capital just hours after the Trump administration again lashed out at President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and threatened to abandon peace talks.The assault was the deadliest on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, since last summer. Explosions could be heard throughout the night; clouds of brown smoke rose over the city as the sun came up.One missile hit a two-story building with eight apartments where emergency workers hunted for survivors Thursday morning. A five-story building next door lost all…

America’s neighbor to the north has seen wide ranging impacts from the tariffs on goods sent to the U.S.— from Canadian identity to the country’s politics and of course the economy. Even small businesses are feeling the change. We go to the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia to see how tariffs are playing out. Fisherman in Clark’s Harbour in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. Jackie Northam/NPR hide caption toggle caption Jackie Northam/NPR Fisherman in Clark’s Harbour in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. Jackie Northam/NPR Source link

Germany’s economy will not grow in 2025, the government said Thursday, scaling back a previous prediction as President Trump’s tariffs bite into Europe’s largest economy, leaving it stagnant for the third year in a row.In January, the German government had predicted 0.3 percent economic growth, but Mr. Trump’s tariffs of 25 percent on imported automobiles, steel and aluminum threaten to hit Germany’s export-oriented economy hard, as might the turbulence in the markets caused by the yo-yo nature of how the tariffs have been imposed.“The German economy, which is already suffering from weak foreign demand and reduced competitiveness, is particularly affected…

A look at this spring in Georgia’s Legislature show how Republicans continue filing bills to put limits on transgender people and how Democrats have tried to respond. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Each spring, for the last couple of years, state lawmakers across the country filed hundreds of bills to place restrictions on transgender people. And even as Republican-led states already passed laws on bathroom, sports, medical treatment and IDs, the bills keep coming. We’re taking a look at what happened this year in Georgia – an example that shows why the legislation continues and how Democrats there responded. WABE’s Sam Gringlas…

Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is ‘Start Making Sense.’  I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show: Trump is not the worst president when it comes to constitutional rights and civil liberties; Woodrow Wilson was worse.  Adam Hochschild explains why – starting with Wilson jailing thousands of people whose only crime was speaking out against the president.  Adam’s most recent book is American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis. But first: Harvard is taking the lead in the universities’ resistance to Trump.  Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan, will explain – in a minute.[BREAK]J.D. Vance…