Kevin Baker, author of the excellent new book "The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City" joins Bradley for a wide-ranging discussion on urban history and big-league folklore.
A glowing magazine profile of Jessica Tisch had some over-the-top moments, but there's no denying that New York City's sanitation commissioner is worth keeping an eye on.
Bradley is joined by Nicole Gelinas, columnist for the New York Post and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, to talk about what a comeback could look like.
Will giddy retail investors fall for late-stage start-ups with wildly inflated valuations?
The lefty weekly newspaper was once such a great business that Rupert Murdoch happily owned it and left it alone to thrive.
If RFK Jr.'s goal is to tip the election to Donald Trump, he could hardly have picked a better running mate than Nicole Shanahan.
Bradley talks to New York City Council Member Justin Brannan of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn about how assertiveness fueled his unlikely rise from hard-core bands to Wall Street to politics.
The World Happiness Report is a bummer for Americans, says Bradley, but there are practical things we can do about it.
Yes, there is a plausible scenario for the war stopping, Chinese control of social media ending and the Democrats holding off the Republicans in the fall.
Bradley talks to Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine about how to ignite the right kind of building boom.
Why did the attempt by the social media giant to mimic the 'Uber Play' — ie, politicize its user base — fail to work on Congress?
Compared to big American cities, post-pandemic New York looks pretty good.
Well, it can’t *end* that way, obviously, but if the Electoral College is deadlocked at 269 — a remote but not implausible outcome — it will set off a process that could set a new peak of Trump era mayhem.
When you do everything imaginable to improve your mental and physical health, Bradley says, you run the risk of ruining your mental and physical health. Well, not quite.
The shooting near the Super Bowl parade was just another day in America.
The relative scarcity of male readers inspired Douglas Vigliotti to start a podcast called Books for Men.
If you're wondering why Joe Biden refuses to give up on his reelection campaign, try imagining the way he sees himself — as Bradley does in this episode — and the answer becomes obvious.
How does the non-profit open-source encyclopedia withstand the corrupting forces of internet culture?
The secret to Joe Biden's unpopularity may be that we have a hard time loving any politician who's been a Vice President.
Economic pessimism persists despite the consistent run of good news. Anthony Pompliano, aka Pomp, joins Bradley to discuss what's wrong with this picture — and why the media business, in particular, is anything but doomed.
What are you supposed to do when you see a stranger mistreating someone in public?
Tina Nguyen, Puck correspondent and author of The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Journey into the Heart of the Alt-Right (and How I Got Out), joins Bradley and Cory to discuss the past, present and future of the conservative movement and why liberals get outplayed again and again.
All those mega-donor masters of the universe pouring money into Trump alternatives forgot one important thing — that it's going to take a lot more than their money to beat him. Bradley assesses the shattered dreams of DeSantis, Christie, Scott, Ramaswamy, and (coming soon!) Haley. But he's sticking with his prediction (for now) that neither Biden nor Trump will be the eventual winner. Plus, how Mayor Adams blew the budget battle before it even started.
Could the Empire State lead the way in making social media safer for kids?
With all that's going wrong in the world, argues Bradley, AI stands out for its potential to do good on a grand scale.
Chris Coffey, CEO of Tusk Strategies, joins Bradley to break down the messy chessboard of New York politics.
If early results hold up, GLP-1 drugs could take out a big bite out of vice and transform life as we know it.
Maybe we needed a buffoonish compulsive liar elected to Congress to grasp the true state of our democracy?