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On today's show, the scholar of authoritarianism and Applebaum on how the U.S. is becoming more like Victor Orban's hungry by design.

What Trump's climb down from some of his tariffs in anti-federal reserve language yesterday,

does to fit into the larger democracy versus authoritarianism struggle, if anything,

and what Ann Applebound thinks can be done for democracy preservation and Applebaum coming up.

And we'll continue our series on being upwardly mobile without a college degree. We'll

invite more of your stories. But we'll start locally on the New York City mayoral race. Our lead

city hall reporter, Elizabeth Kim is here as usual on Wednesdays for remember what used to be her

weekly check-in after Mayor Adams' Tuesday news conferences. Those are still happening and we'll play a clip,

but we've started broadening the scope of these segments to meet the moment as it is in the city,

as it actually is right now, with a multi-candidate Democratic primary coming soon to be followed

by a possible five-way race in the general election in which anything could happen.

A working families party, as opposed to a Democratic Party candidate could be elected.

The Republican candidate, Curtis Slewa, could be elected in a five-way race.

So what are New Yorkers want for the city the next four years?

That is squarely on the table and squarely what we will be

mostly talking about, I think, these coming Wednesdays now with Liz. Her latest article

on Gothamist is about the competition between two of the progressive candidates in the Democratic

primary in particular, the city controller, Brad Lander, and the state senator from Queens, or on Mamdani.

Hi, Liz. Happy Wednesday, Brian.

There are many candidates in the Democratic primary. Why did you write an article specifically about Momdani and Lander?

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