Welcome back to the Ten Blocks Podcast. This is your host, Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Before we get started, I want to tell listeners that our new autumn 2018 issue is hot off the press.

You can check out the full table of contents on our website, but for starters, we have Kay Heimowitz,

with a history of women's advocacy in America.

This is already available online. John Tierney on the prescription drug debate,

economist Edward Glazer with policy proposals to get the long-term unemployed in the Rust Belt

back to work, and Nicole Gillinus on the growth of non-bank lending and the mounting risk that entails.

Then we have articles on the homeless problem in Seattle, Miami's innovative program for diverting

the mentally ill from jail and lots, lots more. We'll be recording podcasts on 10 blocks with some of

these authors, so stay tuned for all that in the coming weeks.

But we're here today to talk with my colleague Seth Barron about the city and state that many

of us here at City Journal Call Home, New York. Listeners outside New York might not know this,

but Republicans, with the help of moderate Democrats,

have held a narrow majority in the state Senate.

That looks set to change with the upcoming election, and the implications for policy could be

enormous in New York.

So we'll talk with our associate editor, Seth Barron, after this. Seth, thanks for joining us.

Thanks, Brian. I'm glad to be here.

The elections are coming up, and Democrats do seem poised to take over full control of state

government. So can you give a breakdown for our non-New York listeners

about what the most likely outcome of this election is looking like electorally? And how did a

group of Democrats, people don't understand this outside New York, I think, end up caucusing

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