Hi, it's Dan. Over the past couple of years, Call Me Back has grown into something much bigger than we ever expected,

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That's what ARC Media is all about, building a truly independent voice, which means no one shaping what we say or how we say it.

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Welcome to Inside Call Me Back, our members-only edition where we open the door and let you shape the conversation.

I want to encourage you to submit your questions

on arcmedia.org. Today we have a special insider edition covering the recent U.S. primary elections

here in the New York area that were held this past week. And that comes with a special

inside, Call Me Back guest, Ryhan Salam, of the Manhattan Institute. Ryhan, who's been on this podcast

before, not only leads the Manhattan Institute, but he's a prolific writer, the author and co-author

of important books on U.S. politics and U.S. policy. He was the subject of a big profile in the

Wall Street Journal recently, which we can link to in the show notes, with his, I think, pretty

trenchant analysis of what is going on in New York under Mamdani. So with that, Ryan, welcome to the

inside. I'm so glad to be here. Thank you for having me, Dan. So, Rehan, we asked our community to

send us questions about this topic, but since we don't typically have you on for special insider editions,

I also get a vote here and have some questions of my own. And I've been wanting to do a download

with you. And I tracked you down yesterday when you were like at LaGuardia boarding a plane or something.

And so I didn't have a chance to get into all the questions I would have liked to have asked you.

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