Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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The 'Collateral Damage' of Gun Deaths in America
On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. Gary Younge, columnist for The Guardian and The Nation and author of Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives (Nation Books, 2016), profiles the ten young men and boys who died from gun violence in the U.S. on one randomly selected day.