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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Iran After the Revolution
Laura Secor, writer and author of Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran (Riverhead Books, 2017), talks about the activists, politicians, artists, journalists and religious thinkers who have made waves in Iran since the theocratic revolution in 1979.