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 Progressive Majority is (Still) Coming
Going into the 2016 election, Steve Phillips, civil rights lawyer, founder of Democracy in Color, co-founder of PowerPAC.org and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress predicted a Democratic majority if the party ignored white swing voters. In the new paperback edition of Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority(The New Press, 2018), he doubles down on his theory in the aftermath of the results, despite Republican efforts to restrict immigration and delay the changes.