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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From El Salvador to Oakland
Lauren Markham, journalist and the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life(Broadway Books, 2017), tells the story of identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores who fled El Salvador for Oakland, California, and talks about what motivates migration and what happens next.