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.
https://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl
The Costs of Permanent War
Mark Danner, a journalist who teaches at the University of California Berkeley and at Bard College and the author of Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War (Simon & Schuster, 2016), says that the "war on terror" set in motion a spiral of perpetual military engagement, which has fundamentally reshaped American values, politics, and the nation as a whole.