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, Snap Judgment, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin and many others. © WNYC Studios
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COVID Long-Haul Updates
Marjan Islam, M.D., director of the COVID-19 Recovery and Engagement (CORE) Clinic at Montefiore Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, talks about the latest in CO
Behind the Scenes in Trump's Last Year in Office
The Washington Post's White House senior Washington correspondent Philip Rucker and national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig, authors of I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year (Penguin Press, 2021), tell the untold story of 20
Critical Race Theory 101
As one of the preeminent scholars of critical race theory and its reading of history, Ibram X. Kendi, professor in the Humanities and the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, columnist at The Atlantic, author of the
Public Health and Individual Health and the Pandemic
Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer, Peabody, and Polk-prize-winning health and science writer, and author of multiple best-selling books on global health and epidemic diseases, including The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, talks a
How Los Angeles is Grappling With its Homelessness Crisis
Homelessness in Los Angeles was already a crisis when the pandemic hit. Jaime Lowe, contributor to The New York Times Magazine and author of three books, including the forthcoming Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Frontlines of California
Tuesday Morning (New York City and State) Politics
Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University, host of the podcast FAQNYC, politics editor at The Grio and author of Black Ethnics (Oxford University Press, 2013), talks about the latest city political news, as Brooklyn Borough Presi
Bill Barr and the Law
Elie Honig, CNN senior legal analyst and author of Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department (HarperCollins, 2021) talks about his new book examining the Bill Barr era at the DOJ, plus offers analysis of
Cuba Sees Largest Protests in Decades
Dr. Andy S. Gomez, retired director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and former assistant provost and dean of International Studies of Cuban Studies at the University of Miami, and Frances Robles, national and foreign correspondent f
Meet the Mayoral Candidate: Eric Adams
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, projected winner of the Democratic primary for NYC Mayor, talks about his primary win and his plans for office, should he win in November.
Monday Morning Politics with Rep. Jeffries
U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn and Queens), House Democrats chairman, talks about the rollout of the child tax credit payments to families, budget talks on the Hill and more national political news.