The Brian Lehrer Show

With the June primary four months away, Brigid Bergin, the City Hall and politics reporter for WNYC and David Cruz, WNYC/Gothamist news editor, talk about some of the factors shaping the race, including big endorsements and big money.

Heather McGhee, chair of Color of Change board of directors, former president of the liberal think tank Demos and the author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World, 2021), talks about her new book and how

Rosa Brooks, law professor at Georgetown University and founder of Georgetown's Innovative Policing Program and the author of Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City ( Penguin Press, 2021), talks about what she learned after joining the Washington

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D NY) talks about the razor-thin Democratic majority in the Senate and what that means for the Biden agenda and New York residents, including on immigration reform, COVID relief and more.

Alessandra Biaggi, State Senator representing New York's 34th Senate District, talks about the details of her bill, which would repeal Governor Cuomo's expanded emergency powers, which he was granted last spring at the start of the pandemic. 

Pet adoptions have boomed since the start of the pandemic, and dog trainers and pet behavior specialists are booked for weeks in advance. Robert Haussmann, certified trainer and behavior specialist and co-founder of Dogboy NYC, takes your calls if you've

Jonathan Scott Holloway, president of Rutgers University and the author of The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans (Oxford University Press, 2021), talks about African American history in the context of today's realities.

The Brian Lehrer Show and The Greene Space have launched a new series about the business side of the prison industry. Each week we examine one aspect of the $80 billion dollar prison industrial complex, and ask: who profits when people get put away? This

Jake Dobkin, co-founder of Gothamist, where he's been the de facto numbers-cruncher in chief for all things COVID-19, and Nsikan Akpan, WNYC's health and science editor, talk about the latest COVID-19 news, including how New York's positivity rates compa

U.S. Representative Tom Suozzi (D NY3, parts of Long Island and Queens), talks about COVID relief in Congress, the Biden agenda and the role of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus in today's political atmosphere.