The Brian Lehrer Show

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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A Generational Reckoning


In the 30 years since we “won” the Cold War, we’ve seen the first generations of Americans come of age who are not likely to have better standards of living than their parents. Catherine Rampell, syndicated opinion columnist at The Washington Post, polit


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 September 28, 2020  51m
 
 

National Politics: Transition of Power, RBG's Replacement and More


Seung Min Kim, White House reporter for The Washington Post, talks about the latest national political news, including the president's comments about potentially not accepting a peaceful transition of power. Plus, the forthcoming announcement from Presid


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 September 25, 2020  25m
 
 

Ask the Mayor: New COVID Clusters, Schools and More


New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.


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 September 25, 2020  31m
 
 

How Is Remote Learning Affecting Your Job?


Listeners call in to talk about how helping their kids through remote learning has affected their careers, whether they've had to reduce their hours or even quit their jobs.


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 September 25, 2020  18m
 
 

Brian Lehrer Weekend: The Black Vote; COVID Long Haulers; Claudia Rankine


Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. The Black Vote (First) | COVID Long Haulers (Starts at 25:30) | Poet Claudia Rankine (Starts at 47:31) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.


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 September 25, 2020  1h8m
 
 

Reconciliation


When you reconcile a financial statement, you determine who owes who what, and where the money actually goes. Barbara Smith, Black feminist scholar and founder of the Combahee River Collective, explores who owes what to whom and where we go from here.


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 September 24, 2020  50m
 
 

Truth


Keisha Blain, University of Pittsburgh historian and president of the African American Intellectual History Society and the co-editor with Ibram X. Kendi of the forthcoming Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (One World,


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 September 24, 2020  50m
 
 

Is There A Liberal and Conservative Way to Fight a Pandemic?


Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) discusses balancing the risks of reopening against the risks of community spread of COVID-19. Then, Leana Wen, M.D., emergency physician and public health professor at Georg


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 September 23, 2020  48m
 
 

How We're Voting


Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program, and Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones, covering voting rights and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, talk about how


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 September 23, 2020  55m
 
 

Colin Quinn's Take on the Not-So-United States


Colin Quinn, stand-up comedian, writer, performer and the author of Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States (St. Martin's Press, 2020), offers his distinctive observations on the crazy-quilt design of this country and the contradictions and c


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 September 22, 2020  15m