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