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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 172 days 13 hours 28 minutes
Final Debate Analysis With Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile, Fox New analyst, former Democratic National Committee chair and author of Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House (Hachette, 2017), offers analysis of last night's debate between Pre
Barrett Sails Through Senate Judiciary Committee Over Dems' Boycott
Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent , previews Thursday night's presidential debate, and reports on the latest regarding Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination.
Meet the 'Geniuses'
All this week, meet one of the local 2020 MacArthur geniuses. Today: Brooklyn's Jacqueline Woodson, 2020 MacArthur Fellow and the author of the National Book Award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2014) and her latest, Before the Ever Af
Stories of Modern Love
Daniel Jones, editor of the Modern Love column at The New York Times, and Miya Lee, editor of Modern Love projects at The New York Times, are co-hosts of the Modern Love podcast. They join Brian join to talk about the new season of the podcast and hear y
Sen. Murphy on Election Security, ACB Vote, More
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D CT), member of the Foreign Relations committee and author of the forthcoming The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy (Random House, 2020), talks about the latest federal response to the public
30 Issues: The Future of COVID-19 Testing
Ashish Jha, M.D., physician, health policy researcher and dean of the Brown University School of Health, talks about the current system of COVID-19 testing and how a future Trump or Biden presidency might impact how testing works and is deployed in the U
Michael Moore: Is It 2016 All Over Again?
Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker, talks about swing state enthusiasm for the president, his get out the vote efforts, and whether he's making election predictions this time around.
30 Issues: Repealing (Or Expanding) Obamacare
Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News and host of KHN's "What the Health" podcast, talks about the future of Obamacare under a potential Trump or Biden presidency.
Meet the 'Geniuses'
All this week, meet one of the local 2020 MacArthur geniuses. Today: Montclair's Nanfu Wang, 2020 MacArthur Fellow and documentary filmmaker whose most recent film is "One Child Nation," who was honored for "creating intimate character studies that exami
Rep. Kathleen Rice of New York on the News
Kathleen Rice, United States Representative for New York's 4th congressional district, joins Brian to discuss the news — from growing fears of election night violence to COVID relief efforts, and more.