The Brian Lehrer Show

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Fighting Addiction Stigma with Pride (First) | Cautionary Lessons from Mussolini's March on Rome (Starts at 24:44) | 30 Issues: The Disparate Impact of COVID-19 (Starts at 47:05)   If

Earlier this week President Trump's adviser (and son-in-law) Jared Kushner used a racist trope when he said Black people have to "want to be successful" in order to be successful. Kai Wright, host and managing editor for the WNYC show The United States o

We wrap up our series with the local 2020 MacArthur geniuses. Today: New York's Fred Moten, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, cultural theorist, poet and professor in the department of performance studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, who received the honor fo

In the first presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden declared he was proud of his son despite using drugs. To many viewers with a family member struggling with addiction, it was a powerful moment. Kassandra Frederique, the executive director

Kelsey Snell, NPR congressional correspondent, talks about the fate of the next COVID-19 relief package and what's at stake in the election for what's included.

Jonathan Lemire, White House reporter for the Associated Press and political analyst for MSNBC/NBC News, talks about the latest political news, including the candidates' sprint to the finish line, and the congressional hearings on social media and disinf

Mary Bassett, director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, as well as professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, talks about how to fight the disparate impact in who gets sick, and who dies, from COVID-19.

Over 300,000 New York City residents have already voted early, but it's not without its problems. Brigid Bergin, WNYC City Hall and politics reporter, talks about how the notoriously hapless Board of Elections is handling the surge of voters in the midst

On the anniversary of Mussolini's 1922 March on Rome that signaled the start of Fascist rule, Kenneth C. Davis, author of the "Don't Know Much About History" series and most recently, Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy (Henry

With Rep. Peter King's retirement, there's an open race for his Long Island South Shore seat in Congress. First, Democrat Jackie Gordon, combat veteran and educator, and then, Republican Andrew Garbarino, New York Assembly Member, make their cases to the