The Brian Lehrer Show

Anne Applebaum, Atlantic staff writer, covering national politics and foreign policy, and the author of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Doubleday July, 2020) talks about this year's Nobel Peace Prize: the U.N.'s World Food

The Governor's plan to partially shut down parts of Brooklyn and Queens amid several localized outbreaks has left residents of the boroughs with some confusion. Jake Dobkin, co-founder of Gothamist where he's been the de facto numbers-cruncher-in-chief f

Emma Green, staff writer at ?The Atlantic covering politics, policy, and religion, explains why LGBTQ rights and religious freedom are often in conflict, whether they can peacefully co-exist and how the question is answered by the two presidential candid

Hear callers respond to the vice-presidential candidates' debate between current Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris, plus analysis -- first from Tarini Parti, politics reporter at The Wall Street Journal, and then from Christopher Cadela

Ginia Bellafante, "Big City" columnist for the New York Times, and Ari Feldman, staff writer at The Forward, talk about the COVID-19 hot spots in some strictly orthodox communities and assess the city's and the state's responses to the uptick.

Trump says getting sick with the coronavirus was like going to "school" and learning about the virus first hand. Craig Spencer, M.D., New York City emergency medicine physician and director of global health in emergency medicine at Columbia University Ir

Elizabeth Palley, director of the PhD Program at the Adelphi University School of Social Work and a scholar of the history of child care policy, talks about the history and the future of these policies in the Unites States, and how the policies of the pr

Ida Sawyer, acting director of Human Rights Watch’s Crisis and Conflict division, and the deputy Africa director, talks about her group's recently released report that looked at the way police in riot gear trapped peaceful protesters in the Bronx back in

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams joins to discuss the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Brooklyn, where schools are going fully remote and what else may shut down in certain zip codes.

Andrea Bernstein, WNYC reporter and co-host of the WNYC/Pro Publica podcast Trump, Inc. and the author of American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power (W.W. Norton and Company, 2020), shares her thoughts on corruption