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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New York Primary Preview: Queens Borough President
Early and absentee voting is underway in the New York primary and one of the most hotly contested races is the Democratic primary for Queens Borough President. The City Queens reporter Christine Chung, previews the candidates on the ballot.
Monday Morning Politics
NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and a university professor at the New School, Maya Wiley, talks about the latest national political news.
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Poverty & Equality, Black Trans Women, NYS Police Reform
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Bishop Barber on the Movement (First) | Making Black Trans Lives Matter (Starts at 24:27) | The Repeal of 50-a and Other Albany Reforms (Starts at 51:37) If you don't subscribe to t
How Protests will Shape the NFL Season
Willie Colon, former NFL player, Super Bowl 43 Champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers, co-host of "Barstool Breakfast" and host of the podcasts "The Going Deep" a football podcast and "2Biggs" podcast with Brandon Newman talks about NFL protests, police b
How States Are Battling 'Quarantine Fatigue'
In more than a dozen states across the country, COVID-19 is spiking up again. Alice Miranda Ollstein, health care reporter for POLITICO, discusses where states went wrong while reopening their economies.
Why 90K New Jersey Students Aren't Online
To date, 90,000 of New Jersey's children have not been able to connect to online classes during the past three months of the pandemic. State senator Teresa Ruiz (D NJ 29th district, Essex County), chair of the Senate Education Committee and Senate Presid
Friday Morning Politics: Early Voting Begins, Protests Continue
Brigid Bergin, the City Hall and politics reporter for WNYC, and Jake Offenhartz, reporter at Gothamist, talk about their continuing coverage of the protests in New York City, including the aftermath of the mass arrest in the Bronx last week. Plus what d
Restaurants Inch Toward Re-Opening
Serena Dai, editor at Eater NY, discusses how restaurants are reopening in NYC where the COVID-19 lockdown is lifting.
Making Black Trans Lives Matter
Imara Jones, founder and creator of Translash Media, Soros Equality fellow and journalist-in-residence at The Greene Space, and TS Candii, an organizer with DecrimNY and the Repeal the #WalkingWhileTrans Ban Coalition, tell the story of Tony McDade, a bl
Is Camden a Model for Police Reform?
Allison Steele, news reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, talks about the extent to which Camden, NJ's 2013 dissolution of its dysfunctional police department, and replacing it with a county force, can be a model for police reformers today.