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: 171 days 9 hours 26 minutes
The Growing Power of Conspiracy Theories
Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor of The Atlantic, talks about how conspiracy theories are appealing to a growing number of Americans, how the president often amplifies them and why that is a threat to all of us.
Pandemic Unemployment Plays Out Differently in the US and Europe
Dominic Rushe, business editor for The Guardian US, explains why unemployment numbers - while still high and growing - are less dramatic in Europe compared to the United States.
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Expanding 'Bubbles' Safely, Racial Disparities in Policing Covid-19, Name That Birdsong!
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Expanding 'Bubbles' Safely (First) | Racial Disparities in Policing Covid-19 (Starts at 21:12) | Name That Birdsong! (Starts at 50:11) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show
Name That Birdsong!
It's prime birding season in area parks, backyards and windowsills. Heather Wolf, a web developer for Cornell Lab of Ornithology and its eBird project and the author of Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront (The Experi
What To Make of Antibodies
Yasmin Tayag, senior editor at OneZero, a science and technology publication from Medium and an editor at Medium's Coronavirus blog, clears up what it means to have COVID-19 antibodies, what it doesn't mean, and how antibody testing is helping us underst
Historical Census
Andrew Whitby, data scientist and author of The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age (Basic Books, 2020), breaks down the three-thousand-year history of the census and traces the making of the mod
Speak to the Speaker: Rents, Policing, and More
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson talks about the NYC budget and the plans negotiated with City Hall to close miles of city streets to cars to make more room for social distancing while walking, running and biking, plus other issues facing NYC
Is it Safe to Expand Our Bubbles?
As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, people are slowly expanding their "bubbles" of people they see. Julia Marcus, infectious disease epidemiologist and assistant professor in the department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard P
Connecticut's Reopening Plans
Phase One of Connecticut's plans to reopen starts next week. Susan Haigh, political writer/statehouse reporter in Hartford, CT for The Associated Press, talks about which businesses can reopen and under what conditions.
Are You Still Waiting for Unemployment?
More than 20 million Americans lost their jobs in April as the national unemployment rate climbed to 15%. Richard Blum, member of The Legal Aid Society’s Employment Law Unit, takes questions from listeners who are having trouble navigating the overburden