Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 172 days 22 hours 41 minutes
Impeachment, Today
Natasha Bertrand, POLITICO's national security correspondent, runs down the latest impeachment headlines and previews the first week of public hearings in the House.
Veterans and the Trump Administration
David Shulkin, former secretary of Veterans Affairs under Presidents Obama and Trump, doctor and former president and CEO of New York's Beth Israel Medical Center and the author of It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government an
#AskTheMayor: Minority Contracting, Commercial Rent, New Police Chief & Eradicating Lead
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
Your Child's Brain on Screens
Perri Klass, pediatrician, New York Times health columnist, professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University, national medical director of Reach Out and Read and the author of The Mercy Rule: A Novel (Mariner Books, 2009), talks about the la
Singing Chinese-American Foreign Policy
David Henry Hwang, playwright (M. Butterfly, Yellow Face), talks about the musical-within-a-play, Soft Power, with music by Jeanine Tesori, that explores U.S. foreign policy toward China, from the Chinese perspective. Plus, Francis Jue, actor (M. Butterf
All The Presidents' Lawyers' Lawyers
Lanny Davis, the lawyer who formerly represented Michael Cohen in his testimony before Congress, formerly a spokesman for the Clinton White House's anti-impeachment efforts, talks about his time in the Clinton White House coordinating anti-impeachment ef
Medicare For All: Warren vs. Sanders
Adrianna McIntyre, health policy writer at the Incidental Economist and health policy researcher at Harvard, explains Senator Elizabeth Warren's healthcare plan and compares it to Senator Bernie Sanders's version.
How Women Can Escape the 'Likeability' Trap
Alicia Menendez, MSNBC anchor host of the “Latina to Latina” podcast, former co- host of “Amanpour and Company” on PBS, and the author of The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are (HarperBusiness, 2019), explains the downside to "lik
Global Demonstrations
Cal Perry, NBC News international correspondent, and Luciani Gomes, BBC News South America producer, discuss international unrest across Chile, Iraq and Lebanon.
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams on Election Results and More
NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams talks about the results of Tuesday's elections and the police presence in the subways.