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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The Rise of the Economists
Binyamin Appelbaum, who writes about economics and business for the editorial page of The New York Times and is the author of The Economists' Hour (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), argues that the post-War II policy of relying on economists (and their e
2020 Debate Breakout: Housing Talk
Jenny Schuetz, fellow with Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, explains how the 2020 field's housing plans fit with reality
Takeaways from the Third Democratic Debate
Annie Linskey, national political reporter, breaks down key moments from the third Democratic presidential debate. Plus your calls on whether any candidate changed your mind.
Malcolm Gladwell on Stranger Danger; Fall Season Must-Sees; Brooklyn's Borough President on NYPD Morale and Solving the Rat Crisis
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Malcolm Gladwell on Stranger Danger (First) | Fall Season Must-Sees (Starts at 29:20) | Brooklyn's Borough President on NYPD Morale and Solving the Rat Crisis (Starts at 47:00) If you
#AsktheMayor: Vision Zero, Affordable Housing
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
How Deal-Making Won Out
Nicholas Lemann, Columbia Journalism School professor, New Yorker staff writer, and the author of Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) traces the roots of our current transactional
State and Federal Efforts to Fight Teen Vaping
New Jersey State Senator Shirley Turner and Rachel Roubein, healthcare reporter for Politico, discuss legislative efforts at the state and federal levels to combat teen vaping, including a proposed ban on e-cigarettes in New Jersey.
Democrats Debate: Round Three
Andrew Prokop, senior politics correspondent for Vox, previews the third Democratic presidential debate on Thursday night. Listening to a 2005 exchange between then senator @JoeBiden and Harvard professor @ewarrenand on @BrianLehrer and the way Biden is
Brooklyn's Borough President on NYPD Morale and Solving the Rat Crisis
Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President, discusses the latest city news, including an apparent slowdown in NYPD arrests and tickets after Officer Pantaleo's firing and a potential new solution to curb NYC's rat problem.
The Long War on Terror
Heather Hurlburt, columnist at New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer, and Initiative Director at New America, Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg Opinion editor, and Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of