The Brian Lehrer Show

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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U.S. and China Forever Trade War


Ana Swanson, who writes about trade and international economics for the New York Times, discusses the latest updates on the U.S. trade war with China.


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 August 7, 2019  24m
 
 

Guns and the City: Your Experiences of Gun Violence in NYC


Brian Cunningham, director of Neighbors in Action, a non-profit group that seeks to mediate violence in central Brooklyn, discusses the rise in acts of gun violence in New York City and listeners share their experiences.


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 August 7, 2019  36m
 
 

The Internet, Social Media and Extremism


Andrew Marantz, editorial staffer at The New Yorker and the author of the forthcoming Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Viking, 2019) talks about the role social media is playing in recent whi


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 August 6, 2019  18m
 
 

Labor in the US


Steven Greenhouse, former New York Times labor and workplace reporter discusses the history of the U.S. labor movement and his new book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Knopf, 2019)  


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 August 6, 2019  29m
 
 

NYC Free Lunch Programs


New York City kids can still get free lunch once school's out for the summer. Founder of the New York City Healthy Food Alliance and journalist who covers food issues, Andrea Strong, talks about how children can get summer meals and what we can do to adv


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 August 6, 2019  19m
 
 

Guns + Extremism


Jamil Jivani, lawyer, community activist, co-founder of Our Ohio Renewal and the author of Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It (All Points Books, 2019), shares his knowledge on the attraction of violent ex


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 August 6, 2019  42m
 
 

Kissing Evangelicalism Goodbye?


Best-selling author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Joshua Harris recently announced he is no longer a Christian, sending waves throughout the evangelical world. Pete Enns biblical scholar, podcaster and author of How the Bible Actually Works (HarperOne, 201


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 August 5, 2019  16m
 
 

FBI Warns: Conspiracies Are a Form of Domestic Terrorism


Jana Winter, Yahoo News Contributor, talks about Yahoo News' exclusive investigation which found that, for the first time, the FBI is classifying fringe conspiracy theories as domestic terrorism. "At one point in American society some 60-80% of people be


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 August 5, 2019  19m
 
 

Trump Addresses the Nation After Back-to-Back Massacres


A total of 29 people were killed in the unrelated mass shootings over the weekend. As the President addresses a nation, divided over how to solve the crisis of gun violence, John Nichols, The Nation national affairs correspondent, and Adriano Espaillat,


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 August 5, 2019  49m
 
 

Judge’s Ruling Calls for Firing of Officer Pantaleo Over Garner Death


Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC reporter, and Rocco Parascandola, NY Daily News police bureau chief and author of GUNZ AND GOD: The Life of an NYPD Undercover (Lulu Publishing Services, 2017), talk about the NYPD administrative judge's ruling that calls for Office


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 August 5, 2019  24m