The Brian Lehrer Show

Joy-Ann Reid, MSNBC political analyst, host of AM Joy and the author of The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story , talks about national news and offers her analysis of the social changes that led to as well as the impact o

Check out two of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them: NYT's The Argument (First) |  Looking Back on 'MAD' Magazine (Starts at 59:04) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

Callers describe evidence of climate change they notice in and around the city. @BrianLehrer I've noticed much more "pond scum" covering the lakes and ponds in northern NJ... — Virginia Rietz (@ginzinger) July 12, 2019 @BrianLehrer Flowering pear trees i

United States Senator Michael Bennet, 2020 presidential hopeful, and author of The Land of Flickering Lights: Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019) , talks about his campaign for the Democratic nomination for presi

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to begin raids across the country this weekend to arrest thousands of migrant families who already have court orders to be removed. Steven Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, talks

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio answers listeners’ calls about weekly issues in NYC.  .@NYCMayor instructs @BrianLehrer to "hear the difference" b/w what he is doing about lead paint and what other cities are doing. Brian was asking about WNYC's inves

In light of reports that MAD magazine is on the verge of suspending publication, The Nation’s national affairs correspondent, Jeet Heer, discusses the humor magazine’s influential challenge to the status quo. @BrianLehrer I was a pretty conservative kid

This week the appeals court has ruled that President Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked people on Twitter. Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow f

A push to decriminalize sex work to better protect workers has gathered support in Albany and from presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Rebecca Zipkin, attorney at Sanctuary for Families and former prosecutor in Brooklyn prosecuting cases of sex traffic

Margot Sanger-Katz, health care correspondent for the "The Upshot" at The New York Times, discusses the many government programs that would be affected if the Affordable Care Act were to be struck down, including workplace lactation rooms, menu calorie i