The Brian Lehrer Show

Politico U.K. tech & politics reporter, Annabelle Dickson, discuses big news this week from the U.K. Parliament on Facebook and Brexit. "The UK press woke up on Monday morning to these accusations that Facebook was acting like a digital gangster. Thi

Political anchor of Spectrum NY1 News, host of Inside City Hall, Daily News columnist and host of the new podcast "You Decide," Errol Louis, recaps the final debate in the special election for NYC public advocate. Why has @NYDailyNews endorsed Eric Ulric

Even as more consumers would like to cut down on plastic use, the shiny stuff is absolutely everywhere. From toothpaste to Tupperware, Steven Kurutz, features reporter for the New York Times, talks about how plastic is an especially hard habit to kick, a

Charles Stile, political columnist at The Record, and Karen Rouse, WNYC New Jersey reporter, talk about the progress — and obstacles — in New Jersey toward legalizing cannabis. "They came up with this flat tax, or weigh-based tax, of $42 per ounce. The a

Filmmaker RaMell Ross talks about his Oscar-nominated feature-length documentary, "Hale County This Morning, This Evening." "That's the one thing that’s missing from the mainstream media landscape, which is just normal life. We tend to watch things… and

Jill Abramson, political columnist for the Guardian, former executive editor of The New York Times, talks about her new book, Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts (Simon & Schuster, 2019), and responds to the charges of pl

Enterprise reporter at The Washington Post, John Woodrow Cox, talks about how schools are preparing — and in some cases traumatizing — students for shootings, even as those incidents are still technically rare. "We saw that kids would write wills, saying

An assessment of how Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing so far — and a closer look at whether her stance on the now-cancelled Amazon hub in Queens was out of step with her constituents.  Brigid Bergin, City Hall reporter for WNYC, and Juan M

Syrian-born director Talal Derki  talks about his new documentary, “Of Fathers and Sons,” which provides rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate. In the film Derki returns to Syria where he embeds with a radical Islamist family

Jean Chatzky, financial editor of NBC’s TODAY show and host of the HerMoney podcast, answers caller questions about 2018 tax filings following last year's tax overhaul.