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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 172 days 6 hours 10 minutes
Voting Reforms Come to New York
New York State Senator (D 20th, Brooklyn) Zellnor Myrie talks about the bills he sponsored to reform New York's voting laws.
'Cat Person' Author Has More Stories to Tell
Kristen Roupenian, author of the short story "Cat Person," included in the new collection, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories (Soho Press, 2019), talks about her latest book. "The vitriol of some of the more male responses was surprisin
Who Bears the Brunt of the Shutdown?
Juan Williams, political analyst for Fox News and the author of What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump's War on Civil Rights (PublicAffairs, 2018), examines the claims that people of color bear the brunt of the shutdown and of low-wage immigrant labo
How Paid Vacation Looks Around the World
Mayor de Blasio announced a proposal to require businesses with five or more employees to provide two weeks of paid vacation. Sherry Leiwant, co-founder and co-president of A Better Balance, and Felix Salmon, chief financial correspondent for Axios and h
Rep. Meng on Shutdown, Wall and Voting Reforms
Grace Meng, U.S. Representative (D - NY6), talks about the new Democratically controlled House and the latest on ending the shutdown.
The Life of Frederick Douglass
David Blight professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, talks about his book Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster, 2018). EVENT:
Shutdown America
FiveThirtyEight’s politics editor Sarah Frostenson discusses her predictions for how the current government shutdown will resolve itself and its impact on communities around the nation.
Climate and Change in Congress
New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone made news on the show this week when he said he refused to stop taking donations from the fossil fuels industry even though he now chairs the energy committee. Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, a g
#Ask the Mayor: Health Care for All New York, Paid Vacation for Private Sector Workers
New York City Mayor,Bill de Blasio, takes calls from listeners and discusses his progressive proposals in his State of the City speech. @BrianLehrer Rationale for new plan for East River Park resiliency redesign. Why close the entire park for 3 years, wh
Governor Cuomo on Blue Albany and L Train Update
Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to his top legislative priorities for the first 100 days of the new session in Albany. .@NYGovCuomo is calling into the @BrianLehrer Show on @WNYC. Lehrer is doing a live taping before about 100 people today. Cuomo is on spe