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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30 Issues: The Border, the Caravan and President Trump


Washington Post national security reporter Nick Miroff talks about the latest news from the border, plus how the caravan of asylum seekers traveling through Mexico to the U.S. from Central America has become a perfect wedge issue for President Trump ahea


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 October 26, 2018  24m
 
 

The Interment of Matthew Shepard


Twenty years after he was brutally beaten and murdered in what was widely seen as an anti-gay hate crime, Matthew Shepard is to be interred at Washington’s National Cathedral. Elliott Forrest, broadcaster and producer for WQXR and WNYC, directed a new or


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 October 26, 2018  15m
 
 

30 Issues: Federal Housing


Julian Castro, former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama, and author of An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (Little, Brown and Company, 2018), discusses what federal housing policies to


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 October 26, 2018  31m
 
 

Ask the Mayor: Pipe Bombs, Renewal Schools, Staten Island


New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC. @NYCMayor: This is a "suspected explosive device, period." Says it's a mistake to wish that they are hoax bombs; until otherwise notified, assume they are real


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 October 26, 2018  31m
 
 

Our Amendments: The 10th


This season, the Radiolab spin-off More Perfect is exploring all 27 Constitutional Amendments in words . . .and music. More Perfect producer Kelly Prime reviews one: the 10th.


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 October 25, 2018  7m
 
 

30 Issues: Family Leave


Kirsten Gillibrand, United States Senator from New York (D), discusses how family leave and childcare policies could change if Democrats take Congress in November. .@SenGillibrand says her plan would average for New Yorkers to be about $2/week, and it ap


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 October 25, 2018  11m
 
 

Meet the Candidates: Marc Molinaro


Marc Molinaro, Dutchess County executive and Republican candidate for governor, talks about his campaign. Why did you vote against same-sex marriage in the assembly?@marcmolinaro: My position was exactly the same a decade ago as Clinton's and Obama's. "T


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 October 25, 2018  18m
 
 

'The Gradualism of Alarm': Reading Philip Roth


Bernard Schwartz, director of the Unterberg Poetry Center at 92nd Street Y, talks about the enduring significance of Philip Roth's alternative history novel The Plot Against America, which will be read by a cast of actors at the 92nd Street Y. Actress Je


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 October 25, 2018  15m
 
 

Suspicious Packages and Other News


PBS Newshour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor talks about the national political news of the day, including how the Trump administration is reacting to explosive devices sent to Democratic political figures, critics of the president, and CNN. .


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 October 25, 2018  15m
 
 

Our Amendments: The 4th


Sarah Qari reviews the 4th Amendment from The Most Perfect Album, a soundtrack from the Radiolab spin-off More Perfect that explores all 27 Constitutional Amendments in words and music. 


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 October 24, 2018  6m