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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HIAS Responds to Deadly Attack on Pittsburgh Synagogue
Melanie Nezer, senior vice president of public affairs at HIAS, a nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees, talks about the weekend's deadly attack at a Pittsburgh synagogue, where the suspect allegedly put up dero
Monday Morning Politics: Pittsburgh Synagogue, Package Bombs, Right-Wing Radicalization
Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent, reports on the latest national political news, including the investigation into the person suspected of mailing bombs to prominent Trump critics, and surveys the campaign landscape ahead of the midterm
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Nina Totenberg, Reading Philip Roth, Andy Borowitz
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Kavanaugh's Welcome to the Supreme Court (First) | 'The Gradualism of Alarm': Reading Philip Roth (Starts at 19:00) | Andy Borowitz on Today's News (Starts at 34:38) If you don't subs
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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