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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Primarily New York: WFP Results & NYC Comptroller
Bill Lipton, New York State director of the Working Families Party, and Maurice Mitchell, Working Families Party national director, review the results of the New York primary and look ahead to November. Then New York City comptroller Scott Stringer revie
The Results, Live
As the results of the primary races for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Senate, and more come in, Brian Lehrer covers it in real time, checking in at the candidates' headquarters to hear how they're reacting. He is joined by WNYC r
NY1 on NY Primary
Co-hosts of the new podcast Off Topic On Politics -- Juan Manuel Benítez, Spectrum News NY1 Noticias reporter and co-host of Pura Politica, Spectrum News NY1 statehouse reporter Zack Fink, and Spectrum News NY1 political reporter Grace Rauh -- offer anal
FAQ for the Primaries
As New Yorkers vote in their parties' primaries, Azi Paybarah, co-host of the political podcast FAQ NYC, Harry Siegel, another co-host, Daily Newscolumnist and Daily Beast senior editor, & Christina Greer, another FAQ co-host and an associate profess
The Realities of Voter Suppression
Carol Anderson, professor of African-American studies at Emory University and the author of White Rage, talks about her new book, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018). The parties are so dif
China's Muslim Persecutions
Chris Buckley, correspondent covering China for The New York Times, and Josh Rogin, global opinions columnist who covers foreign policy and national security for the Washington Post, detail China's brutal crackdown on the Uighur Muslim minority, and how
Primary Preview and Cuomo Review
Ahead of New York's primary election on Thursday, Greg David, director of the business and economics reporting program at The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism (CUNY), a Crain's New York Business columnist and the author of Modern New York: The
Yesterday's Giuliani and Today's National Politics
Karen Tumulty, political columnist for The Washington Post, talks about the latest news from Washington, D.C. Whatever people think of Giuliani now, in that moment "he was seen as a great force for unity, not division," says @ktumulty, reflecting on Giul
Libraries for the People
Eric Klinenberg, professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and the author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (
Primarily New York: The Cynthia Nixon Interview
Cynthia Nixon, actor and activist, talks about her challenge to Gov. Cuomo for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York. .@CynthiaNixon says the governor has not apologized for mailer (that suggested Nixon is anti-semitic) and what he has said