The Brian Lehrer Show

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and staff writer and host of the New Yorker Radio Hour, previews the 19th annual New Yorker Festival and the lineup of artists, writers, and actors -- plus talks about the news of the day and recent stories in the

30 Issues in 30 Days continues with Celeste Drake, trade and globalization policy specialist at the AFL-CIO, and Ambassador Terry Miller, director at the Center for International Trade and Economics at The Heritage Foundation, discussing how Trump's trad

Lawmakers are predicting New Jersey could pass a law legalizing recreational marijuana by the end of this month.  The bill's sponsor, New Jersey State Senator Nicholas Scutari (D-22nd, parts of Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties), gives an update on

Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York Magazine and the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon & Schuster, 2018), argues that despite cultural norms stifling women's public displays of anger, it has fueled pol

For President Trump, the tax bill is THE big thing that his administration has managed to get through Congress. Jeff Cox, finance editor for CNBC.com, then Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist and columnist for the New York Times, talk about wheth

Brett Kavanaugh called Friday's hearing Democratic "revenge on behalf of the Clintons." Steve Kornacki, national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, talks about today's headlines and his new book that looks back to the Clinton era as the star

Reporter Rachel Holliday Smith discusses her exploration of the successes and failures of the Mayor de Blasio's Turn the Tide initiative to overhaul New York City's shelter system and combat homelessness and the impact of the new shelters in Crown Height

First, listeners call in to talk about how policy has impacted their pocketbooks. Then, Heather Howard, American health policy expert and former associate director of the Domestic Policy Council during the Clinton administration, and Robert Moffit, senio

In light of the news surrounding Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination and the multiple accusations of sexual assault against him from long ago, Jeane Anastas, professor of Social Work at NYU Silver School of Social Work, talks about why people ofte

As the new Supreme Court session gets underway with only eight justices, the FBI begins its one-week investigation into charges against nominee Brett Kavanaugh in a compromise deal between the Democrats and Rep. Sen. Jeff Flake.  Dahlia Lithwick, reporte