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.
https://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 171 days 16 hours 49 minutes
Sickle Cell Anemia, Disparities in Care and the Late Rapper Prodigy
Mary Harris and Christopher M Johnson, WNYC health reporters, discuss their new podcast, The Realness, which takes listeners behind the rapper Prodigy’s music to his life with sickle cell anemia, revealing how his condition touched almost every part of h
Elizabeth Warren: 'Left, Female, and Furious'
Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York Magazine and the author of All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (Simon & Schuster, 2016) and the forthcoming Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
'This is Not the Way Responsible Superpowers Act'
Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker who writes the weekly online column, "Letter from Trump's Washington," talks about the latest political news from Washington. On the president's Tweets this morning threatening Iran, Glasser says "this is not
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Montenegro, Living Near Jails, Blindspotting
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Montenegro Explained (First) | "The Jail Next Door" (Starts at 26:02) | Blindspotting (Starts at 45:54) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here
Library Cards as Keys to Culture
Linda Johnson, president and C.E.O. of the Brooklyn Public Library, talks about the new program that lets all three library system card-holders visit major NYC cultural institutions for free. →Brooklyn Public Library announcement →New York Public Library
Northeast Cannabis Legalization Update
Alyson Martin, cofounder of Cannabis Wire and reporting adjunct at Columbia Journalism School, discusses marijuana legalization developments in New York, New Jersey, Vermont and Massachusetts. "Almost every state takes a completely different approach wh
TRussia This Week
Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy and host of the Trump Inc. podcast at WNYC, and Marcy Wheeler, independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties for her site, Empty Wheel, talk about the latest development
McFaul on Putin's "Incredible Offer"
Michael McFaul, professor of political science, director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and author of From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia(Houghton Miffl
Treating Addiction Without Stigma
Dr. Lloyd Sederer, adjunct professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the author of The Addiction Solution: Treating Our Dependence on Opioids and Other Drugs (Scribner, 2018), looks at approaches to addiction treatment that h
Protecting Data Use "Borders"
Michael Chertoff, executive chairman and co-founder of The Chertoff Group, a security consulting company, former Homeland Security Secretary, and the author of Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018