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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 171 days 14 hours 39 minutes
#AskTheMayor: fairer high school admissions, NYCHA gaming safety inspections
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, answers questions about the fairness of the admissions tests for the city's elite high schools and comments on his son Dante's editorial in New York Daily News, a citywide ban on plastic bags, the and the federal f
Forget "Leaning," Change It
Helena Morrissey, British investment banking executive, made a dame in the Queen's Birthday Honors 2017 for improving diversity in financial services and the author of A Good Time to be a Girl: Don't Lean In, argues we need to move beyond diversity initi
The Eights | Obama's Presidential Run in 2008
Donna Brazile, former chair of Democratic National Committee and author of Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House, discusses the 2008 presidential campaign of President Barack Obama and its impact
Council Speaker Johnson Talks City Budget
Corey Johnson, Speaker of the New York City Council -- representing District 3 covering Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, the West Village, and parts of Flatiron, SoHo and the Upper West Sidetalks about the City Council's, responsds to Mayor de Blasio's executive
Southern Baptist Convention Riled by #MeToo & Politics
Julie Zauzmer covers religion, faith and spirituality for the Washington Post. She reports from the Southern Baptist Convention which voted this week for resolutions strongly condemning abuse while also affirming the traditional roles of women in the chu
Getting Through to Boys
Adam Cox, clinical psychologist and the author of Cracking the Boy Code: How to Understand and Talk with Boys, offers practical advice for communicating with boys.
The Eights | How the 2008 Financial Crisis Divided America
Tanzina Vega, new host of The Takeaway, and Adam Davidson, New Yorker staff writer and co-founder of NPR's Planet Money, discuss how the Great Recession of 2008 exacerbated the cultural divides in the United States and contributed to today's Culture Wars
Responsible Citizens
Ahead of this year’s midterm elections, WNYC and Gothamist are surveying listeners and readers to find out what kind of civic engagement our listeners already participate in, and what the hurdles are to doing more. Mark Winston Griffith, executive direct
7 Big News Stories in National Politics
Susan Page is the Washington bureau chief of USA TODAY. She takes calls on seven big news stories out of Washington today.
Unbounded By Gender
Arlene Stein, professor of sociology at Rutgers University, director of the Institute for Research on Women and the author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity (Pantheon, 2018), and Ben Shepherd, who shared his story for Unbound, talk