The Brian Lehrer Show

In the next episode of "The Eights: A Brief History of the American Culture Wars" John Schaefer, WNYC host of New Sounds and Soundcheck, and Kurt Andersen, co-founder of Spy Magazine, host of Studio 360 and author of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire

WNYC transportation reporter Stephen Nessen discusses the spending plan put forth by NYCT president Andy Byford that speeds up the timeline for modernizing the subways and other news from the MTA board meeting.  He comments, "The MTA board is wildly supp

New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser, who writes the weekly online column "Letter from Trump’s Washington,” talks about the breaking news that President Trump is cancelling the North Korea summit meeting, plus more on the White House pushback on the Mue

Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura's senior editor and co-author of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Workman Publishing Company, 2016), joins us each day during the pledge drive to talk about some of her favorite hidden gems from

In the next installment, of "The Eights: A brief history of the American Culture Wars," Harris Poll C.E.O John Gerzema and executive editor Michael D'Antonio, co-authors of The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Fu

Liz Garbus, documentary filmmaker (What Happened, Miss Simone? Nothing Left Unsaid, The Farm) and now director and producer of Showtime's four-part docu-series "The Fourth Estate," and New York Times White House correspondent Julie Hirschfeld Davis talk

New York Times White House correspondent Julie Hirschfeld Davis talks about the national implications of the Georgia Democratic primary, plus how the Department of Justice is responding to the president's demand for an investigation into the investigatio

Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura's senior editor and co-author of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Workman Publishing Company, 2016), joins us each day during the pledge drive to talk about some of her favorite hidden gems from

Naomi Oreskes, Harvard professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences, continues our series "The Eights" by exploring how the environmentalism movement in the 1970s led to sweeping policy changes and the resu

Samantha Fuentes and Cameron Kasky, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and two of the recipients of this year's PEN America Freedom of Expression Courage Award are joined by Suzanne Nossel, PEN America chief executive officer, to talk about