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 9 hours 26 minutes
The Generation That Vaped Before It Smoked
New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino looks at the rise of vaping and whether it's the answer to smoking's problems or just a different kind of vice.
Ask The Mayor: SVU, DOE, Taxis, Trash Collection
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses the week in NYC, including how the NYPD is handling special victims cases, the plight of taxi drivers, and discriminatory patterns in schools and trash collection.
The History of TRussia
Seth Hettena, investigative reporter and the author of Trump / Russia: A Definitive History (Melville House, 2018), traces the history of Donald Trump's interactions with Russia, from 1984 through the campaign.
The Eights | 1958 and the Culture War Rumblings
Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed (2010) and Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Simon & Schuster, 2016), discusses the political and cultural climate of 1958.
Consent and the "Gray Zone" on Campus
Jessica Bennett, gender editor at The New York Times, and Daniel Jones, editor of The New York Times Modern Love column, talk about their new collection of stories from college students that examine sexual consent, so-called "gray-zone sex" and other rel
Thursday Morning Politics: Michael Cohen, Haspel Hearing, North Korea Prisoners
Jonathan Lemire, White House reporter for the Associated Press and political analyst for MSNBC/NBC News, talks about the latest national political news of the day, including Michael Cohen's business dealings, the newly-released American prisoners from No
Medical Guide to Treating Opioid Addiction
Adam Bisaga, MD, an addiction psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and the author of Overcoming Opioid Addiction: The Authoritative Medical Guide for Patients, Families, Doctors, and Therapists (The Experiment, 2018), offers ad
The Eights | 1948 in TV, Music and 'Consensus Culture'
Robert Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and trustee professor of media studies at Syracuse University, takes a look back at how the role of television in cultural hegemony and the cultural divides in mus
The President's 'Really Insane Decision'
Jarrett Blanc, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former deputy lead coordinator and State Department coordinator for Iran nuclear implementation at the U.S. Department of State under President Obama, talks about Presiden
'All They Want Is Control'
Alexis Grenell, co-founder of Pythia Public, a political and public affairs firm, and a frequent contributor to the Daily News, and Liz Roberts, deputy CEO at Safe Horizon, an organization offering support to victims of domestic violence, follow up on th