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 16 hours 49 minutes
The State Of Bail Reform In New York
Akeem Browder, founder and president of the Kalief Browder Foundation and a criminal justice reform advocate, and Jonathan Lippman, chair of the Independent Commission to close Rikers and former New York State chief judge, and now of counsel at Latham &a
Keeping the TLC Up to Speed
New York lawmakers have called for the replacement of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, advocating for a new agency to regulate the industry. On the Brian Lehrer Show, Rep. Adriano Espaillat called the TLC "the worst city agency ever," and responsible f
Controversy Over The 2020 Census
Joseph Salvo, director of the population division at the New York City Planning Department, and Jami Floyed host of WNYC's All Things Considered and legal analyst, talks about the controversy over the inclusion of a citizenship question in the 2020 Censu
The Anti-Populist President
Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, professor at George Washington University Law School, Atlantic contributor and the author of William Howard Taft: The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 19
To the Future Mme. President
Jennifer Palmieri, who served as communications director for the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and White House communications director for President Barack Obama, talks about her latest book Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women
Four Men and Zero Women in the Room
Andrea Stewart-Cousins, New York State Senate Minority Leader (D-35), talks about issues in the New York State budget, including cracking down on sexual harassment - though the lawmakers negotiating the bills are four men (and zero women).
Tuesday Morning Politics: Bolton, Russian Expulsions, Stormy
Trump's dramatic shakeup of his national security team over the past few weeks -- with both national security adviser H.R. McMaster and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired in favor of more hawkish replacements -- has the Washington foreign policy worl
From the Bus Boycott to Black Lives Matter
Kevin Shird, once incarcerated for drug dealing turned activist and writer, and Nelson Malden, civil rights activist and barber in Montgomery, Alabama, discuss their book The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movement
Women Online
Manoush Zomorodi, host and managing editor of WNYC's Note to Self and the author of Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self (St. Martin's Press, 2017), and Stella Bugbee, president and editor-in-chief at The
Budget Crunchtime in Albany
Karen DeWitt, Capitol bureau chief for New York State Public Radio and Fred Mogul, WNYC Albany reporter, discuss the latest developments from the budget negotiations in Albany.