The Brian Lehrer Show

Alex Morris, contributing editor at New York Magazine and Rolling Stone, talks about her reporting which looks at parents trying to raise their children without assigning a gender based on sex, following their kids' leads when they begin to express one g

Time Magazine editor-at-large Karl Vick talks about his interview of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, and whether he is serious about reform. MBS (as he's sometimes called) has taken over the kingdom -- his father is nominally in ch

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC, including the fatal police shooting of Saheed Vassell in Crown Heights; the proposed BQX light-rail (still happening, despite reporting to the contrary); the go

Willa Paskin, TV critic for Slate, and Jared Yates Sexton, professor and author -- most recently -- of The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, talk about whether "Roseanne" has anything meaningful to say ab

Jordan Weissmann, Slate's chief economics writer, and Devin Leonard, Bloomberg Businessweek writer and the author of Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service (Grove Press, 2017), discuss President Trump's tweet which claimed t

Bill Lipton, New York State director of the Working Families Party, and Jessica Ramos, candidate for New York State Senate District 13, who is running against former IDC member Jose Peralta, comment on the reported dissolution of the Independent Democrat

Yvette Clarke, U.S. Representative (D-NY 9) representing Crown Heights and other Central Brooklyn neighborhoods, and Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Representative (NY-8), discuss the national political news of the day -- including the president's recent tweets on

Natasha Simone Alexenko, the founder and CEO of Natasha's Justice Project (NJP) and the author of A Survivor's Journey: From Victim to Advocate (Amazon Publishing, 2018), tells her story and talks about her work to draw attention to the nationwide backlo

Cornel West, professor at Harvard University, author of books including Race Matters and Black Prophetic Fire and contributor to To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2018),

Ken Lovett, Albany bureau chief for The Daily News, and Josh Nathan-Kazis, staff writer for The Forward, talk about the news that the group of breakaway Democrats who caucus with the Republicans in Albany, known as the Independent Democratic Conference,