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 28 minutes
Brooke Gladstone: "Trump Shattered Reality"
Brooke Gladstone, host and managing editor of WNYC's On the Media and the author of The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time (Workman Publishing Company, 2017), talks about fake news, post-truth, and why reality itself has becom
HIV Related Stigma Is Still a Problem
Tobin Low, co-host of the WNYC podcast Nancy, and David Gebel, who does admin work for Radiolab at The Takeaway at WNYC, talk about WNYC's new(ish) podcast Nancy, and the latest episode, which looks at living with HIV/AIDS then and now.
WannaCry Ransomware and What To Do
Paul Wagenseil, cyber editor at Tom's Guide, discusses the latest WannaCry Ransomware attack and offers advice. "This is a cyber criminal effort, entirely for financial gain," said Wagenseil. "You pay [the ransom to release your data] to a BitCoin addres
How the Healthcare System Compensates Physicians Is All Wrong
Robert Pearl, physician, executive director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group and the author of Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care — And Why We're Usually Wrong (PublicAffairs, 2017), talks about American healthcare and says t
Publicly Criticizing While Quietly Voting With Trump
Philip Bump, writer for The Washington Post's politics blog, The Fix, discusses the latest political news, including whether or not there are actual tapes from the Oval Office that could be subpoenaed, and how Republican Senators are publicly criticizing
NJ Governor's Race: Raymond Lesniak
Raymond Lesniak, State Senator from Union County who has served in the state Legislature since 1978 and a veteran attorney, makes his case to be the next governor of New Jersey ahead of the June 6 primary and discusses his political priorities, including
Bringing Ethics to Economics
Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-winning economist, Lamont University professor, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University and the author of Collective Choice and Social Welfare: An Expanded Edition (Harvard University Press, 2017), revisits hi
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Smells Like Watergate, Einstein's 'Genius,' '13 Reasons Why' Triggers Teens
In case you missed them, hear three of our favorite segments from the week: Smells Like Watergate (First) | Einstein's 'Genius' (Starts at 22:43) | '13 Reasons Why' Triggers Teens (Starts at 45:01) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTu
NJ Governor's Race: Phil Murphy
Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive, former US Ambassador to Germany and now a Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey, talks about his campaign to be the next governor of New Jersey, ahead of the June 6 primary. "I'm a complete outside
Our Foreign Affairs in Syria, Korea and Afghanistan
Fred Kaplan, Slate's “war stories” columnist and the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Simon & Schuster, 2016), discusses President Trump's approach to Syrian Kurds (very different from Turkey's Erdogan) and North Korea (very