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 Key to Utopia
Rutger Bregman, a journalist and the author of Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Little, Brown and Company 2017), discusses how we can get to a world where we there is a universal basic income, a 15-hour work week, and open borders f
From Russia to Trump Tower
Paul Manafort lasted only a few months as Donald Trump’s unpaid campaign manager but he continues to make headlines for his political and financial ties to Russia. Ilya Marritz, WNYC reporter, and Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy f
How the NY State Budget Will Affect the City
Ben Max, executive editor of Gotham Gazette. Lawmakers are busy hammering out the final New York State budget, which is expected to be finished by the end of this week. Max talks about how it will affect New York City, including the proposed "mansion tax
Sweetening the Deal for Democrats
After the embarrassing failure of the Republicans' health care bill, President Trump's chief strategist Steven Bannon says the White House will be busy with executive orders and other policy moves this week. Tara Palmeri, POLITICO White House corresponde
Keeping Garifuna in the Bronx
The month of March marks 220 years since the Garifuna people were exiled from St. Vincent and resettled in Central and Northern America. The South Bronx is now home to the largest community outside of the Caribbean, with more than 100,000 Garifuna people
The Story of Migrant Sanctuary
Fernanda Echávarri, producer for NPR’s Latino USA, joins us to discuss her Latino USA segment about the history of the Sanctuary Movement, a grassroots movement for immigrants and refugees.
The Future of Healthcare and the Opioid Crisis
Grant Smith, deputy director of National Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance, discusses what’s at stake for the most severe drug overdose epidemic in U.S. history, as the federal government grapples with healthcare.
What You Need to Know About D.C.'s Missing Teens
Joseph Giacalone, and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and former NYPD Detective Sergeant, and Roxie Farrow, founder of The Exodus Project, discuss what we know so far about the missing persons cases in D.C. where 501 teens have been rep
Republicans Have Control, Can They Govern?
Ed O'Keefe, congressional reporter at The Washington Post, reports on the latest political news after the fall out of the Republicans' replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act. "After so many years of threatening to do something, now that Republican
Meet the Winners of the Historical Fiction Challenge
In the year of alternative facts and fake news, The Brian Lehrer Show presented a historical fiction challenge. Much like the climate of the news today, the genre of historical fiction is a mixture of hard fact and artistic license. Five weeks and fifty