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: 172 days 7 hours 59 minutes
State-Sponsored 'Hacktivism'
George Lucas, a visiting distinguished research professor at the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology & Values at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Ethics and Cyber Warfare: The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digit
Kellyanne Conway and the First Family of Retail
Heather Timmons, White House correspondent for Quartz, talks about the ethical violations of Kellyanne Conway promoting Ivanka Trump's brand.
The Yemen Quagmire
Jon Finer, former director of policy planning at the U.S. Department of State and chief of staff to Secretary of State John Kerry, and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, staff writer for The Washington Post and a former Marine infantryman, argue that it's a mistake fo
#AskTheMayor: Snow Day Mechanics, Sanctuary for Low-Level Offenses, NYPD Body Cameras by 2019
Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
Albany Debates Sanctuary Cities
Brian M. Kolb, New York State Assembly Minority Leader (R) representing the 131st district, and Martin J. Golden, New York State Senator (R) representing Brooklyn's 22nd district, discuss the sanctuary city debate taking place in Albany.
David Miliband on Trump's Travel Ban
David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, discusses the latest on the travel ban, arguing for both the moral and the logical case against the ban. "It goes to big questions about us...on our common humanity," @DMiliband on
History Repeats Itself as Trump Wages War with Press
Ron Rosenbaum, American literary journalist, literary critic and novelist, and author of, most recently, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil (Da Capo Press, 2014), discusses his latest piece in the LA Review of Books, Against Norma
Historical Fiction Challenge
In the year of alternative facts, and fake news, The Brian Lehrer Show presents 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. Here’s the idea: Bel
Judge Wilkinson on the Legacy of 1960s
J. Harvie Wilkinson III, federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and author of All Falling Faiths: Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s (Encounter Books, 2017, makes the case that we've never healed from
Washington State AG Takes on Department of Justice
Hear Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson talk about his case against President Trump's immigration ban.