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
Dispatches From the White House
Josh Dawsey, White House Reporter with Politico, formerly a NYC City Hall reporter with the Wall Street Journal, talk the latest in national politics including the latest news from the first week inside the White House.
#AskTheMayor: Staten Island Edition
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners in Staten Island and discusses his preliminary budget for 2018 including his new ferry plan, wage increases for city employees, and more during our weekly #AskTheMayor segment. @BrianLehrer #A
How NYC Plans to Scale Trump's Wall
Juan Manuel Benítez, NY1 Noticias reporter and host of Pura Politica, discusses the Spanish language press reaction to Trump's executive orders on the border wall, plans to tax remittances that some immigrants send back to their countries, and the buildin
The Expected Order To Ban Muslim Refugees
Zahra Billoo, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Melanie Nezer, HIAS VP Policy and Advocacy, discusses the women's march and President Trump's plans to block refugees from several Muslim-majority countries from entering
The Business Case for Workplace Equality
Sallie Krawcheck, CEO of Ellevest, an innovative digital investment platform designed to help women reach their financial goals, and author of Own It: The Power of Women at Work, offers women a new set of rules for professional success.
World Order 2.0
Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order, discusses why the world needs to rethink many of the apparatus that have dictated global operations,
Extra Work Black People Do
Rebecca Carroll, producer of a series of projects on race at WNYC, and Kevin Young, poet and Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, preview their upcoming micro-conversation at The Schomburg Center: That Extra Work We Do As Black
The 'Global Gag' Rule
Francoise Girard, president of the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), discusses President Donald Trump’s executive order, which reactivated what critics call a global gag rule, banning international NGOs that receive U.S. funding from prov
What's Changed for Trump Voters
Arlie Hochschild, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and a finalist for the National Book Award for her book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (New Press, 2016), discusses her reporting o
Mayor's New Budget Does Not Include Trump Specifics
Brigid Bergin, City Hall and politics reporter for WNYC, discusses Mayor Bill de Blasio's $84.7 billion proposed budget for next year, which does not include provisions to deal with fallout from Trump administration policies.