The Brian Lehrer Show

Avi Melamed, fellow of Intelligence and Middle East Affairs at the Eisenhower Institute, former Israeli intelligence official and senior advisor on Arab Affairs in Jerusalem, and the author of Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous an

If you want a brief history of presidents, campaigns, and the health insurance debate, listen to the first 10 minutes or so of the segment above. You'll hear Lyndon B. Johnson signing medicare into law in 1965, Bill Clinton asking for Congress' support i

Jim Dwyer, author of the New York Times "About New York" column, makes the argument that Mayor Bill de Blasio and his associates are being investigated for campaign finance tactics that are commonplace but rarely result in criminal probes. Dwyer said the

Melinda Henneberger, editor-in-chief of Roll Call and former senior writer at Bloomberg Politics, talks about what's next for the frontrunners and their remaining opponents after Tuesday's results. Henneberger said it's "mathematically impossible" for Be

Until recently, pregnant women had to undergo amniocentesis, a risky procedure, to see if their fetus was at high risk for Down Syndrome. Now, a routine blood test gives these women the same information. Mary Harris, WNYC host of Only Human, and Dr. Mary

A public poll in the UK didn't go as planned. The British government has pushed back against the internet's choice to name an expensive research vessel "Boaty McBoatface." So what does this say about the false promise of democracy?  Uri Friedman, staff w

"The government of Honduras has failed to protect her." Honduran environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres was murdered in her home on March 3rd. Amnesty International's advocacy director for the Americas Marselha Goncalves Margerin said

"It's complicated." That's the title of a recent episode of the WNYC podcast about gentrification: There Goes the Neighborhood. Kai Wright, host of the podcast and features editor at The Nation, and DW Gibson, one of the podcast's reporters, talk about s

Susan Page, Washington Bureau chief of USA TODAY, talks about how voters in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Rhode Island voted and what that means for the campaigns going forward. "Donald Trump has turned out to be a pretty good fit fo

Dick Dadey, executive director of the watchdog group Citizens Union, explains the different Board of Election in New York State and City, how members get their jobs, what they do and how they could be reformed. The State Board of Elections is an independ