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With less than 24 hours before the polls open, hear how the Democrats are winding down their New York campaigning with POLITICO New York's Azi Paybarah, MTV News senior political correspondent Ana Marie Cox, and Slate's Jacob Weisberg. @BrianLehrer sande

One week down, 29 to go! The Brian Lehrer Show is counting down to Election Day with #30Issues in 30 Weeks, a week-by-week exploration of important topics that are shaping your candidates and your vote. And we kicked it off with something light: is it ti

The candidates made it clear that they're fighting for New Yorkers' votes at last night's tense (and at times loud) Brooklyn debate. We assembled an all-star team of local political reporters for a day-after breakdown: Errol Louis, political anchor and h

As blue-collar jobs shift require more technical training, Katherine Newman, professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University and the co-author of Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century (Metropolitan Books, 2016) argues for t

A few of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. James Brown’s Legacy (First) | A Poetry Assignment (Starts at 13:50) | A History of Big Banks (Starts at 29:40) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do t

To wrap up Week 1 of our #30Issues in 30 Weeks series, Barney Frank, a former U.S. Congressman (D-MA) and the author of Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), looks back at The Dodd–Frank

Trump makes many people feel a lot of things these days, but for New Yorkers there will always be one extra ingredient: nostalgia. Dean Mullaney, editor, publisher, designer, and author of Rotten to the Core Trading Cards: The Best and Worst of New York

It turns out that attack ads, while much maligned, actually perform a measurable and valuable service to voters. David Redlawsk, professor of political science at the Eagleton Institute’s Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University and Kyle

We're celebrating National Poetry Month by bringing four recent Pulitzer Prize winners who teach in the area on the show to give "master classes" and weekly assignments. Have you done your homework for this week? Check out the assignment here. This week'

Bernie Sanders was very much in his element Wednesday, joining Verizon workers as they went on strike.  "Brothers and sisters!" he shouted to a picket line in Brooklyn. "Thank you for your courage in standing up for justice against corporate greed!” The