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The Brian Lehrer Show

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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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New York, NY

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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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@BrianLehrer

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English

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WNYC Radio 160 Varick St. New York, NY 10013 212-433-9692


Episodes

Good Cause Eviction and New York's Housing Crisis

3/18/2024
New York State Senator Julia Salazar (D, WF-18th district) discusses New York's housing crisis and a "good cause" eviction bill she's sponsored, plus other issues in play as part of the state budget.

Duration:00:21:49

NYC's Pledge to Extend Life Expectancy

3/18/2024
Ashwin Vasan, MD, PhD, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, talks about the city's plan to increase life expectancy, which has taken a hit since COVID, including what conditions they are targeting in order to lengthen the life spans of New Yorkers.

Duration:00:32:35

Women's Rights Around the World

3/18/2024
Listeners call in to shout out stories of how women are fighting for their rights around the world.

Duration:00:13:44

Monday Morning Politics: Schumer, Netanyahu and Biden

3/18/2024
Claudia Grisales, NPR Congressional correspondent, talks about the latest national politics news, including the reverberations of Sen. Schumer's remarks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Duration:00:41:43

Speaker Adams on the State of the City

3/15/2024
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (District 28, Queens neighborhoods of Jamaica, Rochdale Village, Richmond Hill, and South Ozone Park) talks about her recent State of the City address and the work of the council.

Duration:00:23:35

1000 Wordles Later

3/15/2024
Tracy Bennett, Wordle and puzzles editor at the New York Times, talks about the celebration around the 1,000th Wordle game and offers insights into how the NYT puzzles are created and played.

Duration:00:13:26

Brian Lehrer Weekend: Women Seeking Economic Equality; Systemic Racism Explained; 1000 Wordles Later

3/15/2024
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Women Seeking Economic Equality (First) | Systemic Racism Explained (Starts at 23:57) | 1000 Wordles Later (Starts at 48:18) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

Duration:01:02:26

Jay Caspian Kang on 'The Ideology of the Internet'

3/15/2024
Jay Caspian Kang, staff writer for The New Yorker, documentary film director, and the author of The Loneliest Americans (Crown, 2021), shares his thoughts on what he calls the "ideology of the internet" and its tangible effects on culture, democracy, institutions and our day-to-day lives. → Arguing Ourselves to Death

Duration:00:27:02

How a Cease-Fire Could Work

3/15/2024
Jon Alterman, senior vice president, Zbigniew Brzezinski chair in Global Security and Geostrategy and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Khaled Elgindy, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and director of MEI’s Program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs, talk about Senator Schumer's call for elections in Israel, plus the calls for cease-fire in Gaza -- how it could wor and why it means different things to different groups.

Duration:00:46:15

Jonathan Capehart on Biden's Campaign Strategy

3/14/2024
Jonathan Capehart, associate editor at the Washington Post, host of the podcast "Capehart" and the Washington Post Live's "First Look," and host of The Saturday Show and The Sunday Show on MSNBC, talks about his interview with President Biden and other national political news.

Duration:00:46:20

Ramadan Begins

3/14/2024
Ammar Abdul Rahman, deputy imam at Masjid Al-Haram USA in the Bronx and outreach coordinator for the asylum seeker shelter program at the Interfaith Center of New York, talks about his observance of Ramadan, and his work helping Muslim asylum seekers get acclimated as they make their way to the city from West African countries.

Duration:00:28:07

Your Stories of Perfectionism

3/14/2024
Building on examples from Atlantic columnist Arthur C. Brooks, listeners share where their perfectionism shows up, tricks for getting past it, and how it affects their lives.

Duration:00:09:44

Ask Governor Murphy: March Recap

3/14/2024
Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and editor, and host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, recaps her conversation with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. Topics this month included NJ Transit, an assessment of the state's COVID response, and the Senate campaign that sees New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy vying for the Democratic nomination.

Duration:00:24:50

Your 'Malicious Compliance' Stories

3/13/2024
Inspired by the SubReddit r/MaliciousCompliance, listeners share stories in which they've conformed "to the letter, but not the spirit" of a rule or request in their lives.

Duration:00:10:40

Pres. Biden's Budget Proposal and Comparing Tax Policies

3/13/2024
Michael Graetz, professor emeritus at Columbia Law School and Yale Law School, former special counsel and deputy assistant secretary for tax policy at the Department of the Treasury and the author of The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America (Princeton University Press, 2024), offers analysis of Biden's budget proposals and tax policies and how they compare to GOP proposals.

Duration:00:31:09

TikTok's Fate in Congress

3/13/2024
The House voted to ban TikTok this morning. Drew Harwell, Washington Post technology reporter, talks about the reasons for the bill and what happens next with the popular social media app should the bill make it through the Senate.

Duration:00:27:08

Reporters Ask the Mayor: From the National Guard to Pickpocket Crews

3/13/2024
Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week's event, plus other city news from the week.

Duration:00:40:42

Women Seeking Economic Equality

3/12/2024
On Equal Pay Day, Josie Cox, business journalist and the author of Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality (Harry N. Abram, 2024), shares the story of women who contributed to the fight for financial equality.

Duration:00:23:31

The Millennial 'Micro-Generation'

3/12/2024
Jeanna Smialek, reporter covering the Federal Reserve and the economy for The New York Times and the author of Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis (Knopf, 2023), reports on a "massive microgeneration" of people born in 1990 and 1991, arguing they have been in a in lifelong competition for America’s economic resources.

Duration:00:17:11

Comparing Biden and Trump on Climate Change

3/12/2024
Scott Waldman, White House reporter focused on climate change at Politico's E&E News, compares President Biden's record on climate with former President Trump's, and shares what Trump says he will do, if he is elected, regarding energy and climate change.

Duration:00:43:30