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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Apr 26, 2024
A Harsh Critique of President Biden on Gaza
00:24:30
Nicholas Kristof, opinion columnist for The New York Times and author of several books, including the forthcoming memoir Chasing Hope (Penguin Random House, 2024), shares gaza-war.html">his critique of how he says President Biden has mishandled the United States' role in Israel's war in Gaza, what he sees as Biden's reasoning, the political implications and what the United States could do moving forward to end the war.
Apr 26, 2024
A National Poetry Month Open-Mic
00:14:59
For National Poetry Month, we open up the phones for listeners to recite lines from their favorite poems.
Apr 26, 2024
A #PlasticsChallenge Wrap Up
00:26:17
Listeners call in to share an honest assessment of the single-use plastics in their lives andJudith Enck, founder of Beyond Plastics, professor at Bennington College and former EPA Region 2 administrator, rides along to share tips and trick on how to reduce plastic use.
Apr 26, 2024
Explaining the Demand to 'Divest'
00:17:42
Claire Thornton, USA Today breaking news reporter, talks about the calls by pro-Palestinian student protesters for their colleges and universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel.
Apr 26, 2024
Your Arab-American Immigration Stories
00:26:00
In honor of National Arab American Heritage Month,Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a non-profit, nonpartisan, national civil rights advocacy organization,comes back on the show to tick through the long timeline of Arab-American immigration (and migration around the country), which shows the diversity of the community and where they landed throughout the country.
Apr 25, 2024
Special Coverage: Trump's Immunity Case Before the Supreme Court
00:21:22
On today's show:
Melissa Murray, NYU law professor, co-host of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast and the co-author (with Andrew Weissmann) of The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024), previews the oral arguments the Supreme Court will hear on former President Trump's immunity case.
Apr 24, 2024
News From Your Classroom
00:11:34
With teachers and students off of school this week, we open up the phones to hear stories from local classrooms that would otherwise be missed if not for the vacation.
Apr 24, 2024
Reporters Ask the Mayor: Arrests on Campuses; Randy Mastro
00:32:00
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, including when the NYPD intervenes on campus protests and the pushback on his reported selection of attorney Randy Mastro to lead NYC's legal department.
Apr 24, 2024
Reframing 'Free' Beyond Markets
00:34:59
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, university professor at Columbia University, chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute, and author of The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W.W.Norton, 2024), argues the neoliberal idea of freedom has led to economic crises and social unrest and argues for a more humane, 21st-century reframing of the concept.
Apr 24, 2024
The Trump 'Hush Money' Trial, So Far
00:30:35
Erica Orden, Politico reporter, talks about the media diets of the jurors on the Trump "hush money" trial. Plus, she recaps the testimony of David Pecker, the former publisher for the National Enquirer, who talked about that publication's "catch and kill" strategy, which suppressed negative stories about people like Donald Trump.
Apr 26 | 00:24:30
A Harsh Critique of President Biden on Gaza
Apr 26 | 00:14:59
A National Poetry Month Open-Mic
Apr 26 | 00:26:17
A #PlasticsChallenge Wrap Up
Apr 26 | 00:17:42
Explaining the Demand to 'Divest'
Apr 26 | 00:26:00
Your Arab-American Immigration Stories
Apr 25 | 00:21:22
Special Coverage: Trump's Immunity Case Before the Supreme Court
Apr 24 | 00:11:34
News From Your Classroom
Apr 24 | 00:32:00
Reporters Ask the Mayor: Arrests on Campuses; Randy Mastro
Apr 24 | 00:34:59
Reframing 'Free' Beyond Markets
Apr 24 | 00:30:35
The Trump 'Hush Money' Trial, So Far
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