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The Brian Lehrer Show

Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.

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00:30:47

20 Years of Freakonomics

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/26

Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio and the co-author of Freakonomics (Harper Collins, 2025), now in a new 20th anniversary edition, reflects on 20 years of "Freakonomics," its impact and use of data, and talks about what's next.

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00:45:31

City Politics: Mamdani's Transition Plans Continue

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/26

Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, talks about the latest news from Mayor-elect Mamdani's transition plans.

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00:09:55

Shop Listener is Back for 2025

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/26

Shop Listener is back for the 2025 holiday season. Listeners call in to shout out their businesses that sell gifts for the holiday season.

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00:22:12

The Trump Administration's Incomplete View of...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/26

President Trump and his allies are framing recent kidnappings and attacks in Nigeria as Islamic assaults on Christians, even threatening military intervention. NPR international correspondent Emmanuel Akinwotu explains what’s truly behind the violence, how it’s being portrayed in Washington, and why the situation is more complex than a religious conflict.

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00:12:05

Music and Nature With Yo-Yo Ma

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/25

Ana González, host of WNYC's new podcast (with Yo-Yo Ma) Our Common Nature, talks about the new podcast she hosts where Yo-Yo Ma travels around the country and collaborates with musicians in nature. Plus, they talk about the pictures people have sent in of their favorite places in nature.

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00:27:17

Philanthropy for Literature and Jazz

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/25

Elizabeth Alexander, president of The Mellon Foundation, poet, educator, memoirist and scholar and the author of The Trayvon Generation (Grand Central Publishing, 2022), talks about the Mellon Foundation's new grants and funding for literary arts and jazz musicians, and why money for the arts from the nonprofit sector is crucial.

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00:27:15

Why Bombing 'Drug Boats' Will Do Nothing to Solve...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/25

David Herzberg, professor of history and director of the drugs, health and society program at the University at Buffalo, offers his take on the fentanyl crisis, and why he says President Trump is wrong about almost every aspect of it.

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00:41:26

RFK Jr.'s Mission

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/25

Michael Scherer, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about his cover story on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and other news.

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00:25:17

Monday Morning Politics with Leader Jeffries

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/24

Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Representative (D NY-8th, Brooklyn) and House minority leader, offers his take on how the meeting between President Trump and Mayor-elect Mamdani went, and more national political news.

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00:31:23

Mayor-Elect Mamdani's Meeting With President Trump

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/24

Jeffery Mays, New York Times metro politics reporter, recaps Mayor-elect Mamdani's Friday meeting at the White House with President Trump, where the two spoke well of each other and pledged to work together.

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00:10:23

Ten Years of Hamilton on Broadway

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/24

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton premiered ten years ago and pretty much immediately became a phenomenon. Frank DiLella, Spectrum News NY1 theater correspondent and host of “On Stage”talks about the hit play and its affect on Broadway and more.

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00:31:25

1776's No Kings

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/24

Edward Larson, chaired professor of history and law at Pepperdine University and the author of Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025) talks about the change in thinking 250 years ago in the American colonies from British subjects protesting the crown to revolution.

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00:10:45

Why Was President Trump So Friendly to Mayor-Elect...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/24

After President Trump and Mayor-Elect Mamdani's curiously friendly meeting this past Friday, listeners call in to share their theories as to why the president was all smiles with New York's incoming democratic socialist mayor, whom the president has called a communist many times in the past.

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00:59:38

Brian Lehrer Weekend: Climate & Gov. Hochul; G20...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/22

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Climate Advocates Are Angry at Gov. Hochul (First) | The First G20 Summit on African Soil (Starts at 23) | De-Cluttering Legacies (Starts at 45)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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00:24:05

'We Hold These Truths...'

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/21

As the U.S. approaches its 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson, professor of history at Tulane and the author of several books, including his latest, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written (Simon & Schuster, 2025), digs in on a key sentence in the Declaration of Independence and how its reverberated throughout the country's history.

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00:41:13

Friday Morning Politics: Trump and Mamdani Meet

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/21

Jonathan Lemire, co-host of Morning Joe on MSNOW; writer for MSNOW and contributing writer to The Atlantic talks about the national political news of the week, including Mayor-elect Mamdani's meeting with President Trump at the White House.

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00:14:21

De-Cluttering Legacies

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/21

Emily Stewart, senior correspondent at Business Insider, talks about navigating issues around what to do with all the 'stuff' that boomer parents will be leaving their millennial kids.

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00:28:54

Defending 'Raise the Age'

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/21

Vincent Schiraldi, Pinkerton Foundation visiting fellow and former New York City Commissioner of both the Department of Correction and Department of Probation, argues against trying teenagers as adults and defends New York's "Raise the Age" law against pushback from some elected leaders.

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00:22:20

NYC School Bus Woes

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/20

Jessica Gould, education reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, shares her reporting on how the city's school bus system has been failing the families who rely on it, and if reform is possible.

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00:15:20

Feeding Senior Neighbors

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/11/20

One in 10 senior citizens in New York City lack reliable access to affordable and nutritious food. Beth Shapiro, CEO of Citymeals on Wheels, the nation’s largest operation to deliver meals to homebound seniors, discusses the state of elder hunger in the city, the lasting impact of federal funding cuts and the long federal shutdown, what everyday New Yorkers can do to support their elderly neighbors during the holidays.

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