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100 Years of 100 Things: Best Sellers

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2025/05/21

As our centennial series continues, Tina Jordan, deputy editor of The New York Times Book Review, and a co-editor of The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History (Clarkson Potter, 2021), looks at the history of best-selling books and what that says out the past century of American culture.

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10-Question Quiz: City Critters

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2025/05/21

Listeners try their hand at a quiz about the critters that live in the city.

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Rep. Pallone on GOP Budget Bill & Medicaid; Clean...

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2025/05/20

Loading... On today's show: On Sunday, House Republicans released their package of proposals that would cut federal spending on Medicaid and Obamacare. U.S. Representative Frank Pallone (D NJ 6th), ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, discusses what's in the bill, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says would cause 8.6 million Americans to lose their health insurance. The Republican House spending bill seeks to cut some of the clean energy tax incentives in

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Summer Culture Calendar: Classical Music

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2025/05/20

Catch up with the summer cultural calendar with this pledge-drive miniseries. Today, Elliott Forrest, midday host of WQXR, reviews some of the classical music highlights of the summer season.

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10-Question Quiz: New York Movies

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2025/05/20

Listeners try their hand at quiz questions about iconic movies set in New York City.

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SCOTUS Takes on Birthright Citizenship and More

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2025/05/20

Nin Totenberg, NPR legal affairs correspondent, offers her analysis of the arguments the Supreme Court justices heard last week on birthright citizenship, and nationwide injunctions.

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GOP Bill Seeks to Roll Back Clean Energy

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2025/05/20

The Republican House spending bill seeks to cut some of the clean energy tax incentives in the former Biden administration’s 2022 climate law. Kelsey Brugger, reporter covering energy and climate politics on Capitol Hill for Politico's E&E News, breaks down her reporting and explains why some Republicans lawmakers are urging leaders to spare credits that benefit clean energy projects in red states.

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GOP Bill Goes After Medicaid

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2025/05/20

On Sunday, House Republicans released their package of proposals that would cut federal spending on Medicaid and Obamacare. U.S. Representative Frank Pallone (D NJ 6th), ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, discusses what's in the bill, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says would cause 8.6 million Americans to lose their health insurance.

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The Rule of Law vs. Autocracy; WNYC and Gothamist...

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2025/05/19

Loading... Coming up on today's show: Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), offers legal analysis of the Supreme Court decision to continue to prohibit the Trump Administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan

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100 Years of 100 Things: New York Films

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2025/05/19

As our centennial series continues, James Sanders, architect, author, filmmaker, and co-writer with Ric Burns of the PBS series "New York: A Documentary Film" and its companion volume, New York: An Illustrated History (Knopf, 2021) and the author of Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies (Knopf, 2001), talks about the New York seen in films since the beginning of movie-making.

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10-Question Quiz: Who Said That?

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2025/05/19

Listeners listen to an iconic or otherwise interesting quote by a famous person in politics or from history and try to guess "who said that?"

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WNYC and Gothamist Get Pulitzer Recognition for...

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2025/05/19

New York State's Adult Survivors Act brought a flood of lawsuits against the city by women who say they were abused at Rosie's (the women's jail) on Rikers Island. Jessy Edwards, writer and editor for Hell Gate, and Christopher Werth, senior editor at WNYC and Gothamist focusing on investigations, talk about their reporting on serial sexual abuse at the jail, which was recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting.

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Supreme Court on Alien Enemies Act and More

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/05/19

Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), offers legal analysis of the Supreme Court decision to continue to prohibit the Trump Administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, and shares her take on how

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Summer Culture Calendar: Outdoor Theater

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2025/05/19

Catch up with the summer cultural calendar with this pledge-drive miniseries. Today, Adam Feldman, national theater and dance editor and chief theater critic at Time Out New York, talks about the reopening of the Delacorte Theater in Central Park and other summer theater coming up this summer. "Free outdoor theater this summer in New York" (TONY, 5/19/25)

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Impacts of NEA Grant Cuts; Jonathan Capehart's Self...

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2025/05/16

Loading...On today's show: Brian Boucher, contributor for Artnet News and journalist covering the New York art world, talks about how arts organizations are reacting to the Trump administration's grant funding cuts from the National Endowment for the Arts. Jonathan Capehart, associate editor at The Washington Post, co-host of the morning edition of The Weekend on MSNBC, contributor, PBS NewsHour and author of Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home (Grand Central Publishing,

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Citizenship Quiz: American History and Geography

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2025/05/16

In order to become a naturalized citizen of the United States, applicants must pass an oral civics exam. Listeners call in to try their hand at some of the questions on the test, related to American history and geography and symbols.

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Gary Cohen Previews the Subway Series

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2025/05/16

The Mets and the Yankees -- who both sit at the top of their respective divisions -- will meet for a subway series this week. Gary Cohen, Mets announcer, previews the games, and talks about what it's like calling games for the Mets, currently one of the best teams in baseball.

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Summer Culture Calendar: Art All Around

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/05/16

Catch up with the summer cultural calendar with this pledge-drive miniseries. Today, Ryan Kailath, WNYC/Gothamist arts and culture reporter, talks about some of the art on view this summer in local museums, galleries and public spaces.

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Jonathan Capehart's Self Discovery

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2025/05/16

Jonathan Capehart, associate editor at The Washington Post, co-host of the morning edition of The Weekend on MSNBC, contributor, PBS NewsHour and author of Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home (Grand Central Publishing, 2025), talks about his personal new book, which includes stories from his upbringing and his early career at WNYC, plus the latest national political news.

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Impacts of NEA Grant Cuts

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2025/05/16

Brian Boucher, contributor for Artnet News and journalist covering the New York art world, talks about how arts organizations are reacting to the Trump administration starting to cut their grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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