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Pets in the City: 'The Dogist' Talks Dogs

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2025/10/15

Throughout this membership drive we are talking about the animals we love and care for in our homes -- our pets. Today, Elias Weiss Friedman, aka @TheDogist on Instagram, author of This Dog Will Change Your Life (Ballantine, 2025) and host of a new YouTube talk show, "Dogs with Elias Weiss Friedman," talks about the dogs he's met and why he thinks they make us better humans.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: Moving Local NYC Elections to...

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2025/10/15

Brigid Bergin, Gothamist and WNYC senior political correspondent, talks about the proposal that NYC voters will see on this year's ballot that would move local elections to take place during presidential election years.

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Trump's Diplomatic Success; Mayoral Debate Preview;...

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2025/10/15

Loading... On today's show: David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and the host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, talks about the latest national political news, and previews this year's New Yorker festival. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, talks about the latest news from the mayoral campaign as Election Day is just weeks away. Listeners hear a description of a place in the tri-state area and try to guess where it is. Brigid Bergin, Gothamist and WNYC senior political correspondent,

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Wednesday Morning Politics: Trump's Diplomatic...

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2025/10/15

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and the host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, talks about the latest national political news, and previews this year's New Yorker festival.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: Rikers Island; The Latest on...

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2025/10/14

Loading... On today's show: Elizabeth Glazer, founder of the journal Vital City and former director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, talks about the challenges the next mayor will face regarding Rikers Island, and what each says about the current plan to close Rikers in favor of borough-based jails. On Saturday, the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of hundreds of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were mistakenly fired the day

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Coffee Prices Up and Up

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2025/10/14

Listeners share whether they're seeing higher coffee prices due to tariffs yet and if that's changing their caffeine habits.

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Tentative Hope for Gaza and Israel

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2025/10/14

Graeme Wood, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State, offers analysis of the current ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, and why one Palestinian philosopher told him he feels a "paradoxical optimism" that the current peace will hold.

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The Latest on The Firings at the CDC

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2025/10/14

On Saturday, the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of hundreds of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were mistakenly fired the day before. Apoorva Mandavilli, science and global health reporter at The New York Times, explains what happened and who remains at the CDC.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: Rikers Island

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2025/10/14

Elizabeth Glazer, founder of the journal Vital City and former director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, talks about the challenges the next mayor will face regarding Rikers Island, and what each says about the current plan to close Rikers in favor of borough-based jails.

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NJ Education Culture Wars; Trump DOJ Indicts NY AG;...

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2025/10/13

Loading... On today's show: New Jersey State Senator Andrew Zwicker (D, District 16) and Assemblymember Dawn Fantasia (R, District 24) discuss the hot-button issues in education and how they are playing out in the governor's race, including parents' rights, book bans and more. Elie Honig, senior legal analyst at CNN, New York Magazine columnist, former state and federal prosecutor and author of several books, including When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ’s Pursuit of the President, From

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What Comes Next for Israel and Gaza?

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2025/10/13

Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many nonfiction books and his latest, a novel, A Capital Calamity (Miniver Press, 2024), offers analysis on what comes next for Israel and Gaza as Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners were released, and the ceasefire deal takes effect.

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Trump DOJ Indicts NY AG

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2025/10/13

Elie Honig, senior legal analyst at CNN, New York Magazine columnist, former state and federal prosecutor and author of several books, including When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ’s Pursuit of the President, From Nixon to Trump (Harper, 2025) offers legal analysis of the Trump DOJ case against New York Attorney General Tish James.

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Indigenous Peoples' Story

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2025/10/13

Julian Brave NoiseCat, writer, filmmaker and student of Salish art and history and the author of We Survived the Night (Knopf, 2025) talks about his new book, the story of North American indigenous people through his reporting and his own story, all in the style of a traditional "coyote story."

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30 Issues in 30 Days: Education Culture Wars

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2025/10/13

New Jersey State Senator Andrew Zwicker (D, District 16) and New Jersey Assemblymember Dawn Fantasia (R, District 24) debate the hot-button issues in education and how they are playing out in the governor's race, including parents' rights, book bans and more.

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Brian Lehrer Weekend: Schools & the Mayor's Race;...

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2025/10/11

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.30 Issues in 30 Days: New York City Schools (First) | Who is María Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Price Winner? (Starts at 1:12) | From Railroad to Rail-Trail (Starts at 1:50)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: Fighting Anti-Semitism and...

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2025/10/10

Loading...On today's show: Daisy Khan, founder and executive director of the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE) and the author of Born with Wings: The Spiritual Journey of a Modern Muslim Woman (Spiegel & Grau, 2018), and Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, discuss how to fight both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia at a time of polarization over the Mideast in the context of concrete policy proposals from the New York City mayoral

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30 Issues in 30 Days: Fighting Anti-Semitism and...

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2025/10/10

Daisy Khan, founder and executive director of the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE) and the author of 30 Rights of Muslim Women: A Trusted Guide (Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2024), and Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, discuss how to fight both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia at a time of polarization over the Mideast in the context of concrete policy proposals from the New York City mayoral candidates, Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani and

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Who is María Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Price Winner?

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2025/10/10

Gideon Rose, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the former editor of Foreign Affairs and author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, 2010), talks about María Corina Machado, who was announced as the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, and related news of the day.

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Grandparenting as Paid Labor?

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2025/10/10

Marina Lopes, author of Please Yell at My Kids (GCP/Balance, 2025), talks about her story in The Atlantic suggesting American parents look at the way childcare works in Singapore where grandparents are frequently primary caregivers and get paid for the work.

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New Jersey Gubernatorial Debate Recap; 30 Issues in...

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2025/10/09

Loading... On today's show: Nancy Solomon, host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, recaps the final governor's debate between Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli. Michael Tannousis, assemblymember representing District 64, including southern Brooklyn and the east shore of Staten Island, and Insha Rahman, director of Vera Action, cover what each New York City mayoral hopeful is proposing when it comes to criminal justice reform, including the 2019 bail reform

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