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The Latest on Columbia University; NPR and PBS in the...

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2025/03/27

Loading... Coming up on today's show: Columbia University agreed to the Trump administration's demands in order to restore $400 million dollars in federal funds, leading some faculty members to protest, and take legal action. David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic and an author of The Atlantic daily newsletter, plus author of the forthcoming book The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2025), reports on the latest in the school's relationship with

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Elie Mystal's List of Laws that Need to Go

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2025/03/27

Elie Mystal, justice correspondent and columnist for The Nation magazine and host of the podcast, Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal, and author of Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America (The New Press, 2025), talks about the 10 laws he calls a "Bill of Wrongs" - like felony murder and immunity for gun manufacturers. EVENT: Elie will be in conversation with Christina Greer at the Center for Brooklyn History, tonight, Thursday, 3/27, at 6:30pm. More details here.

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NPR and PBS in the Congressional Hot Seat

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2025/03/27

The leaders of PBS and NPR went before a House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to defend their networks against charges of liberal bias. Bill Grueskin, professor at Columbia Journalism School and a former senior editor at The Wall Street Journal and Miami Herald, offers analysis of the testy hearing.

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The Latest on Columbia University and the Trump...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/03/27

Columbia University agreed to the Trump administration's demands in order to restore $400 million dollars in federal funds, leading some faculty members to protest, and take legal action. David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic and an author of the Atlantic daily newsletter, plus author of the forthcoming book The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2025), reports on the latest in the school's relationship with the administration, and what it might mean

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Meet the NJ Gov Candidate: Mikie Sherrill; Reporters...

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2025/03/26

Loading... On today's show: U.S. Representative Mikie Sherrill (D, NJ-11) talks about her campaign to be the Democratic nominee for governor of New Jersey, and her work in Washington. 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 various aspects of the mayoral campaign. As our centennial series continues, Clay Risen, New

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Meet the NJ Governor Candidates: Mikie Sherrill

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2025/03/26

U.S. Representative Mikie Sherrill (D, NJ-11) talks about her campaign to be the Democratic nominee for governor of New Jersey, and her work in Washington.

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100 Years of 100 Things: Preppies and Their Clothes

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2025/03/26

Polo shirts, khaki shorts, and boat shoes: the classic uniform of elites on their days off. As our centennial series continues, Avery Trufelman, host of the podcast Articles of Interest, delves into the last 100 years of preppies and their clothes.

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100 Years of 100 Things: McCarthyism

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2025/03/26

As our centennial series continues, Clay Risen, New York Times reporter and the author of Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America (Scribner, 2025), goes through the history of the Cold War-era struggle inside the US between the FDR progressives and social conservatives and how it continues to reverberate.

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Reporters Ask the Mayor: Campaigning, Cuomo and Randy...

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2025/03/26

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 various aspects of the mayoral campaign and his recent appointment of Randy Mastro as a deputy mayor.

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How MAGA Runs the House; Albany Budget Crunch-Time;...

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2025/03/25

Loading... On today's show: Annie Karni, congressional correspondent for The New York Times, and Luke Broadwater, White House reporter for The New York Times and the co-author (with Karni) of Mad House: How Donald Trump, Maga Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby and a Man with Rats in his Walls Broke Congress (Random House, 2025), talk about their new book about dysfunctional House Republicans, and how their reporting on them informs how the GOP-led Congress is mostly

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Climate Activism After the $667 Million Greenpeace...

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2025/03/25

A recent legal judgment could force Greenpeace to pay $667 million in defamation and vandalism-related damages, from the 2016 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, leading environmentalists to worry that the ruling could have a chilling effect on climate activism. Michael Gerrard, professor of law at Columbia Law School and the founder and faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, shares his legal analysis of the case, and what it could mean for the environment.

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RFK's 'Hands Off' Approach To Bird Flu

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2025/03/25

Apoorva Mandavilli, reporter for The New York Times, focusing on science and global health, discusses the government's approach to Bird Flu, and why veterinary scientists say that RFK Jr.'s approach (letting the infection burn through flocks to identify birds with high immunity) will likely cost more than it helps.

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Albany Budget Crunch-Time

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2025/03/25

Jimmy Vielkind, New York State Issues reporter for WNYC and author of the substack "Notes from Jimmy", talks about the status of budget negotiations ahead of the April 1 deadline, the possibility of a mask ban, and federal funding that's included in the forecasts.

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How MAGA Runs the House

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2025/03/25

New York Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni and White House reporter Luke Broadwater, co-authors of Mad House: How Donald Trump, Maga Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby and a Man with Rats in his Walls Broke Congress (Random House, 2025), discuss their new book about dysfunctional House Republicans—and the extent to which the GOP-led Congress has provided a rubber stamp to President Trump's agenda.

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Columbia Agrees To Trump's Demands

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2025/03/24

On Friday, Columbia University's administration agreed to demands from the Trump administration over the institution's responses to pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Columbia faculty members Joseph Howley, associate professor of classics, followed by Ester Fuchs, professor of international and public affairs and political science, weigh in. Then, senior editor Sarah Brown and staff reporter Kate Bellows, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, bring their reporting on the situation at Columbia and

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Call Your Senator: Sen. Andy Kim; Why Trump Sent...

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2025/03/24

Loading... On today's show: U.S. Senator Andy Kim (D NJ) talks about his work in the Senate and the issues in New Jersey. Last week, Americans learned that ICE sent 238 Venezuelan migrants to the CECOT mega prison in El Salvador under the unsubstantiated pretense that all were members of the Tren de Aragua gang. Annie Correal, reporter at the New York Times, shares her reporting on the conditions at this prison, why Donald Trump and El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele have partnered on this

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Why Trump Sent Venezuelan Migrants to Prison in El...

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2025/03/24

Last week, Americans learned that ICE sent 238 migrants to the CECOT mega prison in El Salvador under the unsubstantiated pretense that all were members of the Tren de Aragua gang. Annie Correal, reporter at the New York Times, shares her reporting on the conditions at this prison, why Donald Trump and El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele have partnered on this endeavor, and the Venezuelan family members who fear their loved ones have been disappeared.

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Call Your Senator: Sen. Andy Kim on Social Security,...

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2025/03/24

U.S. Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) talks about Social Security in the new Trump administration and what he's learned hosting town halls in Democratic and Republican districts across his state.

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Brian Lehrer Weekend: Heather Cox Richardson; Local...

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2025/03/22

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Is This What Democracy Looks Like: Heather Cox Richardson (First) | Local UAW Leader (Starts at 30:48) | 100 Years of 100 Things: New Yorker Cartoons (Starts at 1:15:26)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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Local UAW Leader; Global News Roundup; Student Loans...

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2025/03/21

Loading...On today's show: Brandon Mancilla, UAW Region 9A director, talks about his union's diverse local membership, which includes auto workers, as well as public defenders and workers at museums, movie theaters, higher education, and nonprofits; the effects of Trump administration cuts; and their ranked-choice-voting campaign in the mayoral primary. Ishaan Tharoor, foreign affairs columnist at The Washington Post and the author of the Today's World View newsletter and column, breaks down

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