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10 Question Quiz: American History

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2025/03/06

Every day during this pledge drive, listeners can try their hands at a quiz. Today's topic is American history.

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President Trump's Speech to Congress; Reporters Ask...

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2025/03/05

Loading... On today's show: Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes a column on life in Washington and co-anchors a weekly roundtable discussion on "The Political Scene" podcast, and co-author with Peter Baker of The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (Doubleday, 2022), offers analysis of President Trump's speech to Congress, and the Democrats' response. Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any

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Reporters Ask the Mayor: Adams Testifies in Congress,...

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2025/03/05

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 former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's entrance into the mayoral primary.

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The Points Guy's Travel Advice: Healthy Travel

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2025/03/05

Throughout this pledge drive, Brian Kelly, founder of the travel site The Points Guy and the author of How to Win at Travel (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2025), shares advice on how to optimize your travel plans. Today, he shares advice on how to stay healthy when traveling, and how to cope with a fear of flying.

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President Trump's Speech to Congress

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/03/05

Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes a column on life in Washington and co-anchors a weekly roundtable discussion on "The Political Scene" podcast, and co-author with Peter Baker of The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (Doubleday, 2022), offers analysis, and fact-checking, of President Trump's speech to Congress.

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On the Democratic Response

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2025/03/05

Kadia Goba, congressional reporter for Semafor, provides her analysis of the official Democratic response to Pres. Trump's speech, from Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, as well as how Democrats in the chamber for the president's speech responded.

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10 Question Quiz: True or False

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2025/03/05

Every day during this pledge drive, listeners can try their hands at a quiz. Today: true or false?

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Public Health Under RFK Jr.; Trump's EPA vs. Climate...

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2025/03/04

Loading... On today's show: Jessica Malaty Rivera, infectious disease epidemiologist, science communicator and PhD student at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, talks about the government's response to the ongoing measles outbreaks, why an FDA vaccine advisory committee meeting on planning next year's flu shot was cancelled and what it could mean for next year's flu season. The Environmental Protection Agency has signaled that it will reverse the agency's 2009 declaration that greenhouse

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The Points Guy's Travel Advice: When Travel Goes...

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2025/03/04

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Trump's EPA Takes Aim at Climate Regulation

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2025/03/04

The Environmental Protection Agency has signaled that it will reverse the agency's 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health. Naveena Sadasivam, senior staff writer at Grist, explains what the so-called "endangerment finding" has contributed in the fight to mitigate climate change and why Trump's administration is targeting the declaration.

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100 Years of 100 Things: The ERA

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2025/03/04

As our centennial series continues, Julie Suk, a law professor at Fordham University and the author of We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (Skyhorse Publishing, 2020), reviews the history of the Equal Rights Amendment, from its introduction by Alice Paul in 1923 through its current disputed status, following passage by a 38th state and President Biden's declaration that it's the "law of the land."

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10 Question Quiz: Where Am I?

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2025/03/04

Every day during this pledge drive, listeners can try their hands at a quiz. Today's topic is local geography.

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Public Health Under RFK Jr.

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/03/04

Jessica Malaty Rivera, infectious disease epidemiologist, science communicator and PhD student at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, talks about the government's response to the ongoing measles outbreaks, why an FDA vaccine advisory committee meeting on planning next year's flu shot was cancelled and what it could mean for next year's flu season.

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Monday Morning Politics; NYC's New Math Curriculum;...

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2025/03/03

Loading... On today's show: Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief and the author of several books, including The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters (Simon & Schuster, 2024), talks about the latest national political news, including how the president is choosing which reporters cover him as part of the White House press pool, tense negotiations with Ukrainian President Zelensky and more. The city has implemented a new math curriculum called "Illustrative Math" and

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The Points Guy's Travel Advice: Booking Tips

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2025/03/03

Throughout this pledge drive, Brian Kelly, founder of the travel site The Points Guy and the author of How to Win at Travel (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2025), shares advice on how to optimize your travel plans. Today, he explains his tips for booking travel, including the best site to search for flights and how to maximize credit card points.

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And the Oscars Go To...

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2025/03/03

Dana Stevens, film critic at Slate.com, co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast and the author of Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century (Atria Books, 2022), recaps the highs and lows of Sunday's Academy Awards presentation.

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10 Question Quiz: This Year's Oscars

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2025/03/03

Every day during this pledge drive, listeners can try their hands at a quiz. Today's topic is this year's Academy Awards.

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Monday Morning Politics: Trump and Zelensky's Oval...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/03/03

Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief and the author of several books, including The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters (Simon & Schuster, 2024), talks about the latest national political news, including how the president is choosing which reporters cover him as part of the White House press pool, tense negotiations with Ukrainian President Zelensky and more.

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A New Way to Teach Math

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2025/03/03

The city has implemented a new math curriculum called "Illustrative Math" and not all teachers are fans. Jessica Gould, WNYC/Gothamist reporter, talks about how the roll out is going, and how officials hope it will improve dismal math scores.

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Brian Lehrer Weekend: Student Loans Under Trump 2.0;...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/03/01

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Navigating student loans under the new Trump administration (First) | What Trump's 'America First agenda' means right now (Starts at 26:20) | 100 Years of the Academy Awards (Starts at 54:55)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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