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Monday Morning Politics; Subway Breakdowns; 100 Years...

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2025/01/27

Loading... Coming up on today's show: Jill Colvin, national political reporter for The Associated Press, talks about the latest national political news. Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom talks about the Gothamist series "State of Collapse." Joe Biden called himself "the most pro-labor President in American history," and National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo was key to his enforcement efforts. As an administration with a much different

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Monday Morning Politics: ICE Raids, Foreign Aid...

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2025/01/27

Jill Colvin, national political reporter for The Associated Press, talks about the latest national political news, including the ICE raids in Chicago and Dallas, the freeze on foreign aid and on immigration support funding.

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100 Years of 100 Things: The National Labor Relations...

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2025/01/27

Joe Biden called himself "the most pro-labor President in American history," and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo was key to his enforcement efforts. As an administration with a much different posture on labor shapes up, Dan Kaufman, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018), looks back through

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Subway Breakdowns

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2025/01/27

Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom talks about a new Gothamist series "State of Collapse" and the latest transportation news.

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Brian Lehrer Weekend: Trump's Anti-DEI Push; State of...

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2025/01/25

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Trump's Anti-DEI Push (First) | The State of Broadcast Journalism (Starts at 48:00 ) | Lessons Learned on Staying Warm (Starts at 1:15:00)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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A 'Tech Oligarchy'?; Meet the Mayoral Candidates:...

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2025/01/24

Loading...Coming up on today's show: Ashley Parker, staff writer at The Atlantic, former Washington Post White House bureau chief, talks about the close relationship between the incoming Trump administration and tech billionaires. Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller seeking the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2025, talks about the June primary, as well as the effect on NYC of the new Trump administration. Genia Blaser, director of Hotline at Immigrant Defense Project, and Yasmine

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What to Know About Deportation

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2025/01/24

Genia Blaser, director of Hotline at Immigrant Defense Project, and Yasmine Farhang, director of Advocacy at Immigrant Defense Project, discuss President Donald Trump's recent executive order to ramp up the deportation of undocumented immigrants and explain the rights that undocumented individuals have when interacting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Meet the Mayoral Candidates: Brad Lander

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2025/01/24

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander talks about the June primary as he seeks the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2025 as well as the effect on NYC of the new Trump administration, and other NYC news.

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A 'Tech Oligarchy'?

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2025/01/24

Ashley Parker, staff writer at The Atlantic, former Washington Post White House bureau chief, talks about the close relationship between the incoming Trump administration and tech billionaires. "The Tech Oligarchy Arrives" (The Atlantic, 1/20/25)

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Your Arts and Culture Resolutions

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2025/01/24

Will this year be the year you see some experimental theater or finish that crafting project? Listeners share their arts and culture resolutions for 2025.

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Trump's Anti-DEI Push; Gov. Hochul's Budget...

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2025/01/23

Loading... On today's show: Russell Contreras, Justice and Race reporter at Axios, discusses President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order revoking decades of diversity and affirmative action practices in the federal government and how it might impact the private sector. Jimmy Vielkind, New York State Issues reporter for WNYC, reviews what Gov. Hochul proposed in her $252 billion budget for the state, which now gets negotiated with the legislature. Jelani Cobb, dean of the Journalism School

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The State of Broadcast Journalism

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2025/01/23

Jelani Cobb, dean of the Journalism School at Columbia University and a staff writer at The New Yorker, talks about the 2025 duPont-Columbia award winners, plus the inauguration and the Trump administration's expected treatment of journalists.

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Trump's Anti-DEI Push

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2025/01/23

Russell Contreras, Justice and Race reporter at Axios, discusses President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order revoking decades of diversity and affirmative action practices in the federal government and how it might impact the private sector.

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How RedNote is Connecting Average Americans with...

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2025/01/23

Ahead of the TikTok ban, many Americans moved over to an even more Chinese social media application called RedNote. Steffi Cao, internet culture reporter, explains why she sees this as an opportunity for diplomacy and shares her reporting on how average American and Chinese civilians are getting along.

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Gov. Hochul's Budget Proposals

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2025/01/23

Jimmy Vielkind, New York State Issues reporter for WNYC, reviews what Gov. Hochul proposed in her $252 billion budget for the state, which now gets negotiated with the legislature.

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Trump and the Panama Canal; Reporters Ask the Mayor;...

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2025/01/22

Loading... On today's show: Jason Marczak, vice president and senior director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council, and Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, vice president for Global Studies and Fellows at New America and host of the Audible/Fresh Produce Media podcast "In the Room with Peter Bergen," offer analysis of President Trump's statements in his inaugural address about taking back the Panama Canal. Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press

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Reporters Ask the Mayor: Adams Enters Trump's...

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2025/01/22

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. Topics this week include the City's response to early actions taken by the Trump administration, Adams' attendance at Trump's inauguration, Adam's surprise interview on Tucker Carlson, and more.

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100 Years of 100 Things: Psychoanalysis and...

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2025/01/22

As our centennial series continues, Paul Bloom, professor emeritus of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and the author of several books, including Psych: The Story of the Human Mind (Ecco, 2023), reviews a century of developments in psychology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

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Trump and the Panama Canal

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2025/01/22

Jason Marczak, vice president and senior director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council, and Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, vice president for Global Studies and Fellows at New America and host of the Audible podcast "In the Room with Peter Bergen," offer analysis of President Trump's statements in his inaugural address about taking back the Panama Canal.

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Tuesday Morning Politics; Trump's Executive Order on...

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2025/01/21

Loading... On today's show: Jon Favreau, host of Pod Save America, Offline with Jon Favreau, and co-founder of Crooked Media, and Jon Lovett, host of Pod Save America and co-founder of Crooked Media, round up the latest news from Washington. Harold Solis, legal director at Make the Road New York, offers legal analysis of President Donald Trump's first executive actions and other policies on immigration. John Wilkerson, a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of

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