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Reporters Ask the Mayor: Involuntary Commitment;...

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2024/11/20

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 Monday's random stabbings, the drought warning, and his relationship with the incoming president.

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What Trump's 'Megadonors' Want; Reporters Ask the...

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2024/11/20

Loading... On today's show: Daniel Klaidman, investigative reporter based for CBS News, former editor-in-chief of Yahoo News and author of Kill Or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency, and co-author of Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election, breaks down the megadonors who fueled Donald Trump's campaign for president and what they may want in the next 4 years. Mayor Adams holds one

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Climate and a Second Trump Term; NYC Student...

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2024/11/19

Loading... On today's show: Zack Colman, reporter covering climate and energy at Politico, talks about Trump's pick of oil executive Chris Wright to be the secretary of energy and the takeaways from the first week of COP29, the annual climate conference with world leaders. New data show 1 in 8 children in New York City public schools are homeless, a record number. Christine Quinn, president & CEO of Win, the largest provider of shelter and supportive services for homeless families in New

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Climate and a Second Trump Presidency

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2024/11/19

Zack Colman, reporter covering climate and energy at Politico, talks about President-elect Donald Trump's pick of oil executive Chris Wright to be the secretary of energy and the takeaways from the first week of COP29, the annual climate conference with world leaders.

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Call Your Senator: Sen Gillibrand on Election...

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2024/11/19

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D, NY) talks about her reelection, President-Elect Trump's cabinet picks, UFOs, and more.

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How Your Relationships Survive Political Differences

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2024/11/19

Listeners talk about how the manage to keep their relationships going despite major political differences and disagreements.

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Record Number of Homeless Children in NYC Schools

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2024/11/19

New data show 1 in 8 children in New York City public schools are homeless, a record number. Christine Quinn, president & CEO of Win, the largest provider of shelter and supportive services for homeless families in New York City, talks about the challenges homeless families face, and offers ideas on how to help solve a longstanding problem.

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Goodbye to Broker Fees; Leader Jeffries on Democracy;...

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2024/11/18

Loading... On today's show: New York City Councilmember Chi Ossé (District 36, Bedford Stuyvesant, Northern Crown Heights) talks about his recently-passed bill that will ban broker fees, long a major financial hurdle that renters have to overcome - and responds to the criticism from the real estate industry. U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn), House minority leader and the author of, with illustrations by Shaniya Carrington, The ABCs of Democracy (Grand Central Publishing,

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Leader Jeffries on Democracy 101

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2024/11/18

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn), the author of, with illustrations by Shaniya Carrington, The ABCs of Democracy (Grand Central Publishing, 2024), talks about the election results, and his new book based on a speech he gave on the House floor last year.

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100 Years of 100 Things: US Involvement in the Middle...

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2024/11/18

As our centennial series continues, 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), reviews the history of American foreign policy toward the Middle East alongside Rami Khouri, Palestinian-American journalist, senior public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut, nonresident senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington, op-ed contributor Al Jazeera online, and

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Goodbye to Broker Fees

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2024/11/18

New York City Councilmember Chi Ossé (District 36, Bedford Stuyvesant, Northern Crown Heights) talks about his recently-passed bill that will ban broker fees, long a major financial hurdle that renters have to overcome - and responds to the criticism from the real estate industry.

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Brian Lehrer Weekend: Inflation Reduction Act;...

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2024/11/16

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.How Trump will undo Biden's signature climate law (First) | The impact of the uncommitted movement (Starts at 24:00) | The Gen Z bro media diet (Starts at 48:15)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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Trump's Cabinet Picks; The Uncommitted Movement and...

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2024/11/15

Loading... Coming up on today's show: Annie Karni, congressional correspondent for The New York Times, talks about the various people President-elect Donald Trump has chosen for top positions and how Republican leadership is responding to his picks. Aymann Ismail, staff writer at Slate, talks about his campaign season reporting on Muslim and Arab-American voters, the "uncommitted" movement and how it affected turnout for Vice President Harris. Katelyn Jetelina, founder and author of the

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Public Health Experts Nervously Await the Next Trump...

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2024/11/15

Katelyn Jetelina, founder and author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, talks about what may be coming down the road for public health, as President-elect Trump considers giving noted vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and others who have questioned settled science, leading roles in the administration.

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A Congestion Pricing Relaunch

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2024/11/15

Gov. Kathy Hochul has revived the plan to bring congestion pricing to New York City with a $9 base toll. Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom, talks about the details of the plan.

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Friday Morning Politics: Trump's Cabinet Picks; GOP...

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2024/11/15

Annie Karni, congressional correspondent for The New York Times, talks about the various people President-elect Trump has chosen for top positions, and how Republican leadership is responding to his picks.

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How Much Did the Uncommitted Movement Affect Turnout...

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2024/11/15

Aymann Ismail, staff writer at Slate, talks about his campaign season reporting on Muslim and Arab-American voters, the "uncommitted" movement, and how it affected turnout for Vice President Harris.

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Brian Lehrer Weekend: Prop 1 on the NY Ballot, NY and...

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2024/11/02

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.The Battle Over Prop 1 on the NY Ballot (First) | The Nuts and Bolts of Voting in New York and New Jersey (Starts at 52:29) | Why Do You Run the NYC Marathon (Starts at 1:17:34)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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100 Years of 100 Things: American Capitalism

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2024/11/01

As our centennial series continues, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, university professor at Columbia University, chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute, and author of The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W.W.Norton, 2024), reviews the history of American capitalism and the ebb and flow of regulation.

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Bob Woodward; Voting Nuts and Bolts in NY & NJ; 100...

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2024/11/01

Loading...On today's show: Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, associate editor at The Washington Post and the author of many books, including his latest, War (Simon and Schuster, 2024), talks about his new book covering American presidential policies toward the war in Ukraine and the Middle East and the election. Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York and Henal Patel, director of the Law & Policy program at the New Jersey Institute for

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