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The Brian Lehrer Show

Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.

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00:10:23

What's So Great About New York?

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/19

A new Siena poll shows a (slight) majority of New Yorkers said the state is on the right track, while 59% of respondents thought the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction. New Yorkers call in to share what they think is going well in the state compared to the rest of the country.

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00:39:25

BP Reynoso on Support for Brooklyn Marine Terminal Plan

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/19

Brooklyn Borough president Antonio Reynoso talks about why he's now supporting the plan to redevelop Brooklyn's Marine Terminal ahead of a pivotal vote on the project.

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00:35:05

When DOJ Investigates the President

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/19

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), explores investigations by the Department of Justice of presidents and other high-ranking officials throughout the years, and how the system may be tested during Trump's second presidency.

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00:45:23

Atlantic Festival Takes on Politics and Knowledge

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/18

As the Atlantic Festival takes place in NYC, staff writers and panelists Ashley Parker, staff writer at The Atlantic, former Washington Post White House bureau chief, and Adam Serwer, staff writer at The Atlantic, preview their panels and discuss the latest from the White House particularly the events after the the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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00:08:24

What "The Pitt" Means to Healthcare Workers

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/18

On Sunday, the television drama "The Pitt," about emergency room healthcare workers at a hospital in Pittsburgh, cleaned up at the Emmys with several major wins. Listeners who work in the healthcare profession call in to share what the series meant to them and how accurately it depicted post-COVID healthcare.

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00:28:21

A Call for More Scrutiny of Deaths in NYPD Custody

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/18

Meghna Philip, director of the special litigation unit at the Legal Aid Society, talks about its call for the department of investigation to look into all cases of deaths in police custody, after a fifth death occurred this year.

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00:27:48

AI in the Job Market

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/18

Hilke Schellmann, investigative reporter, assistant professor of journalism at New York University, and author of The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired, And Why We Need To Fight Back (Grand Central Publishing, 2024), talks about AI's expanding role in the job hiring process for both applicants and employers—and its implications.

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00:41:44

City Politics: Governor Hochul Endorses Zohran...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/17

Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, and Jimmy Vielkind, New York state issues reporter for Gothamist and WNYC and author of the substack "Notes from Jimmy," talk about the latest in the mayor's race, including Gov. Hochul's endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, and a wrinkle in the relationship between comptroller Brad Lander and Zohran Mamdani.

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00:31:46

Are the Lethal U.S. Strikes on Venezuelan Boats Legal?

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/17

The Trump administration's recent lethal strikes on purported drug boats in Venezuela drew widespread condemnation from experts in international law. Brian Finucane, senior adviser at the International Crisis Group and a non-resident senior fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law, talks about the strikes and breaks down their legality, plus discusses the implications of that analysis.

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00:37:30

Meet the NJ Governor Candidates: Rep. Mikie Sherrill

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/17

Democratic nominee U.S. Representative Mikie Sherrill (D, NJ-11) talks about her campaign for governor and takes calls from NJ voters.

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00:41:03

Jill Lepore on the American Constitution

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/16

Looking ahead to the 250th anniversary of the U.S., Jill Lepore, professor of American history at Harvard University, staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of several books, including We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (Liveright, 2025), digs into the history of the country's founding document and what it means for the country that it is so difficult, but still possible, to change.

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00:25:46

Supportive Housing Sitting Empty

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/16

David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about new City Council legislation to require reporting on unfilled supportive housing units, aimed at decreasing the number of empty units (5,000, as of June)."To fill empty apartments for homeless people, NYC will first start tracking them" (Gothamist, Sept 12)

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00:42:09

Inside RFK Jr's MAHA Report on Childhood Health

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/16

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued a report on the state of children's health. Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent, KFF Health News and host of the What the Health? podcast, talks about the details of the report and where it fits into the Trump administration's MAHA initiative.

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00:19:52

Social Media and the Charlie Kirk Killing

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/15

Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, videos were circulating on social media, and many people saw the gruesome crime without meaning to just by logging on. Adam Clark Estes, senior technology correspondent at Vox, talks about how little content moderation big tech companies are doing these days, how the algorithm fed off people pausing to watch the video, and how content like this may traumatize vast swaths of people.

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00:29:47

City Council Overrides Mayor's Vetoes

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/15

Jeffery Mays, New York Times reporter covering politics with a focus on New York City Hall, talks about the new worker and vendor protections passed by the City Council, overriding Mayor Adams' vetoes.

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00:08:54

Your Family's 'Secret Language'

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/15

A recent Washington Post article explained how most families have a secret language that only they understand, or a "familect" as some linguists call it. Listeners call in to share the words in their family that only they use, which are often conjured in the minds of small children and then used for years down the road.

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00:50:23

How Trump May Be Changing the Elections Process

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/15

Ari Berman, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), talks about his latest article on the "rapidly escalating" threats to America’s election system, including how the Trump administration is making it harder to vote, the DOJ's civil rights division has dropped cases investigating gerrymandered maps in states such as Arizona, Georgia, and Texas and more.

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00:57:42

Brian Lehrer Weekend: Improving Ticket-Buying; NYC's...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/13

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Lawmakers Attempt to Improve the Ticket-Buying Experience (First) | The City's Rat Czar Shares Progress and Challenges (Starts at 23:40) | Helping Monarch Butterflies Thrive in NYC (Starts at 44:44)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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00:11:02

How Economic Trends Are Reshaping Restaurants

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/12

As the US economy and consumer preferences fluctuate, listeners in the restaurant industry and their customers share how they're adapting to tariffs, slowed job growth, widespread use of GLP-1 medications altering appetites, and other trends.

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00:49:54

The Democrats' Shutdown Debate

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/12

Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent at Vox and the author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World (PublicAffairs, 2024), talks about the debate among Democrats over whether to go along with the Republican plan to fund the government or withhold their votes, resulting in a shutdown.=> "The Democrats’ shutdown debate is about something much bigger" (Vox, Sept. 10, 2025)

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