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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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00:39:19

Vaccine Status and Other Public Health News

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/23

Chelsea Cirruzzo, Washington correspondent for STAT News, talks about the White House press conference on autism, acetaminophen, and immunizations, plus the results of last week's meeting of the federal advisory committee on vaccines, and the confusion over federal, state and local public health rules.

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00:36:53

UNGA Preview

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/22

Richard Gowan, International Crisis Group's director of UN and Multilateral Diplomacy, shares what to expect at the UN General Assembly, including what President Trump may say in his Tuesday address, the war in Gaza and other crises and the role of the United Nations globally.

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00:15:50

Changing Your Faith

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/22

In a new memoir, Yusuf Islam, also known as the singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, writes about how converted his faith after a near-death experience. Listeners call in to share what has prompted them to change their faith.

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00:57:21

30 Issues in 30 Days: Sanctuary Laws in NYC and NJ

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/22

Daniel Di Martino, fellow at the Manhattan Institute whose research focuses on immigration, and Amy Torres, executive director of the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, debate the issues around sanctuary laws in the New York City mayor's race and the New Jersey governor's election.

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01:27:56

Brian Lehrer Weekend: Changing Elections; AI & Jobs;...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/20

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.How Trump May Be Changing the Elections Process (First) | AI in the Job Market (Starts at 51:0 0) | Your Family's 'Secret Language' (Starts at 1:18:00)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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00:25:43

Warnings From an AI Doomsayer

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/09/19

Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and the co-author (with Eliezer Yudkowsky) of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (Little, Brown and Company, 2025), talks about why he worries that AI "superintelligence" will lead to catastrophic outcomes, and what safeguards he recommends to prevent this.

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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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