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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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00:32:52

Thursday Morning Politics: Trump's Primetime Address;...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/18

Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief and the author of the forthcoming book The Queen and Her Presidents (Harper/Collins April 2026), talks about the latest national political news, including President Trump's primetime address, the ongoing fight over ACA subsidies and the Vanity Fair profile of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles that is ruffling MAGA feathers. Then, U.S. Representative Mike Lawler (R, NY-17) talks about the vote on ACA subsidies pushed through by four Republican

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00:26:14

City Politics: Adams Outgoing; Mamdani Incoming

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/17

Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, talks about the latest news from City Hall and Mayor-elect Mamdani's transition plans.

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00:21:58

The Affordability Crisis for Creative New Yorkers

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/17

Eli Dvorkin, editorial and policy director at the Center for an Urban Future, discusses his organization's new report documenting the importance of the creative sector to New York City's economy, the affordability challenges the city's artists are facing, and solutions that would revive the community.

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00:48:40

A Generational Divide on Antisemitism

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/17

Yair Rosenberg, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Deep Shtetl, about the intersection of politics, culture, and religion, offers analysis of anecdotal and survey data that show a generational divide on antisemitism.

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00:12:30

Rob Reiner's Legacy and Your Tributes

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/17

Richard Rushfield, chief columnist at The Ankler, discusses the legacies of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who were found dead in their Hollywood home on Monday, and listeners offer their tributes.

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00:38:42

IRC on the Countries at Risk in 2026

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/16

David Miliband, president and chief executive officer of the International Rescue Committee, shares the countries on the IRC's "watchlist," or the countries they determine are most at risk for humanitarian emergencies, and what the IRC is doing to prepare.

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00:23:14

Time's 'Person' of the Year: AI Architects

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/16

Andrew Chow, technology correspondent at TIME, talks about the choice of the people behind AI for their annual "Person of the Year" selection.

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00:15:41

Shop Listener 2025: Kids!

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/16

Shop Listener is back for the 2025 holiday season. Listeners call in to shout out the children's holiday gifts they sell for a Brian Lehrer Show listener-sourced gift guide.==> Submit your information for our Shop Listener online guide at wnyc.org/shoplistener and check out all the entries!

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00:31:17

Environmental Justice in NYC

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/16

Peggy Shepard, co-founder & executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and Paul Onyx Lozito, deputy executive director of the Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice, talk about the city's report on environmental justice issues, which covers the disparate exposure to pollution and the effects of climate change, and explain the type of community input they are seeking as they begin work on an Environmental Justice NYC Plan.

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00:41:41

The Latest Battle Over the Fate of the ACA

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/15

Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent at KFF Health News and host of the What the Health? podcast, discusses the latest over the battle in Congress over the fate of the Affordable Care Act

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00:28:23

Meet the Likely New Speaker

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/15

City Councilmember Julie Menin, (D-5, Manhattan's Lenox Hill, Yorkville, Carnegie Hill and Roosevelt Island) talks about her priorities for City Council, as she is about to take over as speaker, and how she foresees her relationship with the incoming Mamdani administration will be.

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00:13:11

2025's Word(s) of the Year

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/15

"Rage bait." "Parasocial." "6-7." Ben Zimmer, linguist, language columnist, and chair of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, discusses what the words of the year chosen by various dictionaries like Oxford and Dictionary.com, and what the choices say about our language and culture. To submit your nomination for word of the year to the American Dialect Society, go to https://americandialect.org.

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00:25:54

Employers, Stop Ghosting Me!

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/15

Franklin Schneider, writer based in New York City, discusses his recent piece in The Atlantic, "When Did the Job Market Get So Rude?"

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01:12:58

Brian Lehrer Weekend: Mamdani's Emerging Opposition...

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/13

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.City Politics: Mamdani's Emerging Opposition; Lander's Congressional Bid (First) | Trump's Effort to Ban State AI Laws (Starts at 40:34) | Shop Listener 2025: Under $50 (Starts at 1:00:24)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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00:45:03

U.S. Escalates Tensions in Venezuela

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/12

Tess Bridgeman, co-editor-in-chief of Just Security, former Special Assistant to the President, Associate Counsel to the President and Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council (NSC) during the Obama administration, and William LeoGrande , professor of government at American University and specialist in U.S.-Latin America relations, discuss the latest Trump administration escalation in Venezuela, where the United States seized several additional oil tankers, and analyze the legality of

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00:21:58

A New Plan For Affordable Housing at Atlantic Yards

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/12

After years of stalled plans and unfulfilled promises of affordable housing near the Barclays Center, David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, reports on a new plan for housing at Atlantic Yards.

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00:15:01

NYT's 10 Best Books of 2025

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/12

Gilbert Cruz, editor at The New York Times Book Review shares the five fiction and five non-fiction books from this year that made it into The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024.

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00:27:41

Reflections on Interfaith Holiday Traditions

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/12

Jessica Grose, opinion writer at The New York Times, reflects on her family's interfaith holiday traditions, and listeners offer their own.

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00:38:01

Trump’s New National Security Strategy

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/11

Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many nonfiction books and his latest, a novel, A Capital Calamity (Miniver Press, 2024), discusses recent Trump administration moves to define The United States' relationship with The European Union and why the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday.

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00:38:37

Wikipedia Founder on Building Trust

The Brian Lehrer Show ·

2025/12/11

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation and the author of The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last (Crown Currency, 2025), talks about how Wikipedia was able to rely on the "wisdom of the crowd" even as distrust climbed in the larger culture.

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