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The Brian Lehrer Show

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The Brian Lehrer Show from WNYC

  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    Brian Lehrer Weekend: Arab-Americans; Joseph Stiglitz; #PlasticsChallenge

    Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

    Your Arab-American Immigration Stories (First) | Reframing 'Free' Beyond Markets (Starts at 26:36) | A #PlasticsChallenge Wrap Up (Starts at 1:02:30)

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    27 April 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 24 minutes 30 seconds
    A Harsh Critique of President Biden on Gaza

    Nicholas Kristof, opinion columnist for The New York Times and author of several books, including the forthcoming memoir Chasing Hope (Penguin Random House, 2024), shares his critique of how he says President Biden has mishandled the United States' role in Israel's war in Gaza, what he sees as Biden's reasoning, the political implications and what the United States could do moving forward to end the war.

    26 April 2024, 7:59 pm
  • 14 minutes 59 seconds
    A National Poetry Month Open-Mic

    For National Poetry Month, we open up the phones for listeners to recite lines from their favorite poems.

    26 April 2024, 7:36 pm
  • 26 minutes 17 seconds
    A #PlasticsChallenge Wrap Up
    Listeners call in to share an honest assessment of the single-use plastics in their lives and Judith Enck, founder of Beyond Plastics, professor at Bennington College and former EPA Region 2 administrator, rides along to share tips and trick on how to reduce plastic use.
    26 April 2024, 7:34 pm
  • 17 minutes 42 seconds
    Explaining the Demand to 'Divest'

    Claire Thornton, USA Today breaking news reporter, talks about the calls by pro-Palestinian student protesters for their colleges and universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel.

    26 April 2024, 7:34 pm
  • 26 minutes
    Your Arab-American Immigration Stories
    In honor of National Arab American Heritage Month, Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a non-profit, nonpartisan, national civil rights advocacy organization, comes back on the show to tick through the long timeline of Arab-American immigration (and migration around the country), which shows the diversity of the community and where they landed throughout the country.
    26 April 2024, 5:46 pm
  • 21 minutes 22 seconds
    Special Coverage: Trump's Immunity Case Before the Supreme Court

    On today's show: 

    • Melissa Murray, NYU law professor, co-host of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast and the co-author (with Andrew Weissmann) of
    The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024), previews the oral arguments the Supreme Court will hear on former President Trump's immunity case.
    25 April 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 32 minutes
    Reporters Ask the Mayor: Arrests on Campuses; Randy Mastro
    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 when the NYPD intervenes on campus protests and the pushback on his reported selection of attorney Randy Mastro to lead NYC's legal department.
    24 April 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 11 minutes 34 seconds
    News From Your Classroom
    With teachers and students off of school this week, we open up the phones to hear stories from local classrooms that would otherwise be missed if not for the vacation.
    24 April 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 30 minutes 35 seconds
    The Trump 'Hush Money' Trial, So Far

    Erica Orden, Politico reporter, talks about the media diets of the jurors on the Trump "hush money" trial. Plus, she recaps the testimony of David Pecker, the former publisher for the National Enquirer, who talked about that publication's "catch and kill" strategy, which suppressed negative stories about people like Donald Trump. 

    24 April 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 34 minutes 59 seconds
    Reframing 'Free' Beyond Markets
    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), argues the neoliberal idea of freedom has led to economic crises and social unrest and argues for a more humane, 21st-century reframing of the concept.
    24 April 2024, 4:00 pm
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