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Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Demise of Spirit Airlines (First) | Is a Rent Freeze Coming? (Starts...
Janai Nelson , president-director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks about the implications of the Supreme Court's decision in C...
David Brand , housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about the Rent Guidelines Board's preliminary vote on rent regulations for abou...
Ian Shapiro , professor of political science and global affairs at Yale University, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences an...
Author Alva Gotby's book They Call it Love: The Politics of Emotional Life (Verso Books, 2023), coined the term emotional reproduction to de...
Dean Seal , corporate news reporter for The Wall Street Journal , talks about how the Iran war and higher fuel prices were a major factor in...
Alvin Bragg , Manhattan district attorney, talks about recent work his office has done vacating wrongful convictions, a statistical decline...
Suzanne Goldberg , professor of law at Columbia Law School and co-founder of the school's Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, talks about t...
Listeners call in to talk about the latest or best book they've listened to, plus discuss the types of books they prefer to listen to over r...
Andy Kim , U.S. Senator (D NJ), talks about his work in the Senate and the issues in New Jersey, including the war with Iran and partisan re...
NYC Health and Hospitals announced plans to shut down a storied program at Bellevue Hospital that treats torture survivors, citing tenuous f...
The U.S. fertility rate dropped to another record low in 2025, according to provisional CDC data, marking a 23% drop since 2007. Jill Filipo...
Wes Jackson , president of BRIC, unveils the lineup for the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! festival in Prospect Park, where the theme this year is...
On Monday, the Supreme Court temporarily reinstated a Food and Drug Administration rule allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to be prescr...
Zellnor Myrie , New York State Senator (D-20, parts of central Brooklyn including Crown Heights, Prospect Heights and Park Slope), talks abo...
Melissa Murray , NYU law professor, co-host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny, MSNOW commentator and the author of The U.S. Constitution: A Com...
WNYC has been targeted by scammers who posed as hosts and offered authors interviews -- for a fee (which WNYC would never do). Rachel Tobac...
Nick Corasaniti , New York Times reporter covering national politics, with a focus on voting and elections, talks about how the Supreme Cour...
Christine Clarke , commissioner and chair of the NYC Commission on Human Rights, talks about her new role, the Mamdani administration's prio...
Derrick Palmer , cofounder of the Amazon Labor Union and the author of Handbook for the Revolution: Building a More Perfect Union for the Tw...
Last Friday was "decision day" for high school seniors who are making plans to go to college in the fall. Listeners call in to share how muc...
Join WNYC and Theater Of War for a series of programs hosted by Kai Wright and TOW artistic director Bryan Doerries that re-imagine works of...
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. AI Creeps Into the Classroom (First) | PEN World Voices & Global Free...
Farnaz Fassihi , United Nations Bureau Chief for The New York Times, reports on the latest in the negotiations around the Iran war and reope...
Lawmakers in Albany are going back and forth over a bill that would require so-called "super speeders" — drivers who get caught speeding mor...
The Department of Health and Human Services recently released new guidance that prioritizes childbirth over contraception. Mary Ziegler , UC...
The New York Times released a list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters . Lindsay Zoladz , pop music critic at The New York Times...
The Supreme Court heard arguments on two cases where the Trump administration is attempting to end TPS, or Temporary Protected Status, for t...
The Trump administration’s work requirement changes to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, officially took...
Nicholas Enrich , former civil servant who worked at USAID under four administrations and the author of Into The Wood Chipper: A Whistleblow...
Halle Newman , writer, talks about her recent piece for Slate, "My Dad Used to Have All the Answers. Now He Asks ChatGPT," and the people wh...
Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf , co-chief executive officer of PEN America, and Dinaw Mengestu , novelist and writer and president of PEN America, t...
Listeners call in to share about an interesting or out of the box job they are hiring for, or a job they recently got that they'd like to ta...
Emily Bazelon , staff writer for The New York Times Magazine , co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for crea...
Dana Kaplan , criminal justice reform expert, talks about her new role as Mayor Mamdani's Close Rikers Czar, leading NYC's efforts to close...
Listeners call in to talk about what they feel unsure about in this age of certainty and political polarization. Photo: A person sits at a r...
Elisabeth Rosenthal , senior contributing editor at KFF Health News, former ER physician, and author of An American Sickness: How Healthcare...
Cory Booker , U.S. Senator (D, NJ) and the author of Stand (St. Martin’s Press, 2026), talks about his efforts to gain support for a war pow...
Gideon Levy , Haaretz columnist, talks about the current state of violence and settlements in the West Bank. Photo: US ambassador to Israel...
This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that centers on Monsanto and Bayer's weedkiller Roundup—and its active ingredient...
David Brand , housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about the Mamdani administration's new Office of Deed Theft Prevention, and six...
Jessica Winter , staff writer at The New Yorker , covering family and education, discusses her latest reporting on how artificial intelligen...
Brian Stelter , chief media analyst for CNN Worldwide, lead author of the Reliable Sources newsletter and the author of several books, inclu...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has testified before Congress several times over the past month. Chelsea Cirruzzo...
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's lessons for Mayor Zohran Mamdani (First)...
Two so-called "buffer zone" bills passed the New York City council last month, and lawmakers in Albany have similar proposals on the table,...
With over fifty days into the U.S.-Iran war, the world has lost 550 million barrels of Gulf crude oil. Matthieu Favas , commodities editor a...
Dan Lambe , CEO of the Arbor Day Foundation , and Ben Osborne , assistant commissioner of forestry and horticulture at NYC Parks , talk abou...
Michael Valdovinos , a clinical psychologist, veteran, trauma expert and the author of Moral Injuries: When Good Conscience Suffers in a Wor...
A new report finds that New York City is losing population across income levels, and subsequently schools are losing students. Andrew Rein ,...