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Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, who read her own poem at Pres. Obama's first inauguration, reflects on the young poet Amanda Gorman's poem from President Biden's inauguration, and the moment we're in.By WNYC
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Americans Mistrust Government. Is That a Bad Thing?
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Ethan Zuckerman, a professor of public policy, information and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and director of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure, and the author of Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them (W. W. Norton & Company, January 19, 2021), talks about the loss…
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The 'Super-Majority' Leader On Albany's Agenda
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Andrea Stewart-Cousins, New York State Senate majority leader (D, Westchester), talks about the Democrats' priorities in this new legislative session in Albany, including Gov. Cuomo's budget contingencies, and the need for federal aid to close a $15 billion budget gap.By WNYC
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Post-Inauguration National Politics: Biden's First Day
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Marc Fisher, senior editor at The Washington Post, talks about President Biden's calls for unity, and the many executive actions he took on his first day in office, including rolling back some of Trump's immigration restrictions, and building a pandemic response, basically from scratch.By WNYC
Jennifer Mercieca, historian of American political rhetoric and associate professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University, joins to discuss inaugural addresses of the past and previews the address of President-elect Joe Biden.By WNYC
As we await the swearing in of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University, host of the podcast FAQNYC, politics editor at The Grio and author of Black Ethnics (Oxford University Press, 2013) offers analysis of the change of leadership and what comes next.…
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Reflecting on Trump's Four Years on His Last Day in Office
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On Donald Trump's last full day in office, Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN global affairs analyst and co-author, with Peter Baker, of The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III (Doubleday, 2020), reflects on the President's tenure, including the norms he blasted through, the major policy decisions, the …
President Trump is expected to issue dozens of pardons today. Jami Floyd, WNYC's senior editor for race and justice and legal editor, talks about how this works and who might be getting one (including former New York political power player Sheldon Silver).By WNYC
Zach Iscol, military veteran, founder of the non-profits Headstrong and Hirepurpose, now running for the Democratic nomination as NYC mayor, talks about his mayoral campaign.By WNYC
Jessica Malaty Rivera, infectious disease epidemiologist and science communication lead at The COVID Tracking Project, talks about the latest COVID-19 news around the country, from a sluggish vaccine rollout to the continuing rise of cases around the U.S.By WNYC
Bitta Mostofi, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, talks about the call from a coalition of municipal leaders for a new approach toward America's immigrants, including a path to citizenship and more attention to immigrants in addressing the pandemic.By WNYC
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Taking Up the Mantle of Dr. King's Leadership
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Rev. Dr. William Barber, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC, architect of the Moral Monday Movement and the author of We Are Called to Be a Movement (Workman Publishing Group, 2020), talks about how he carries on Martin Luther King, …
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Teachers Talk About Their Lessons on Dr. King
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Teachers call in to share how they are teaching their students about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., especially in a year when so many marched for racial justice, and how they are approaching the January 6 insurrection with their students (and how these things relate).By WNYC
Gurbir Grewal, attorney general of New Jersey, talks about the work his office has been doing to fight systemic racism in the criminal justice system, and to support police reform efforts in New Jersey.By WNYC
Errin Haines, editor-at-large for The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics and policy, and an MSNBC contributor, talks about the upcoming transition of power, the white supremacist movement that stormed the Capitol to overturn the election, and what we can learn about our broken politics from the…
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Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman on Her Bout With COVID, The Death Penalty and the Insurrection
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Bonnie Watson Coleman, U.S. Representative (D, NJ-12), discusses the fallout from last week's siege at the US Capitol, the unprecedented second impeachment of President Trump, her case of COVID, racial justice and Dr. Martin Luther King, and the federal executions the Trump administration is trying to push through before he leaves office.…
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#AskTheMayor: City Budget; Vaccine Bureaucracy; More
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.By WNYC
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Brian Lehrer Weekend: America After Insurrection; Impeachment; Best Photo
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. America After Insurrection (First) | Impeachment (Starts at 28:45) | Our "Best Photo" Contest (Starts at 50:00) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.By WNYC
U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell (D-NJ 9), talks about this past week in Congress and looks ahead to the new term.By WNYC
Dara Kass, MD, emergency medicine physician at Columbia University Medical Center and Yahoo News medical contributor, talks about the latest COVID-19 news, including President-elect Joe Biden's proposal to distribute 100 million COVID-19 vaccines in his first 100 days in office.By WNYC
Listeners call in to share why they are participating in abstaining from alcohol for the month of January, and how it's going during the pandemic. Are you attempting a "dry" or "dryish" January this year? How's it going? And has your relationship with substances changed in this stressful year? How are you thinking about? Call in: 646 435 7280 — The…
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Call Your Senator: Sen. Gillibrand on Impeachment and COVID Relief
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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) talks about what happens now that the House has impeached Trump, and what's first on the docket for the first Senate session under Biden's administration.By WNYC
Nancy Solomon, managing editor for New Jersey Public Radio and WNYC, talks about Gov. Murphy's chances for re-election, as some progressives are upset with him and at least one Republican challenger has just dropped out.By WNYC
This week many more people became eligible to get vaccinated in New York and New Jersey after the CDC updated their guidance to say people over 65 and people who are immunocompromised should be able to get the vaccine now. With so much demand, state-run vaccination appointment websites are being put to the test and people are complaining of bureauc…
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Trump's Place In The History Of Insurrections
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Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, offers historical context for the attack on the U.S. Capitol.By WNYC
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How Online Extremists Are Planning For Inauguration Day
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Andrew Marantz, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation Viking (October 8, 2019), talks about how online extremists are planning to organize in the days leading up to and on Inauguration Day and whether the deplatforming of Donald Trump and apps like…
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The State of New York State and the New Legislative Term
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New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie (D-20th, including parts Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Gowanus, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, South Slope, and Sunset Park in Brooklyn), Elections Committee chair, talks about the new Senate session and reacts to Gov. Cuomo's State of the State address.…
Loree Sutton, MD, retired brigadier general who served as the Army’s highest-ranking psychiatrist, and former commissioner of New York City’s Department of Veterans’ Services, now vying for the Democratic nomination for NYC mayor, talks about her mayoral campaign.By WNYC
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The Latest From D.C.: Impeachment and the 25th Amendment
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Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief and the author of The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty (Twelve, 2019) and the forthcoming Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power (Twelve, April 2021), discusses the latest political headlines.By WNYC
Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of Health Initiatives at the Community Service Society and co-founder of the Health Care for All New York Campaign, talks about her report on nonprofit hospitals suing patients over debts during the pandemic, and proposed legislation to address the issue.By WNYC
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When Can I Get Vaccinated? And More COVID-19 FAQ
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Wafaa El-Sadr, University Professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University, the director of ICAP at Columbia University, and director of the Global Health Initiative at the Mailman School of Public Health, talks about the latest COVID-19 news and takes your calls.By WNYC
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Monday Morning Politics: A Second Impeachment?
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Mike DeBonis, Congress and national politics reporter for The Washington Post, talks about the latest on a second impeachment of President Trump, following the attack on the Capitol, and other national news.By WNYC
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Best Photo From Your Phone in 2020: Time Capsule Edition
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Every year, The Brian Lehrer Show asks listeners to submit the best photo sitting on their phone (no babies, no pets). Between the pandemic, the racial justice movement and the challenges to our democracy, the submissions this year were especially poignant. Laura Roumanos, executive director, and co-founder of Photoville and Laylah Amatullah Barray…
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Brian Lehrer Weekend: NYC Mayoral Race, Top Risks: 2021, Violence Interrupters
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. NYC Mayoral Race (First) | Top Risks: 2021 (Starts at 38:00) | Violence Interrupters (Starts at 1:13:23) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.By WNYC
Brandy Zadrozny, investigative reporter for NBC News, where she mostly covers misinformation, disinformation and extremism on the Internet, talks about the events that led up to Wednesday's breach on the Capitol, and how the event is being viewed by Trump's most ardent supporters and far right activists.…
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Listeners' Priorities for the Democratic Congress
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Listeners call in to share how they think the new Democratic Congress will be able to advance racial justice, plus talk about their priorities for the next Congress.By WNYC
U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D, NJ) talks about Wednesday's attack on the U.S. Capitol and what comes next for the Senate, as Democrats are on the cusp of taking control.By WNYC
With ballots in the mail for the Queens 24 special election, the first in the city to use ranked choice voting, Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, and Jagpreet Singh, lead organizer at Chhaya, explain how it works and answer your questions. For more information on Ranked Choice Voting, see RankTheVoteNYC.org or Vote.nyc.…
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Ask the Mayor: COVID Vaccine, Insurrection in DC and More
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC -- including why the COVID vaccine rollout has been so slow, and more.By WNYC
Malcolm Nance, national security and counterterrorism analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and the author of The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It (Hachette Books, 2019), talks about white supremacist extremism and yesterday's attack on Congress.…
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'Hospitals Are Throwing Out Unused Vaccines': NYC Pleads With Cuomo to Ease Vaccine Rules
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The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been slow in the City. New York City Council Member and Health Committee Chair Mark Levine (D 7th, Washington Heights, West Harlem, Upper West Side) talks about how he thinks the city can speed things up, and shares what he knows about when and where people can expect to get vaccinated.…
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Representatives Jeffries and Rice on the Insurrection
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U.S. Rep. and House Democrats Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn and Queens), followed by U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D NY-4th, Long Island), talk about yesterday's insurrection and what comes next for Congress.By WNYC
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Wednesday Morning Politics: Chaos at the Capitol
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Molly Ball, Time Magazine's national political correspondent and the author of Pelosi (Henry Holt and Co., 2020), runs through the latest news from Washington in the aftermath of the mob attack on the Capitol.By WNYC
Ruth Karron, M.D., professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, director of the Center for Immunization Research and founding director of the Johns Hopkins Vaccine Initiative, breaks down the facts and busts the myths surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines.By WNYC
Los Angeles County officials say COVID is "everywhere" and are urging residents to take extreme precautions. Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times metro reporter focused on earthquakes and the novel coronavirus, talks about that and how local hospitals are being crushed under a huge wave of COVID-19 cases.…
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Warnock Beats Loeffler; Trump Allies Make Last Stand in Congress
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Dave Weigel, national political correspondent for The Washington Post and author of The Trailer newsletter, runs through the big political stories of the day including the much-anticipated Georgia runoff and the electoral college certification.By WNYC
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Combatting Gun Violence Through Community Well-Being
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Iesha Sekou, CEO of Street Corner Resources and an anti-violence activist, talks about the importance of violence interrupters and their role in keeping neighborhoods and young people safe amid surges in violent crime.By WNYC
After nine months, a second round of stimulus checks is on the way. Our listeners share their plans for the money and their thoughts about whether the $600 check is adequate.By WNYC
Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZero Media, host of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer and the author of Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism (Portfolio, 2018), previews the top political risks ahead for 2021.By WNYC
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Local COVID-19 Roundup: Slow Vaccine Rollout and UK Variant Detected
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Elizabeth Kim, senior editor for Gothamist, and Karen Yi, WNYC reporter covering New Jersey, talk about the latest COVID news in our area including the vaccine rollout and the first case of the UK variant identified in New York State. @BrianLehrer can your guest describe in what way the new variant is more contagious? Does it travel further or live…