New York Assembly Member (D-28th District, Forest Hills), Andrew Hevesi, and New York State Senator (D-Manhattan, 28th district), Liz Krueger, who is chair of the Senate Finance Committee, talk about Home Stability Support, a bill that would provide subsidies to renters facing homelessness, and why it should be included in the April 1 budget.…

Laura Curran talks about why she's recommending Nassau County opt out of legal pot sales, if New York State were to legalize recreational marijuana. @BrianLehrer I also CONGRATULATE Supervisor Curran for having the courage to correct the previously unfair Nassau County system for assessing property for taxes. — Lynda Adams (@MyRebut1) March 21, ...…

In the 2020 presidential race, after Iowa and New Hampshire make their choices, the more ethnically diverse states of Nevada and South Carolina hold their primaries. Hugh Jackson, editor of the Nevada Current, and Gavin Jackson, host of the South Carolina Lede podcast, talk about the early campaigning in their states.…

Charlie Warzel, New York Times Opinion writer at large, discusses the terror attacks on a New Zealand mosque and the use of social media platforms to spread hateful ideologies.

Charlie Warzel, New York Times Opinion writer at large, discusses the terror attacks on a New Zealand mosque and the use of social media platforms to spread hateful ideologies.

Sana Goldberg, registered nurse, public health advocate and the author of How to Be a Patient: The Essential Guide to Navigating the World of Modern Medicine (Harper Wave, 2019), offers consumers clear-cut advice on dealing with today's healthcare system.

From calling for the end of the electoral college to universal childcare to breaking up Facebook, Elizabeth Warren has been churning out a progressive policy platform. Alyssa Mastromonaco, former assistant to President Obama, co-host of Crooked Media's Hysteria Podcast, and author of So Here's the Thing . . . Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, ...…

As the New Jersey legislature gets ready to vote on recreational marijuana legalization, New York continues to work on it. WNYC New Jersey reporter, Karen Rouse, and Amol Sinha, executive director of ACLU New Jersey, talk about how each state is approaching social justice issues like record expungement and who gets a license to sell.…

As the New Jersey legislature gets ready to vote on recreational marijuana legalization, New York continues to work on it. WNYC New Jersey reporter, Karen Rouse, and Amol Sinha, executive director of ACLU New Jersey, talk about how each state is approaching social justice issues like record expungement and who gets a license to sell.…

Ahead of the April 1 deadline, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo talks about key parts of the New York State budget, including criminal justice reform, and other statewide news.

Ahead of President Trump's meeting with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, Glenn Greenwald, co-founding editor of The Intercept, former constitutional law and civil rights litigator and author of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (Picador, 2015), examines the ties between Bolsonaro and Brazil’s violent p ...…

The public high school in Jericho, New York is just miles apart from the one in Westbury, but it spends thousands more dollars on each pupil per year. Leslie Brody, Wall Street Journal Greater New York education reporter, talks about the resource gap between neighboring public schools and how such disparities are playing into a debate in Albany ...…

L. Joy Williams, president of the Brooklyn National Association for the Advanced of Colored People (NAACP) and creator and host of “Sunday Civics” podcast, talks about starting the IVF process, why she thinks too many women still suffer in silence regarding fertility, especially black women, and takes calls. "When I would talk to women they cou ...…

Kate Hinds, WNYC planning editor, discusses parking placard abuse and the many ways in which others are illegally taking up precious New York City parking spaces. "There’s 125,000 parking placards in the New York City right now, split between NYPD, Department of Education and DOT. You can park in metered spots without paying, pretty much anywhe ...…

Jane Lytvenenko, BuzzFeed News reporter, talks about the difference in how social media platforms respond to Islamophobic hate speech versus other forms of extremism and Ryan Mac, a senior tech reporter for BuzzFeed News, and Michael German, a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, and former FBI spe ...…

Gloria Steinem, writer, lecturer, political activist and feminist organizer, Pamela Shifman, executive director of the NoVo Foundation, and Miyhosi Benton, member of the Women's Building advisory circle and an associate at the Women & Justice Project (WJP), a non-profit organization that centers the leadership of women directly impacted by inca ...…

Varshini Prakash, executive director and a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, a grassroots movement that is demanding immediate action from the United States Congress to address the climate change crisis, talks about the student climate strike, organized to protest inaction around climate change. Students Alexandria Villaseñor, Fridays for Fut ...…

New York City comptroller, Scott Stringer, offers his proposal for repairing and re-imagining the BQE into a trucks-only highway with a park on top. "This BQE plan is the new model, we can make renovations, we can get cars off the BQE by putting forth congestion pricing… it’s a new paradigm about how to think about developing in our communities ...…

David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic, who covers U.S. politics and global news, talks about the latest national political news, including how the Republicans in Congress broke ranks on three separate votes with President Trump last week — as well as Beto O'Rourke's entry into the 2020 presidential campaign. "One hand a lot of Republicans ...…

Jane Coaston, senior politics reporter at Vox, talk about the white nationalist ideas that influenced the alleged New Zealand shooter, and the connections to similar acts of violence in the United States and around the world. "Manifestos like those created by the Christchurch shooter or Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber… are created with the purpose ...…

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. City University Names New President (First) | The New Young Socialists (Starts at 26:05) | Signs of Spring! (Starts at 1:11:38) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

Autumn Arnett, author of Let's Stop Calling It an Achievement Gap: How Public Education in the United States Maintains Disparate Educational Experiences for Students of Color (Information Age Pub Inc, 2019), Libby Nelson, news editor at Vox.com and former education reporter, and Ed Boland, former executive at Prep for Prep, former admissions of ...…

Joe Pinsker, staff writer at The Atlantic, who covers families and education, talks about why some people eat basically the same food every day — why they like it and how they do it.

Marilyn Mosby, State's Attorney for Baltimore, Maryland, discusses tackling the Baltimore’s rising crime and big city policing in an era of reform. "It’s incredibly important for folks to think about the root causes as to why crimes take place... When we talk about the concentration of poverty in New York and Baltimore it’s very different," say ...…

Imam Khalid Latif, university chaplain for New York University, and executive director of the Islamic Center at NYU, talks about how the Muslim community is reacting to the shooting at a New Zealand mosque, and takes calls from Muslim listeners ahead of Friday prayers. "People like this are individualized and spoken about in terms of mental hea ...…

Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC, including protecting places of worship, storm resiliency work and when the high school admissions letters will go out. "NYPD is reinforcing Muslim community centers and mosques, you’ll see a lot of NYPD presence," says @NYCMayor on NYC response to Ne ...…

Danielle Sered, restorative justice advocate, founder of the Brooklyn-based Common Justice and the author of Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (The New Press, 2019), argues that the restorative justice process offers a better solution to violent crime than mass incarceration. "More than half of people locked up ...…

Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, president of Queens College and chancellor-designate of The City University of New York, discusses his vision for the future of the nation’s largest urban public university system and one of the country’s most potent engines of social mobility. "New Yorkers should be proud that their children and working adults can att ...…

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-35) talks about the New York State Senate Democrats' priorities for the budget as negotiations get serious ahead of the April 1 deadline. On her April 1st budget:"We did include additional funding for the tenant protection unit but our Republican colleagues never wanted to fund it. There wi ...…

Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy and host of the Trump, Inc. podcast at WNYC, and Jennifer Rodgers, former federal prosecutor and lecturer at Columbia Law School, break down the latest sentencing of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. "We did not know about Ukrainian oligarchs at this time, we didn’t know about ...…

David McCraw, deputy general counsel for the New York Times, talks about his new book, Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (All Points Books, 2019). "The First Amendment that protects us to do world class journalism also protects speech that’s hateful... we have people who don’t know where that ...…

Francisco Cantú, former border patrol agent, writer and the author of The Line Becomes a River (Riverhead, 2019), talks about the people he met while policing the border, and comments on the immigration and border debates now in the news. "No matter what version of hell you implement on the border people are going to cross and endure it in orde ...…

Jumaane Williams, recently-elected NYC public advocate and former NYC council member for the 45th District, talks about his new role as NYC public advocate and his plans for the office. "I was just happy because I was always told I was too much of an activist and I had to choose… I was always told I had to change my message… and it turns out pe ...…

Sean McElwee, contributor to The Nation and co-founder of Data for Progress, Sarah Leonard, executive editor of The Appeal and Waleed Shahid, communications director for the Justice Democrats, talk about the politics, ideals and policies of the socialist movement that's catching on among the young left. "There’s a reason that our most famous mo ...…

After causing a stir at Davos for demanding the world’s richest people pay more taxes, Rutger Bregman, journalist and author of Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Little, Brown and Company 2017), was invited on Fox News to bash the liberal elite. Instead he came for Fox host Tucker Carlson, suggesting that he too was a pawn ...…

George Hamlin, aviation consultant, and Gerry Shih, Washington Post Beijing correspondent, talk about concerns over the safety of the Boeing 737 Max after a second crash in five months leads some countries to ground the airplanes and about China's decision to ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 planes. "Chinese officials have said this nothing to do wi ...…

Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr., editor-in-chief of POZ, joins to discuss the latest developments around HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention work, including news that a second HIV-positive person enters remission after a rare treatment and how the Trump administration plans to end HIV/AIDS at the same time as proposing to cut Medicare and Medicaid. Listen ...…

Ibrahim Hirsi, Somali-American journalist who has covered immigrant communities in Minnesota , talks about the history of the Somali community in Minnesota, how Somali-Americans are interpreting recent news over the surge in American airstrikes in Somalia plus Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s current controversy.…

Briahna Gray, columnist and senior politics editor at The Intercept, discusses 2020 Democratic presidential candidates' embrace of race-conscious policies like reparations, and the merits of their plans to address the racial wealth gap. Why does AOC resonate with some?"She foregrounds humanity and morality in her politics. She is able to convey ...…

William Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, longtime diplomat and State Department official and the author of The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal (Random House, 2019), talks about his life as an American diplomat and why diplomacy matters. "As you look at Donald Trump’s r ...…

Speaker of the New York City Council, Corey Johnson, talks about his recent "State of the City" speech in which he proposed City-control of the subways, plus other issues facing the City Council — and takes calls from listeners. "The main reason for the crisis is accountability. We fund 70 percent of the MTA’s annual budget and we barely have a ...…

Batya Ungar-Sargon, opinion editor at The Forward, and Jessica Smith, chief operating officer at J Street, offer different responses from the Left to the issues raised by the Rep. Ilhan Omar controversy. "When you allow anti-Semitic tropes to infiltrate criticism of Israel, you make it so much harder for the Jewish community to join that conver ...…