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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.
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Oct 15, 2024 • 23min
Meet the Candidates for NY-17: Mike Lawler
U.S. Representative Mike Lawler (R, NY-17) makes his pitch to voters as he runs for reelection in New York's 17th Congressional district.=> Campaign website

Oct 15, 2024 • 35min
A History of ADHD and its Treatment
Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes talk about their new podcast, Backfired: Attention Deficit, which chronicles the history of ADHD, why diagnoses have shot up, and how it's treated.

Oct 15, 2024 • 23min
Meet the Candidates for NY-17: Mondaire Jones
Mondaire Jones, former representative of New York's 17th congressional district, now running to regain the seat, makes his case for going to Washington once again.=> Campaign website

Oct 15, 2024 • 28min
Misinformation and Climate Change
Maxine Joselow, climate reporter at The Washington Post and author of The Climate 202 newsletter, discusses the misinformation spread on the right about the origins of recent hurricanes and FEMA disaster money, which is causing factions in the GOP and holding up disaster relief.

Oct 14, 2024 • 47min
Swing State Check-In: Arizona
Jim Small, editor in chief of The Arizona Mirror, an independent, nonprofit news organization, talks about the issues animating voters in the swing state of Arizona, and what the polls show about the chances that Trump and Harris have of winning the state.

Oct 14, 2024 • 13min
Lights in the Night Sky
Astrophysicist and science educator at the American Museum of Natural History, Jackie Faherty, talks about comets, planets and constellations visible this season, plus the aurora borealis that made a rare appearance in the NYC sky.

Oct 14, 2024 • 28min
100 Years of 100 Things: Teaching Indigenous People's Stories
As our centennial series continues, Irene Kearns, digital program manager for Native Knowledge 360° at the National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian Institution, talks about how indigenous people's history and stories have been taught and how that's changed.

Oct 14, 2024 • 23min
Whose Wages Are Going Up in NYC?
Greg David, contributor covering fiscal and economic issues for THE CITY and director of the business and economics reporting program and Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, talks about the latest numbers on wage growth, plus the business community's response to the legal problems at City Hall.

Oct 12, 2024 • 1h 10min
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Al Sharpton; John & Yoko; Breast Cancer Awareness
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Al Sharpton on Adams & the Presidential Race (First) | Revisiting John & Yoko's Week with The Mike Douglas Show (Starts at 21:00) | Breast Cancer Awareness Month (Starts at 36:00)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

Oct 11, 2024 • 46min
100 Years of 100 Things: Nobel Peace Prize
On the day the Nobel Committee awards the Peace Prize, Gideon Rose, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the former editor of Foreign Affairs and author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, 2010), looks at this year's recipient and back through its impact over the last century, as part of our ongoing centennial series.


