The Brian Lehrer Show

Tik Root, senior staff writer at Grist, a nonprofit media organization covering climate, justice and solutions, reports on how ski resorts, battling a lack of snow due to global warming, are making snow using greener technologies.

The Senate primary race to replace Sen. Bob Menendez is on between Rep. Andy Kim and the governor's wife Tammy Murphy. Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and editor, and host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, reports on what's happening in the campaign ahead of the June primary, and the string of surprising wins Kim has collected over Murphy in county Democratic committee elections.

On Monday, the Democratically-controlled legislature rejected the new districts proposed by the redistricting commission and offered their own new maps overnight. Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, talks about the latest on New York's redistricting process and why they are calling for changes to the process before the next census.

Flaco, the escaped Central Park Zoo eagle-owl who fascinated so many New Yorkers, died over the weekend. Listeners call in share their remembrances.

Steve Coll, an editor at The Economist in London, dean emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School, former president of New America, and the author of Ghost Wars and his new book, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A. and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq (Penguin, 2024), traces the relationship between Iraq's leader and the U.S. and how misunderstandings and miscommunications led to war over non-existent weapons of mass destruction, and the implications for today's Mideast policies.

As we close out the second month of the 2024 election year, numerous anti-trans laws have been enacted across the country. Alejandra Caraballo, Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Cliniclooks at the latest in anti-trans policies including an executive order in Nassau County that targets young trans women athletes as well as Oklahoma’s anti-trans laws that are under new scrutiny after a 16 year old nonbinary child died a day after an altercation in their school’s bathroom.

Four years ago this week, the first Covid case was diagnosed in New York and people began canceling plans. Listeners call in to share whether their patterns of in-person socializing have shifted, especially since the pandemic began.

David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, breaks down the latest in New York City housing news, including why NYC Council is joining a lawsuit against Mayor Eric Adams over housing vouchers and his reporting on the lack of 2-bedroom apartments in neighborhoods with the most concentration of families.

Jonathan Martin, senior political columnist at Politico and the co-author of This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future (Simon & Schuster, 2022), breaks down the results of Saturday's Republican presidential primary in South Carolina, where Nikki Haley lost to Donald Trump, plus previews President Joe Biden's primary in Michigan, where opposition to his policies on Gaza face criticism.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. AOC on The Green New Deal's Anniversary (First) | New York's Unfulfilled Legal Cannabis Rollout (Starts at 28:30) | Shirley Chisholm's Historic Bid for the Presidency (Starts at 48:00) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.