Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

On today's show: David Sanger, White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times and the author of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West (Crown, 2024), talks about the many ways in which President Trump and his administration have challenged the post-WWII international order.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detailed Mahmoud Khalil—a legal permanent resident with a green card and prominent student-activist-turned-negotiator in pro-Palestine demonstrations at Colombia University.On Today's Show:Peter Markowitz, professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the founding faculty member and co-director of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic, offers legal analysis of the detention.

President Trump's U.S. Department of Agriculture has purged the agency's website of  information related to climate change, extreme weather resilience and sustainable farming practices.On Today's Show:Emily Atkin, editor-in-chief of the HEATED newsletter, unpacks the story.

Elon Musk and DOGE are slashing the size of the federal workforce in what they say will bring big savings to taxpayers. On Today's Show:Stephen Fowler, political reporter with NPR's Washington desk, reports on the typos, exaggerations and shoddy math in DOGE's receipts.

After 6 weeks of the new Trump administration, different parts of the political left are calling for different postures in opposing it. On Today's Show:Anand Giridharadas, journalist, publisher of the newsletter The.Ink, analyst for MSNBC, and the author of The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy (Knopf, 2022), shares his thoughts on the state of American democracy and what protest actions can be taken by those opposed to President Trump's current policies.

After President Donald Trump delivered his address to joint session of Congress, we explore how the Democratic senator from Michigan responded.On Today's Show:Kadia Goba, congressional reporter for Semafor, provides her analysis from the chamber, and her reporting on how Democrats have responded to Trump's speech

With RFK Jr. at the helm of the nation's health policies, we hear some public health analysis on his recent official actions from an expert on infectious diseases.On Today's Show:Jessica Malaty Rivera, epidemiologist, science communicator and PhD student at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, talks about the government's response to the ongoing measles outbreaks, why an FDA vaccine advisory committee meeting on planning next year's flu shot was cancelled and what it could mean for next year's flu season.

President Trump is being choosy about which reporters are allowed to cover him as part of the White House press pool.On Today's Show:Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief and the author of several books, including The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters (Simon & Schuster, 2024), talks about the latest national political news, including the White House's relationship with the media, and the tense negotiations last week with Ukrainian President Zelensky.

People opposed to the Trump administration have organized an economic boycott to demonstrate their opposition.On Today's Show:John Nichols, national-affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine and the author of, with Sen. Bernie Sanders, It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism (Crown, 2023), talks about today's planned protest boycotts and other responses by those opposed to the early Trump administration actions.

In this conversation with Paul Farhi, a former Washington Post reporter, the implications of Jeff Bezos's new directive for the newspaper’s opinion section are unpacked. Farhi explains how this shift towards advocating for personal liberties and free markets alters traditional editorial practices. He delves into the evolution of opinion journalism, discussing the impact of billionaire ownership on media integrity. The discussion raises crucial questions about the future of diverse perspectives in a changing media landscape.