The Brian Lehrer Show
Summary: Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Snap Judgment, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin and many others. © WNYC Studios
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A new proposal from the Democrats in Congress aims to tax billionaires’ unrealized gains in order to fund proposed social and climate programs. Helaine Olen, Washington Post opinion columnist focusing on politics and economics, breaks down how that tax might work and whether it is already dead on arrival.
Aja Romano, culture reporter for Vox, traces the history of American anxieties and cultural fears through Hollywood’s changing horror movie monsters.
As environmental lawyer Steven Donziger heads to prison for criminal contempt charges pushed by oil giant Chevron, Nation contributor James North details that case and the landmark legal victory against Chevron for pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Sheera Frenkel, New York Times technology reporter and author of, with Cecilia Kang, An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination, joins to discuss her latest reporting on Facebook's influence in India and across the globe.
Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, and Zach Williams, senior state politics reporter at City & State NY, review some of the competitive races in NYC and Nassau County. But first, City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez (10th District, Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill) fact-checks Curtis Sliwa's erroneous claim in last night's debate that he's not a citizen.
With the recent fatal shooting on the movie set of "Rust," Steve Wolf, weapons safety expert for films and founder of Science in the Movies, an organization that teaches STEM through stunt and special effects demonstrations, talks about how prop guns in movies are supposed to work and why real guns are sometimes used.
As Staten Island's Amazon Labor Union is one step closer to forming the country's first union at Amazon fulfillment centers. The worker coalition's president Chris Smalls discusses organizing and next steps. Jane McAlevey, organizer, senior policy fellow at the University of California at Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, The Nation's strike correspondent and author of A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Ecco, 2020), wraps up the strikes and labor actions happening nationally.
From getting lost to the rolodex, Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review and the author of 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet (Crown, 2021), goes through some of the things that went away with the rise of the internet. What’s an experience or activity that the internet took away? Do you think about getting lost, grimy payphones, the TV guide, being able to be unreachable for hours...Now: @PamelaPaulNYT on her book "100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet" 212-433-9262 — The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast (@BrianLehrer) October 26, 2021
Robert McCarthy, political reporter at The Buffalo News, discusses the mayoral race in Buffalo, in which the incumbent Byron Brown is running a write-in campaign urging voters to support him, despite his loss to India Walton in the Democratic primary. →Correction - It was later pointed out in the show that the capital of Vermont is Montpelier, not Burlington!
A group of New Yorkers filed a lawsuit to keep New York City's Open Restaurant program from becoming permanent, as the mayor has already announced. Chief among the concerns: noise, lack of street space for parking and biking, and rats. Listeners call in and talk about whether they're for or against outdoor dining as a forever addition to New York City's culinary landscape, and how the program could be improved. Should NYC make the Open Restaurants program permanent, or should outdoor dining go the way of to-go drinks, a pandemic exception + not a forever addition?What modifications could make the program better?Restaurant workers, diners, frustrated neighbors, call in: 212-433-9262 — The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast (@BrianLehrer) October 25, 2021
Amid negotiations for the $1 trillion-plus package in Congress, Democrats are now weighing whether to cut their plan to expand Medicare entirely. Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News and host of KHN's "What the Health" podcast, discusses the latest news.
WNYC reporter Jessica Gould discusses the city’s rollout of DESSA, a mental and emotional health test, as students settle back into school after pandemic isolation.
John Nichols, national-affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine and the author, most recently, of The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party (Verso, 2020), discusses the latest news on the "Build Back Better" bill in Washington, plus the bellwether governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey.
Staten Island Borough President James Oddo (R) quizzes listeners on how well they know Staten Island.
Luke Broadwater, congressional reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times, breaks down the latest on the budget reconciliation bill talks and how the House has voted to find Stephen Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for obstructing the investigation into the January 6th insurrection.
