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The graphic novel set in a fictional world where the January 6 insurrectionists overturned the 2020 presidential election.

Barbara Wallraff, contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author, Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words (Harper Collins, 2006), - on the need for...

The Supreme Court struck down DOMA and same-sex marriage is legal again in California. Troy Stevenson from the group Garden State Equality is here to sort out...

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) talks about her work in Washington, particularly her initial response to Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill', which just...

Wall Street and #MeToo; A bill to require restaurants to accept cash; Natural childbirth in NYC; Finding common ground between America's 'tribes'

In the second week of exploring the new Census Atlas of the United States, Marc Perry, chief of the Population Distribution Branch at the Census, maps out...

Dr. Thomas Frieden, New York City Commissioner in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, talks about the risks of contracting MRSA in New York City.

Elizabeth Glazer discusses the de Blasio administration's initiative to supervise non-violent defendants in their communities instead of detaining them in jail...

Warren Lehrer Author, and Judith Sloan Author, Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America (Norton , 2003) on their book

Michael Oxley, former congressman (R-OH 4th), co-sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley law, and Vice Chairman of NASDAQ, talks about what the law has accomplished in 5...

Yiannis Boutaris, the current mayor of Thessaloniki, discusses Greece's role in accepting refugees from ailing countries.

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At his final press conference of 2013, the first question asked of President Obama was "Was this the worst year of your presidency?" Ben Smith, editor-in-chief...

Salman Ahmad - musician, founder of the band Junoon, author and professor at Queens College - has been called "the Bono of Pakistan." He discusses his current...

How alarmed should New Yorkers be?

Your response to the debate

WNYC's Bob Hennelly and New Jersey State Assemblyman John Wisniewski respond to Governor Christie's big keynote address. PolitiFact's Bill Adair fact checks a...

There are exactly two weeks to go before Super Duper Tuesday, including the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut primaries, Democratic and Republican. Today,...

Frank Luntz, pollster, consultant and author of Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear, talks about the most important words of this...

Fans of the meatpacking district have campaigned for years to make the area--known for cobblestones and the smell of slaughtered cattle--a historic district....

A look at treatment options and why they are rarely used to treat people who suffer from alcohol use disorder.

Three House committees are starting to markup the healthcare reform bill. Brooklyn Congressman Anthony Weiner, a member of the Energy and Commerce committee,...

Writer and designer Warren Lehrer and poet Adeena Karasick discuss their artistic collaboration that evokes the re-opening of the world after COVID-19 shut it...

Just before the Iraq war, American diplomat Brady Kiesling made headlines by resigning in protest from the U.S. embassy in Athens. He looks at the effect of...

How well have you been paying attention to what happened in 2013? Brian tests your memory. Call 212-433-9692 to participate! And this year, you're playing for...

The makers of OxyContin reached a settlement with the state of Oklahoma over its role in the opioid epidemic. What does that mean for the crisis?

Anne Kadet, New York Magazine writer, and Cindy Caruso, senior vice-president of human resources at ING Investment Management, offer career advice to New...

On World Autism Day, John Elder Robison, author of the memoir, Look Me in the Eye, joins us after ringing the opening bell at the stock market. He's become a...

Less than 40 days to the election, President Trump won't commit to a peaceful transfer of power.

The Linux World conference wraps up this week in the Javits Center. Attendees are strategizing to hasten the spread the operating system which was invented as...

A new ICE policy threatens international students. An immigration lawyer and a member of the student senate at CUNY react.

Families with a member facing a mental health crisis have an alternative to 911: mobile crisis teams.

For Passover, two (comedic) takes on an unorthodox Haggadah for a more modern and relevant Seder.

Last Wednesday, Eric Duprey was killed when a plain clothes NYPD officer knocked him off a motorbike by throwing a picnic cooler at his head.

Former Army Captain Craig Mullaney studied first at West Point and then at Oxford. But was that the right education to lead troops into battle? Also:...

We will be checking in with local communities and discussing how the FEMA aid should be distributed throughout their neighborhoods. Domenic Recchia, City...

Listener calls on whether women are keeping their maiden names when they get married, or taking their husband's names.

How to help the eldest of the elderly; inside Donald Trump's admiration for Vladimir Putin; tabletop projects for the whole family to tackle.

Dario Moreno, professor of political science at Florida International University, discusses the importance of the Latino vote in Florida as the GOP primary...

WNYC's Jami Floyd discusses Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's approach to interpreting the Constitution, and her commitment to advancing equal rights over several...

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The New Yorker John Cassidy talks about the latest inflation report and how both parties are responding.

Time Magazine picks Pope Francis for its annual "Person of the Year" honors. Time Magazine contributor Howard Chua-Eoan talks about the new pontiff and why he...

Parents discuss why they are opting out of having their kids take the state's annual tests.

Dianne Morales, joins to lay out her plans for economic recovery post pandemic.

What bothers you about the secret service prostitution scandal from the recent summit in Colombia? The risk to the president? The prostitution itself? The...

Introducing Public Agenda's "Democracy Renewal Project" which hopes to restore trust in voting before the 2024 elections.

Is the war on digital piracy killing creativity? Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University Law professor and author of Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the...

President Bush is pulling ahead of John Kerry in the polls, less than two months before the election. Former Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile and former...

Michael Scherer, Time White House correspondent, talks about the selection of President Obama as Time's Person of the Year.

Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau looks back on 34 years in office, and weighs in on the debate surrounding the trial of 9/11 suspect Khalid...

The Democratic Congress has been in session for nearly three months, and is still deeply divided over what to do about Iraq. On our next program, your calls...

Personal stylist Allison Bornstein discusses why what we wear matters, how fashion can act as self-care, and talks about her recent book.

Manhattan has not joined the e-scooter revolution, but major cities in New Jersey are experimenting with e-scooter pilot programs. But how do citizens feel?

John Dickerson, Slate and CBS political analyst, and panelist on the Political Gabfest, discusses the latest in DC politics, from ongoing fiscal cliff...

Joan Gussow, professor emeritus of nutrition and education at Teacher's College of Columbia University and author of This Organic Life: Confessions of a...

Several NYC public schools are on the chopping block.

Nancy Pelosi faces another difficult leadership decision: After backing the loser for House Majority Leader, Pelosi is now considering a controversial choice...

Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng talks about his work on human rights in China, his new life in the United States, and his views on the Chinese...

Ezra Klein of The Washington Post and Andrew Rasiej of Personal Democracy Media, talk about the technological problems that have plagued the launch of the...

Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Spitzer gave their respective New York City and State budget addresses this week. WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly is following the...

New regulations on for-profit colleges issued by the Obama administration could change the educational landscape.

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The state of the city's finances and this year's budget process.

The ACLU of NJ on the Newark Police Dept.; ABC's Jake Tapper on the Bush tax cuts and the Democrats; the hows and whys of American scandals; and continuing our...

David Leonhardt, Washington bureau chief for The New York Times, goes through the stats that have been thrown around by Occupy Wall Street protesters and their...

How well do you know the geography of NYC and the vicinity?

The proposed East Side Coastal Resiliency Project aims to protect the city from the extreme weather that climate change will bring with it. What will it take...

Niall O'Dowd, publisher of the Irish Voice newspaper and chairman of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform - why an Irish lobby group is having an impact on...

True or False: the deficit is the ultimate issue in the election; using food stamps for soda; and James Wolfensohn on the World Bank.

Julia Preston, National Immigration Reporter for The New York Times, talks about the immigration and labor issues presented by the recent ICE (Immigration and...

Tom Scocca breaks down how LED technology is more complicated than flipping a switch.

Brad Lander, New York City comptroller, talks about the mayoral primary campaign, his alliance with Zohran Mamdani and the city budget.

Ask the Mayor; An Infrastructure Compromise; Retail Worker Exodus

Patricia Cohen, cultural reporter for The New York Times and the author of In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age, explains how "middle-aged" became a phase...

Vicente Calderon, editor of The Tijuana Press, and Amy Isackson, KPBS border reporter, talk about the spike in violence along the Mexico/U.S. border.

Joined by senior editor at Reason magazine, Damon Root, we look at the competing views of how the Supreme Court should operate.

Jack Hitt , journalist and author, Off the Road : A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain (Simon & Schuster, 1994), - on defining ethnicity and...

Red-eyed and groggy, Americans are waking up this morning and considering what the next four years will be like. The Brian Lehrer Show does four hours of...

Ellen Andrews, executive director of the The Connecticut Health Policy Project, answers questions on COBRA and other medical insurance programs for the...

Brian discusses the Department of Justice's federal probe into NYPD's Special Victims Division, which handles the department's sex crimes investigations.

The weekend blizzard dropped around 30 inches of snow. Mayor Bill de Blasio talks about what the city is doing to clean up, and listeners share their stories.

Hear how the federal budget deal would affect the New York region. Congress members Bill Pascrell and Carolyn Maloney weigh in. Plus: a debate on the 30-year...

With North Korea testing nukes near their border and the second mini stock market crash of the new year, how will China respond? Two analysts explain.

Is money the root of everything that's wrong in politics? Plus: Newt Gingrich on the GOP's "Pledge to America"; Todd Gitlin on Israel and the US; health...

Milton Allimadi, publisher of Black Star News, and Rosebell Kagumire, Ugandan journalist and editor at Channel 16, which reports on humanitarian conflict,...

National Review executive editor Reihan Salam tells us what to expect for Thursday's first debate among the top 10 Republican presidential contenders.

Greg David, editor of Crain's New York business, on the Mayor's optimism on the City economy

What would the movie Hair be without the scene at the Lake in Central Park? Or Ghostbusters II without Hook & Ladder Company 8 on No. Moore St? Or Big Business...

New research appears to confirm that firstborns have slightly higher IQ scores than their younger siblings. But what about all those other forms of...

Inside the biggest scandal in sports history in the new Oscar-nominated documentary, 'Icarus.'

New York Public Library president Dr. Paul LeClerc discusses the 100th birthday of the flagship 5th Avenue building and the role of the library over the next...

Jami Floyd's analysis of the Supreme Court's voting rights decision to uphold the Arizona laws, plus Trump's CFO and Cosby.

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TRussia Daily; Amazon Buys Whole Foods; Trump Sanctions Cuba; Arundhati Roy

Reihan Salam, columnist at The Daily and blogger for National Review Online's The Agenda, and David Woodard, Clemson University professor and Republican...

Stories of people who have made life partners of friends, upending current expectations that spouses would be our closest relationships.

Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator from Vermont (I), and author of The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class, talks...

A conversation about local transportation news, including MTA's fare hike and congestion pricing in New Jersey