The Brian Lehrer Show

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AO
 Aug 26, 2019
Brian is one of the best interviewers around.

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 Mar 27, 2019
Top Notch Interviews, Really Well Done, It's One of My Favorite Podcasts Out there!

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 Jul 11, 2018
Leonard is the king of WNYC and New York in general, providing glorious, locally focused news.

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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.

Episode Date
HHS & mRNA Vaccines Research Cuts
Aug 12, 2025
WNBA Players Say 'Pay Us What You Owe Us'
Aug 12, 2025
New York's Gambling History
Aug 12, 2025
The Ongoing Legionnaires' Outbreak
Aug 12, 2025
Trump's Tariffs Could Be Hard To "Dislodge"
Aug 11, 2025
Selling Eternal Life
Aug 11, 2025
How President Trump and His Tariffs Are Affecting NYC Tourism
Aug 11, 2025
Fun With Words
Aug 11, 2025
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Robert Reich; What to Know About ARFID; Gen Z Intimacy
Aug 09, 2025
Summer Friday: Project 2025; The Jersey Shore; Young Men & the Left; Decade-by-Decade Best Sellers
Aug 08, 2025
The Animal Shelters are Full
Aug 07, 2025
The Gen Z Intimacy Recession
Aug 07, 2025
How to Avoid an Onslaught of New Scams
Aug 07, 2025
Mamdani Analysis and More Campaign Politics
Aug 07, 2025
Meet the Mayoral Candidates: Zohran Mamdani
Aug 07, 2025
What to Know About the Eating Disorder ARFID
Aug 06, 2025
City Politics: Democrats Differ on Mamdani
Aug 06, 2025
Wednesday Morning Politics: A Raucous Town Hall in Nebraska and Other News from Congress
Aug 06, 2025
The Delacorte Theater Reopens With 'Twelfth Night'
Aug 06, 2025
Meeting People to Date IRL
Aug 05, 2025
Robert Reich's Critique of Fellow Boomers
Aug 05, 2025
FDA Panel's "Misinformation" on Antidepressant Use in Pregnancy
Aug 05, 2025
Segregation at NYC's Specialized High Schools
Aug 05, 2025
NPR's Song of the Summer
Aug 04, 2025
Monday Morning Politics With Rep. Torres
Aug 04, 2025
NASA's Reliance on Elon Musk
Aug 04, 2025
Mayor Adams' Campaign Submitted Faked and Fraudulent Signatures
Aug 04, 2025
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Drug Coverage; Fire & Floods; Explaining Sugars
Aug 02, 2025
The City's Newest Housing Plans
Aug 01, 2025
The Public Song Project Concert
Aug 01, 2025
The Fed's Interest Rate Decision, a Tariff Deadline and a New Jobs Report
Aug 01, 2025
Everything We Know About Jeffrey Epstein
Aug 01, 2025
How Your Social Media Feeds and Habits Have Changed
Jul 31, 2025
Private Insurers Cover Drugs Less Often Now
Jul 31, 2025
Fires, Floods, Air Quality & Climate Change
Jul 31, 2025
Answering the Texas Redistricting Strategy
Jul 31, 2025
Gun Control After a Mass Shooting in Midtown
Jul 30, 2025
Outdoor Workers Share Tips for Coping With the Heat
Jul 30, 2025
Report from Israel
Jul 30, 2025
City Politics: Candidates React to Midtown Office Shooting
Jul 30, 2025
Updates on the Midtown Office Shooting
Jul 29, 2025
Your Side Hustles
Jul 29, 2025
The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Jul 29, 2025
'Cane Sugar' vs High Fructose Corn Syrup
Jul 29, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency Flips on Greenhouse Gases
Jul 29, 2025
European Tariff Deal, Car Prices & The Economy
Jul 28, 2025
Plans for NYC Schools Cellphone Ban
Jul 28, 2025
Bringing Vacation Joy Back Home
Jul 28, 2025
Cuomo Analysis and More Campaign Politics
Jul 28, 2025
Meet the Mayoral Candidates: Andrew Cuomo
Jul 28, 2025
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Charter Revision Questions, HRT and the FDA, NYPD Cracks Down on Cyclists
Jul 26, 2025
Summer Friday: Building 'Abundance'; Bob Costas; Trans Women in Sports
Jul 25, 2025
Why & How to Get Plastic-Free Kitchens
Jul 24, 2025
The House Shuts Down Early Avoiding Epstein Drama
Jul 24, 2025
The Fears of Naturalized Citizens
Jul 24, 2025
The NYPD's Crackdown on Cyclists
Jul 24, 2025
Chefs Love Salt
Jul 23, 2025
Teaching History in This Fraught Time
Jul 23, 2025
Mehdi Hasan vs. the Far Right
Jul 23, 2025
City Politics: Summer Campaigning
Jul 23, 2025
The Upside of Doing Chores
Jul 22, 2025
Texas Goes Back to the Redistricting Drawing Board
Jul 22, 2025
HRT and the FDA
Jul 22, 2025
Charter Revision Questions Are Set
Jul 22, 2025
Saving Small Downtown Movie Theaters
Jul 21, 2025
Bike Lane Bedlam and a Subway Crime Showdown
Jul 21, 2025
Monday Morning Media Politics
Jul 21, 2025
Does Remote Work Hold Women Back?
Jul 21, 2025
Brian Lehrer Weekend: NYC Teachers & AI; Defining Antisemitism; 'Death & Taxes'
Jul 19, 2025
Ask Governor Murphy: July 2025 Recap
Jul 18, 2025
Columbia's Controversial New Definition of Antisemitism
Jul 18, 2025
Sportstalk: Caitlin Clark, Robo-Umps & More
Jul 18, 2025
Legal News Roundup: The DOJ and Emil Bove
Jul 18, 2025
Candidate Sliwa's Chances
Jul 17, 2025
The News From Your Block
Jul 17, 2025
The Senate Approved Cuts to NPR and PBS. What Happens Next?
Jul 17, 2025
Death and (Estate) Taxes
Jul 17, 2025
Meet the Mayoral Candidates: Curtis Sliwa
Jul 17, 2025
Your TV Recommendations
Jul 16, 2025
Why the Epstein Case is Dividing MAGA
Jul 16, 2025
Garry Kasparov on 'Autocracy in America'
Jul 16, 2025
City Politics: Mamdani Meets With Business Leaders; Cuomo's Officially in the Race
Jul 16, 2025
OMNY's Rocky Rollout Continues
Jul 15, 2025
NYC Teachers' Union Embraces AI
Jul 15, 2025
Public Health, Long COVID & Measles
Jul 15, 2025
Call Your Senator: Sen. Andy Kim on Disaster Relief, Foreign Policy and More
Jul 15, 2025
TSA Says: Keep Your Shoes On
Jul 14, 2025
Monday Morning Local Politics
Jul 14, 2025
Immigrants Allege 'Inhumane' Conditions at Manhattan Holding Sites
Jul 14, 2025
When TPS Ends
Jul 14, 2025
Meet the Mayoral Candidates: Jim Walden
Jul 14, 2025
Summer Friday: Contrapoints; Iconic New York Films; Cancer Research History & Roundtable
Jul 11, 2025
How Trump's Spending Law Will Change Student Loans
Jul 10, 2025
The DSA and the Mayoral Race
Jul 10, 2025
July's Shooting Stars
Jul 10, 2025
New Jersey's 'Red-Hot' Governor's Race
Jul 10, 2025
How Helping Can Feel Good
Jul 09, 2025
The Data of Mass Deportation
Jul 09, 2025
ConEd Wants to Charge You More Money
Jul 09, 2025
City Politics: The Candidates Strategize
Jul 09, 2025
All Of It's Summer Reading Challenge
Jul 08, 2025
What Students Lose When ChatGPT Writes Their Essays
Jul 08, 2025
How The 'Big Beautiful Bill' Is Bad for the Climate
Jul 08, 2025
Working Families Party Weighs in on Mamdani's Win
Jul 08, 2025
100 Years of 100 Things: You!
Jul 07, 2025
First Deputy Mayor on the Budget
Jul 07, 2025
Monday Morning Politics: Washington Reacts to Mamdani, Alligator Alcatraz, Texas Flooding and More
Jul 07, 2025
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Comptroller Lander; Tick Season; Young Voters for Mamdani
Jul 05, 2025
July 4th: 100 Years of America the Superpower; Frances Perkins; New Yorker Poetry; Blacklisting; Celia Cruz
Jul 04, 2025
Summer Best-Of: 100 Years of Summer Camp; Modernism; The Great Gatsby; and Preppy Fashion
Jul 03, 2025
An Abundance of Ticks
Jul 02, 2025
City Politics: Mamdani's Winning Streak Continues
Jul 02, 2025
The Voters Who Turned Out for Zohran Mamdani
Jul 02, 2025
Healthcare and the Federal Budget Bill
Jul 02, 2025
What Last Week's Blockbuster Decisions Mean for SCOTUS
Jul 01, 2025
Previewing the Results of Ranked Choice Voting
Jul 01, 2025
Gov. Hochul's Proposal for a New Nuclear Plant
Jul 01, 2025
Rent Guidelines Board Votes Amid Calls to 'Freeze the Rent'
Jul 01, 2025
The City Has a Budget Deal
Jul 01, 2025
Monday Morning Politics: Big, Beautiful Bill Heads to 'Vote-a-Rama'
Jun 30, 2025
Your 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Experiences
Jun 30, 2025
How Our Siblings Shape Us
Jun 30, 2025
Brad Lander Reflects on the Mayoral Campaign
Jun 30, 2025
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Zohran Mamdani; The Fight for Gay Rights; The NYC Democratic Party Machine
Jun 28, 2025
The NYC Communities That Powered Mamdani's Win
Jun 27, 2025
The Supreme Court's Final Opinions of 2025
Jun 27, 2025
Shahana Hanif on Her and Mamdani's Wins
Jun 27, 2025
Supreme Court on Planned Parenthood Funding and 'Third Country' Deportations
Jun 26, 2025
Call Your Senator: Sen Gillibrand on Trump's 'Big Beautiful Betrayal,' Mamdani's Victory and More
Jun 26, 2025
How Mamdani's Mass Politics Defeated the Establishment
Jun 26, 2025
Trump Ordered Military Action Without Congress' Approval
Jun 25, 2025
Mamdani Voters Take a Victory Lap
Jun 25, 2025
City Politics: Mamdani's Huge Night
Jun 25, 2025
NIMBY vs. YIMBY Housing Battles Continue
Jun 25, 2025
Zohran Mamdani on His Big Night
Jun 25, 2025
Primary Day Informal, Unofficial, Thoroughly Unscientific Exit Poll Take Two
Jun 24, 2025
100 Years of 100 Things: The Fight for Gay Rights
Jun 24, 2025
Primary Day Informal, Unofficial, Thoroughly Unscientific Exit Poll
Jun 24, 2025
How Black Lung Reemerged
Jun 24, 2025
Heat Emergency
Jun 23, 2025
Early Voting Numbers Roll In
Jun 23, 2025
The Mayoral Candidates Make a Final Pitch to Voters
Jun 23, 2025
Legal News Roundup: Trump and the California National Guard and More
Jun 20, 2025
Two Opinions on Andrew Cuomo
Jun 20, 2025
Are We Going To War With Iran?
Jun 20, 2025
The Mayoral Candidates on Transportation
Jun 20, 2025
Ask Governor Murphy: June 2025 Recap
Jun 19, 2025
A Doctor's Perspective on the SCOTUS Youth Gender Affirming Care Decision
Jun 19, 2025
Juneteenth at Lincoln Center
Jun 19, 2025
The Ad War in the Mayoral Primary
Jun 19, 2025