Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

With the ongoing war in Ukraine and the leaked news that President Biden is sending some troops to Somalia, we asked an international affairs expert to explain the latest geopolitics. On Today's Show: Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post columnist, host of CNN’s "Fareed Zakaria GPS," and the author of Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), offers his analysis of the Biden...

How has social media shaped society, and particularly, how has it contributed to some of the violence and bigotry we see in our culture today? On Today's Show: It may have begun with promise, but Jonathan Haidt , social psychologist for New York University's Stern School of Business, argues that social media has ripped apart the fabric of society over the past decade. He offers his analysis, and t...

In politics, popularity is about selling a policy agenda to the public. On Today's Show: Bill de Blasio , former mayor of New York City, draws from his experience and offers advice to President Biden and the Democratic Party on messaging. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

As the changing climate continues to shape the planet, and some of the crises that humanity faces while living on it, we explore mental health, and the ethics of having kids. On Today's Show: Britt Wray , Human and Planetary Health Fellow at Stanford University and author of the new book Generation Dread, talks about how climate anxiety can affect people's decisions on whether to have children, or...

With baby formula shortages and rising grocery costs, we explore the economic situation in the US and around the world. On Today's Show: Greg Ip , chief economics commentator at The Wall Street Journal , talks about the latest news on the economy, including the persistent high prices, the stock market sell-off and more as President Biden insists inflation is the administration's highest priority....

President Obama's attorney general has a new book out about voting rights. On Today's Show: Eric Holder , former U.S. attorney general under Pres. Obama, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and Sam Koppelman , author and director of surrogate speech-writing on the Biden-Harris presidential campaign, talk about their new book, Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Impe...

With SCOTUS likely to overturn Roe v. Wade, a Congressman explained what Dems in Congress could do to enshrine reproductive rights into federal law. On Today's Show: U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn and Queens), House Democrats chairman, talks about the Alito draft opinion overturning Roe, and the Democrats' outlook for the midterms. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company....

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, it still won't mean the end of lower court battles over abortion rights. On Today's Show: Nancy Northup , president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is the lead litigator in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, discusses the status of abortion rights today, and what a Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade would mean....

A new book details previously unreported events from the January 6th insurrection. In light of the Supreme Court possibly overturning Roe, we look at the state of the political right, now. On Today's Show: Alexander Burns , national political correspondent for The New York Times, political analyst for CNN, and the co-author (with Jonathan Martin) of This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle...

Abortions won't stop if Roe is overturned, but the future of abortion access would certainly look different than it does today. On Today's Show: Jessica Bruder , Brooklyn-based journalist and author of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), talks about her reporting for The Atlantic on the underground network of activists who have been preparing fo...

A leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade's abortion precedent casts uncertainty over the future of reproductive rights. On Today's Show: Mary Ziegler , professor at Florida State University College of Law, currently a visiting professor of constitutional law at Harvard and the author of Abortion and the Law in America: A Legal History, Roe v. Wade to the Present (Cambridge...

Over the weekend, the D.C. press and President Biden's White House gathered for an evening of good-natured political jest. So who joked about whom? And more Monday morning politics. On Today's Show: Jonathan Lemire , White House bureau chief at Politico, host of Way Too Early on MSNBC and NBCNews analyst and Darlene Superville , White House reporter for The Associated Press and the co-author (with...

One of the central issues at the upcoming Summit Of The Americas is migration, and how to address deportation and asylum cases. On Today's Show: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell , former Congresswoman from Florida, now special advisor on the Summit of the Americas to the U.S. Department of State, discusses the State Department's priorities at the upcoming Summit of the Americas gathering related to climate...

A judge in New York State just shot down the Democrats' proposed new map of electoral districts. On Today's Show: Jon Campbell , Albany reporter for WNYC/Gothamist, explains what this means for the upcoming primary elections and eventually the midterms and the makeup of the House of Representatives. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection...

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand dropped by to talk about her international trip to sure up global support for Ukraine. On Today's Show: Kirsten Gillibrand , U.S. Senator (D-NY), talks about her recent overseas trip and and speaks with constituents about issues closer to home. Plus , a preview of a new true crime podcast from WNYC: New Jersey politics is not for the faint of heart. But the brutal killin...

It's been over a year since President Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol to overturn the election of Joe Biden. Since then, he's worked to block investigations into the event. On Today's Show: Andrea Bernstein, investigative journalist, and the author of American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power (W.W. Norton and Co, 2020) and Ilya Marritz, who covers Tru...

The Supreme Court recently that Puerto Ricans were ineligible for some disability benefits. What does it mean for boricuas, and their relationship with the mainland US? On Today's Show: Yarimar Bonilla , professor of Puerto Rican Studies and Anthropology at the City University of New York, monthly columnist at El Nuevo Dia , and incoming director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter Co...

The geopolitical and cultural drivers behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine have a religious dimension, and the conflict is causing tension within the Eastern Orthodox Church. On Today's Show: With Eastern Orthodox Easter this weekend, Ishaan Tharoor , Washington Post columnist and author of Today's WorldView , the Post's international affairs newsletter, examines the Russian church's support of the...

With states around the nation moving to legalize weed, it's worth considering how employers might test for impairment on the job. On Today's Show: As legal recreational cannabis sales roll out in New Jersey, Alyson Martin , co-founder of Cannabis Wire and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, discusses the complicated laws behind testing for the drug for profe...

It's been 8 months since the United States withdrew from Afghanistan. Why hasn't the Taliban government allowed girls to return to the classroom, as they said they would? On Today's Show: Karen DeYoung , Washington Post associate editor and senior national security correspondent, talks about the latest in Afghanistan with girls' education and the economic impact of the country's frozen bank assets...

French citizens in France and abroad will head to the polls for the presidential election this weekend. On the ballot: the current president, Emmanuel Macron, the far right, anti-immigrant nationalist Marine Le Pen. On Today's Show: Roger Cohen , Paris bureau chief for The New York Times , discusses what's at stake as French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen head to t...

One of the few Black Republicans to serve in Congress discusses partisanship around the country, in his home state, and some of the GOP's policy agenda's including abortion bans and more. On Today's Show: Will Hurd , former member of Congress (R - TX 23rd), CIA undercover officer, and cybersecurity executive, now an officer at the private investment bank Allen & Company and the author of American...

We asked a Nobel laureate economist about one of the top issues on voters' minds as we go into this year's midterm elections: inflation. On Today's Show: Paul Krugman , Nobel laureate in economics, New York Times columnist, distinguished professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and the author of Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future (W. W...

After a shooter injured several people on a NYC subway car, we discuss the weapon, and how it wound up in the hands of a violent individual.  On Today's Show: Ann Givens , public safety editor for WNYC/Gothamist, and Paul Barrett , deputy director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and the author of Glock: The Rise of America's Gun (Broadway Books, 2013), talk about the gun used...

On today's show: NY Governor Kathy Hochul addresses the subway shooting, the arrest and resignation of Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin on bribery and campaign fraud charges, as well as the state budget and news from the state capitol. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.