Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

The vitriol and tribalism in American politics has taken its toll on our civic society.

On Today's Show:
Dame Louise Richardson, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, talks about research into and strategies to reduce political polarization in the United States, especially in this fraught election year.

The presidential election news cycle continues to pick up steam ahead of November.

On Today's Show:
Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent for USA Today, talks about the news from Washington, including President Biden's speech, Netanyahu's visit, and the Harris campaign.

Micah Loewinger is the brand new co-host of WNYC's On the Media, who has covered the far right for the program, and once testified before Congress on his reporting ahead of the Jan.6 insurrection.

On Today's Show:
 Brooke Gladstone, co-host of WNYC's On The Media, and Micah talk about their plans for the show and how it might evolve.

President Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, throwing his support, and his existing campaign infrastructure to Vice President Kamala Harris.

On Today's Show:
Gabriel Debenedetti, national correspondent at New York Magazine and author of The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama (Henry Holt and Co., 2022), reports on the news from his position as a reporter steeped in Biden world. Plus, Democratic voters call in to share their thoughts and feelings on this huge shakeup to the campaign.

On today's show: Hakeem Jeffries  U.S. Representative (D NY-8th, Brooklyn) and House minority leader, talks about the debate engulfing the Democrats over whether President Biden should stay in the race.

When Republican vice presidential candidate, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), addressed the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, he said "America is not just an idea." Many took that as a  defense of a nationalism rooted more in the land and in identity.

On Today's Show:
Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent at Vox and the author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World (PublicAffairs, 2024), explores the resistance to democratic ideals that has always accompanied progress toward greater freedom and how that reactionary movement is active here and around the world.

As the Republican National Convention takes place this week, there may be a through line from pivotal speeches from the last 100 years to today.

On Today's Show:
Continuing our centennial series "100 Years of 100 Things," Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, NPR contributor, and author of several books and co-editor with Karen J. Greenberg of the forthcoming Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue (NYU Press, 2024), walks us through pivotal RNC speeches from the last 100 years.

On Monday at the Republican National Convention, Sen. J.D. Vance was announced as the V.P. pick and Sen. Tim Scott addressed the crowd.

On Today's Show:
Rev. Dr. William Barber, a Protestant minister, social activist, professor, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, president of Repairers of the Breach and the author of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy (Liveright, 2024), responds to their takes on poverty and argues that low-income Americans joining together represent "the largest potential swing vote in the country."

The Republican National Convention takes place this week in  Milwaukee, WI, this week, after an attempt to assassinate Donald Trump took place over the weekend.

On Today's Show:
Tamara Keith, senior NPR White House correspondent and co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast, talks about the latest national political news, including the fallout from the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally, after which both Republicans and Democrats called on Americans to "lower the temperature" politically, and the start of the Republican National Convention.

Thursday was the last day of the NATO summit in Washington, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic alliance.

On Today's Show:
Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many books, including The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Simon & Schuster, 2020), joins to recap the event, including a breakdown of President Joe Biden's press conference and what the 2024 election might mean for the future of the alliance.