Politics Brief

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to end Temporary Protected Status for 300,000 people, providing momentary relief for immigrants from Sudan, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Haiti. WNYC's Arun Venugopal reports.

Alexis Grenell, New York Daily News contributor and co-founder of the political affairs firm Pythia Public, joins The Brian Lehrer Show to talk about the impact of #MeToo in New York State with Erica Vladimer, co-founder of Sexual Harassment Working Group.

Trump, Inc. co-hosts Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz talk about the New York Times investigation that calls into question Pres. Trump's claims that he received little of his wealth from his father.

Though President Trump has claimed that trade wars are "easy to win," in states like North Dakota, Ohio, and Tennessee, the effects of protectionist tariffs on Chinese-made goods — and China’s sixty billion dollars in retaliatory duties — could give Democrats control of the Senate. On the New Yorker Radio Hour, staff writers John Cassidy and Sheelah Kolhatkar, parse how candidates in both parties are navigating a new economic order.   

On The Brian Lehrer Show, Steve Kornacki, national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, talks about today's headlines and his new book that looks back to the Clinton era as the start of today's hyper-partisanship, The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism. 

After the Supreme Court declined to get involved in a lower court case, advocacy groups must disclose donations to political non-profits. But opaque "dark money" practices may wall persist thanks to bureaucratic tangles and cash-flow workarounds. Joining On The Media to discuss is Michelle Ye Hee Lee, a national reporter for the Washington Post.

On The Brian Lehrer Show, hear from a few listeners about how they've felt first-hand the effects of healthcare policy. Then, Heather Howard, former associate director of the Domestic Policy Council during the Clinton administration, Robert Moffit, senior fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies and Ed Haislmaier, expert in prescription drug pricing at The Heritage Foundation, discuss how healthcare has changed under the Trump administration and debate: for better or for worse?

On The Brian Lehrer Show, hear from a few listeners about how they've felt first-hand the effects of healthcare policy. Then, Heather Howard, former associate director of the Domestic Policy Council during the Clinton administration, Robert Moffit, senior fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies and Ed Haislmaier, expert in prescription drug pricing at The Heritage Foundation, discuss how healthcare has changed under the Trump administration and debate: for better or for worse?

On season three of WNYC Studios' More Perfect, the team zooms in on the words of the people: the 27 amendments that We The People have made to our Constitution. They're taking on these 27 amendments both in song and in story. Episode One dives into the poetic dream behind the First Amendment.

The Takeaway's Amy Walter spoke with Professor Barbara Perry, Presidential Studies Director at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, about justices and the partisan divide, and Clare Malone, Senior Political Writer at FiveThirtyEight, about what the Kavanaugh hearings mean heading into the midterms.