Politics Brief

For our Ask a Reporter series, we're answering your questions about civic engagement. One thing we’ve learned so far about getting involved: sometimes it’s a good idea to start with your block. Just ask Blanche Romey, long-time Bushwick resident. 

In a new collection of essays called The Free Speech Century, leading First Amendment thinkers reflect on the law's trajectory over the last 100 years. On The Media's Brooke Gladstone spoke with co-editor Geoffrey Stone and law professor Laura Weinrib about how our free speech rights are still evolving. 

Cynthia Nixon speaks with Brian Lehrer to discuss her bid for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York.

Jarrett Murphy, executive editor of City Limits, and Ben Max, executive editor of Gotham Gazette, sat down with Brian Lehrer to discuss the competitive races and what's at stake in Thursday's primary election. 

After Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's primary upset against a long-time Democrat incumbent, Julia Salazar's Democratic Socialist campaign for State Senate gained a lot of steam. As a first-time candidate up against another longtime incumbent, Salazar's biography was a huge part of her appeal to voters in a north Brooklyn district that appeared open to her progressive politics. Now, a few items in this biography appear to have been false. 

Harry Siegel, Daily News columnist, spoke with WNYC's Richard Hake about what this means for the Democratic Socialists of America.

Jarrett Murphy, executive editor of City Limits, and Ben Max, executive editor of Gotham Gazette, sat down with Brian Lehrer to discuss the competitive races and what's at stake in Thursday's primary election. 

Everyone says the economy is doing great. Is it? Then why aren’t the Republicans and the President better positioned going into the midterms?

Joining Politics with Amy Walter to discuss are Lynn Vavreck, Hoffenberg Chair of American Politics at UCLA, Jim Tankersley, reporter covering economic and tax policy for the New York Times, Colin Gordon, senior research consultant at the Iowa Policy Project and Erika Franklin Fowler, Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University.

Ahead of the Sept. 13 primary, Zephyr Teachout, Letitia James, Sean Patrick Maloney and Leecia Eve -- all vying to be the next Democratic Attorney General of New York -- touted their qualifications and experience while debating issues on corruption, voting rights and economic inequality.

NPR White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe and TIME political correspondent Molly Ball sit down with the Brian Lehrer Show to talk this week in politics -- from the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing to policy proposals on the detention of immigrant children and the controversial New York Times op-ed on President Trump's "amorality."

New York Times staff writer Emily Bazelon joins Midday guest host Nancy Giles to discuss her latest piece in the New York Times Magazine, about the implications of the court system's move to right of the American public.