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01.24.2020

Darren Linvill, associate professor at Clemson University, describes the scope of the politics-focused Twitter bots shaping online conversations about the 2020 campaign and looking to influence U.S. elections.

The Brian Lehrer Show episodes:

01.27.2020 Sexual Assault Survivors Call for Cy Vance Resignation Marissa Hoechstetter, survivor, former patient of Robert Hadden, and founder of Reform the Sex Crimes Unit, talks about why sexual assault survivors are pushing for the resignation of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr., claiming he has shown a pattern ...
01.27.2020 One Week to Iowa Gabriel Debenedetti, national correspondent for New York Magazine, reports on the final week before the Iowa caucuses, with a four-way tie, and the impeachment keeping the Senators in DC. Plus, Gothamist’s Christopher Robbins reports back from his trip to Iowa.
01.27.2020 Your Quittin' Time Stories Earlier this month, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, quit the British monarchy. On Thursday, Andy Byford, president of the New York City Transit Authority, quit his post. Listeners call in to share the jobs and careers ...
01.27.2020 Ukraine Was Political, Does That Make It Impeachable? Josh Blackman, constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston, talks about his recent New York Times op-ed and argues it's not appropriate to impeach a politician for acting in his own political interests.
01.24.2020 Fake Twitter Bots Want to Be Your Friend Darren Linvill, associate professor at Clemson University, describes the scope of the politics-focused Twitter bots shaping online conversations about the 2020 campaign and looking to influence U.S. elections.
01.24.2020 Is It the End of Fairway? New York institution Fairway Markets is selling off its stores as part of a bankruptcy filing. Soma Biswas, covers bankruptcy and restructuring for The Wall Street Journal and WSJ Pro Bankruptcy, talks about what's happening to Fairway and how its ...
01.24.2020 Donald Trump vs The Presidency Lawfare’s executive editor Susan Hennessey and editor in chief Benjamin Wittes, senior fellows at the Brookings Institution, discuss the impeachment trial and their new book, Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office (Farrar, Straus and ...
01.24.2020 Remembering Jim Lehrer Retired PBS anchorman and presidential debate moderator, Jim Lehrer, passed away today. The Brian Lehrer Show pays tribute to him (and no, they're not related).
01.24.2020 #Ask the Mayor: MTA Shakeups, Rezoning SoHo, Fairway Market New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
01.23.2020 Items Lost on Subway? Dial 511 Each year, thousands of items fall through subway grates or on the subway tracks. New York Times reporter, Sandra Garcia talks about her experience getting her AirPods back and how you can do the same.
01.23.2020 Brian Lehrer Weekend: Eric Adams Defends 'Go Back to Iowa'; Avoiding the Doctor Because of Costs; Can the 2020 Democrats Play Nice? Hear three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them: Eric Adams Defends 'Go Back to Iowa' Comments (First) \| #PriceCheckNYC: Avoiding Care Because of the Money (Starts at 23:00) \| Can the 2020 Democrats Play ...
01.23.2020 Gov. Cuomo's 2020 Budget and the City Fred Mogul, WNYC state government and politics reporter, and Josefa Velasquez, senior reporter for The City, recap Governor Cuomo's 2020 budget proposal, including his plan to shrink the $6 billion projected shortfall. Most of the gap is from Medicaid, which ...
01.23.2020 Can the 2020 Democrats Play Nice? Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine, talks about the Warren/Sanders spat and other 2020 campaign news.
01.23.2020 Impeachment Juror: Sen. Chris Murphy U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D CT) talks about the ongoing impeachment trial in the Senate, including what he expects from the president's legal team today, whether everyone is paying attention (yes) and what liquids are allowed on the Senate floor ...
01.22.2020 #PriceCheckNYC: Avoiding Care Because of the Money WNYC, in partnership with Gothamist and Clear Health Costs, offers a new community health sharing tool which will give listeners a chance to compare the costs of their medical procedures. Jeanne Pinder, founder and CEO of Clear Health Costs, and ...
01.22.2020 BP Adams Defends 'Go Back to Iowa' Comments Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams discusses the latest city news, including how New York City can begin to address its problem with gentrification.
01.22.2020 Behind the Scenes at the Trump White House Philip Rucker, Washington Post White House bureau chief, and Carol Leonnig, Washington Post national investigative reporter, the co-authors of A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America (Penguin Press, 2020), go behind the scenes to report in depth ...
01.22.2020 Impeachment Trial Recap and Previewing What's Ahead Anita Kumar, White House correspondent and associate editor for Politico, goes over what happened in the Senate's impeachment trial yesterday, and previews what's to come.
01.21.2020 'May the Best Woman Win' 2020 Mara Gay, New York Times editorial board member, talks about the board's decision to break with precedent and endorse two candidates, Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, to be the Democratic nominee for president.
01.21.2020 Six Steps for Saving Democracy Bob Garfield, co-host of WNYC's On the Media and the author of American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves (Counterpoint, 2020), offers his analysis of the state of American democracy (not good) and six steps toward saving it.
01.21.2020 How Some Long Islanders Want to Change Bail Reform Laura Curran, Nassau County executive, talks about the changes she — and at least some of her suburban constituents — would like to see to New York's new bail reform law.
01.21.2020 The Senate Trial: Day One Jeremy Stahl, senior editor of Slate, discusses the latest impeachment news as the first day of the Senate trial gets underway.
01.20.2020 Textbook Politics Dana Goldstein, education reporter for The New York Times and the author of The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession (Doubleday, 2014), read thousands of pages of American History textbooks to find differences in what students are ...
01.20.2020 Patrisse Cullors Remembers Martin Luther King Jr. Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, and the author of (written with asha bandele, now in paperback), When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (St. Martin's Press, 2018), talks about how young Black Americans respond ...
01.20.2020 Teachers Share How They Teach MLK & Race Teachers call in to share how they teach their students about Martin Luther King, Jr.
01.20.2020 Gun Proponents Rally in Virginia Mallory Noe-Payne, reporter for Virginia Public Radio, joins from the gun rights rally happening today in Richmond, Virginia.
01.20.2020 Impeachment Trial Preview Who are the impeachment managers? What will the rules of the Senate trial be? Alana Abramson, Congressional reporter for Time Magazine, brings us the latest and tells us what to expect when the trial gets underway on Tuesday.
01.17.2020 Puerto Rico's Ongoing Trauma After a series of earthquakes have threatened the already fragile Puerto Rico, which is still recovering from 2017's Hurricane Maria, Yarimar Bonilla, political anthropology professor and professor in the department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College ...
01.17.2020 The Warren Court's Legacy David Strauss, law professor and the faculty director of the Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic at the University of Chicago and the author of The Living Constitution and the co-author of Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the ...
01.17.2020 Impeachment: The Schumer Playbook Burgess Everett, POLITICO congressional reporter, discusses the strategy that Senate Democrats will use as the impeachment trial in the Senate gets underway.
01.17.2020 Speak to the Speaker: Medallion Bailout; Coney Island Rents; Bail Reform; and More New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson talks about this week's news in the city and answers listeners' questions, including the complications around a possible taxi medallion owners' bailout plan, the rent increases for Coney Island businesses, the new bail ...
01.16.2020 The State of the State of New Jersey; Roz Chast and Patricia Marx; A Never-Trumper's 2020 Book for Democrats Hear three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them: The State of the State of New Jersey (First) \| Couples Advice in Words and Pictures (and Music) (Starts at 30:00) \| A Never-Trumper's 2020 Book ...
01.16.2020 Your 21st Century Job Adam Davidson, New Yorker staff writer, co-founder of NPR's Planet Money, CEO of the podcast production company Three Uncanny Four, and the author of The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century (Knopf, 2020) argues the ...
01.16.2020 Cecile Richards Talks About E.R.A., 2020 and 'Making Trouble' Cecile Richards, co-founder of Supermajority, former president of Planned Parenthood and author of Make Trouble Young Readers Edition: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2019), talks about a life in activism, politics ...
01.16.2020 The State of the State of New Jersey Earlier this week New Jersey Governor Murphy delivered the annual State of the State address. Matt Friedman, reporter for Politico New Jersey and author of New Jersey Playbook, talks about the governor's priorities and other political news from the Garden ...
01.16.2020 Lev Parnas Implicates Trump David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst, current professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a former White House adviser to four presidents, talks about the current impeachment news, and discusses what it was like inside the Nixon and Clinton ...
01.15.2020 Couples Advice in Words and Pictures (and Music) Roz Chast, New Yorker cartoonist, author of the graphic memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant, and Patricia Marx, New Yorker contributor, former writer for Saturday Night Live and the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon, team up ...
01.15.2020 Kristof and WuDunn on Challenges in Rural America New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, and writer and former Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter Sheryl WuDunn, spouses and co-authors of Tightrope: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope (Knopf, January 14, 2020), share what they came to understand about how and ...
01.15.2020 The Final Debate Before Iowa Karine Jean-Pierre, chief public affairs officer of MoveOn, political activist and analyst and the author of Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America (Hanover Square Press, 2019), offers a recap and analysis of the ...
01.15.2020 Impeachment Managers Named Live coverage of Speaker Pelosi’s press conference announcing the impeachment managers, then Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, co-host of the podcast Politics and Polls, and co-author of the forthcoming Burning Down ...
01.14.2020 The Disunited States F.H. Buckley, George Mason School of Law professor and the author of American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020), offers a modest proposal to split the country into two smaller pieces.
01.14.2020 Listener Connections to the Australia Fires Since September over 24 million acres of Australia have caught fire, in one of the worst natural disasters of its kind in the country’s history. Umair Irfan talks about the environmental and human costs of the fire, its connection to ...
01.14.2020 SCOTUS Hears Arguments on Bridgegate The Supreme Court heard arguments on Bridgegate. Jami Floyd, WNYC's legal editor and host of All Things Considered, breaks down the legal issues at hand. Plus: WNYC reporter Matt Katz, who was in the room for the Bridgegate arguments - ...
01.14.2020 Bucking Palace Norms Last week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, stunned fans by announcing their decision to split from the royal family. Elizabeth Holmes, fashion journalist and author of the forthcoming book, HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style ...
01.14.2020 No Impeachment Witnesses Means, No Drama Quinta Jurecic, managing editor of Lawfare, talks about why the most riveting civic event of the decade -- President Trump's impeachment trial -- may not find an audience.
01.13.2020 A Never-Trumper's 2020 Book for Democrats Rick Wilson, former Republican political strategist, political commentator and the author of Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--and Democrats from Themselves (Crown, 2020), argues the 2020 presidential election is the Democrats to lose, and weighs ...
01.13.2020 Is NYC Actually Recycling and Composting Its Waste? Each year, businesses and homes in New York City generate millions of tons of trash. Danielle Muoio, City Hall reporter for POLITICO New York, breaks down her reporting on how little waste ends up getting recycled and composted, despite the ...
01.13.2020 The Most Checked-Out Book Of All Time at the NYPL The classic children's book The Snowy Day is the most checked out book in The New York Public Library’s 125-year history. Anthony Marx, president and CEO of the New York Public Library, and Lynn Lobash, assistant director of readers services ...
01.13.2020 The News from Washington on Impeachment and More Heather Caygle, Congress reporter for Politico, talks about the latest development into the Democrats' impeachment inquiry, and other national politics.
01.10.2020 How the Trumps and the Kushners Got to the White House Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy for WNYC News and co-host of the podcast Trump Inc. and the author of American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power (W. W. Norton & Company ...

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The Brian Lehrer Show episodes:

Sexual Assault Survivors Call for Cy Vance Resignation

One Week to Iowa

Your Quittin' Time Stories

Ukraine Was Political, Does That Make It Impeachable?

Fake Twitter Bots Want to Be Your Friend

Is It the End of Fairway?

Donald Trump vs The Presidency

Remembering Jim Lehrer

#Ask the Mayor: MTA Shakeups, Rezoning SoHo, Fairway Market

Items Lost on Subway? Dial 511

Brian Lehrer Weekend: Eric Adams Defends 'Go Back to Iowa'; Avoiding the Doctor Because of Costs; Can the 2020 Democrats Play Nice?

Gov. Cuomo's 2020 Budget and the City

Can the 2020 Democrats Play Nice?

Impeachment Juror: Sen. Chris Murphy

#PriceCheckNYC: Avoiding Care Because of the Money

BP Adams Defends 'Go Back to Iowa' Comments

Behind the Scenes at the Trump White House

Impeachment Trial Recap and Previewing What's Ahead

'May the Best Woman Win' 2020

Six Steps for Saving Democracy

How Some Long Islanders Want to Change Bail Reform

The Senate Trial: Day One

Textbook Politics

Patrisse Cullors Remembers Martin Luther King Jr.

Teachers Share How They Teach MLK & Race

Gun Proponents Rally in Virginia

Impeachment Trial Preview

Puerto Rico's Ongoing Trauma

The Warren Court's Legacy

Impeachment: The Schumer Playbook

Speak to the Speaker: Medallion Bailout; Coney Island Rents; Bail Reform; and More

The State of the State of New Jersey; Roz Chast and Patricia Marx; A Never-Trumper's 2020 Book for Democrats

Your 21st Century Job

Cecile Richards Talks About E.R.A., 2020 and 'Making Trouble'

The State of the State of New Jersey

Lev Parnas Implicates Trump

Couples Advice in Words and Pictures (and Music)

Kristof and WuDunn on Challenges in Rural America

The Final Debate Before Iowa

Impeachment Managers Named

The Disunited States

Listener Connections to the Australia Fires

SCOTUS Hears Arguments on Bridgegate

Bucking Palace Norms

No Impeachment Witnesses Means, No Drama

A Never-Trumper's 2020 Book for Democrats

Is NYC Actually Recycling and Composting Its Waste?

The Most Checked-Out Book Of All Time at the NYPL

The News from Washington on Impeachment and More

How the Trumps and the Kushners Got to the White House

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