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Axelrod & Murphy ‘On Tap’

08.21.2019

David Axelrod, political strategist on both Obama presidential campaigns, CNN analyst, director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, and Mike Murphy, Republican campaign veteran, partner in the Revolution Agency, a strategic communications firm in Washington DC, ...

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08.21.2019 Axelrod & Murphy ‘On Tap’ David Axelrod, political strategist on both Obama presidential campaigns, CNN analyst, director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, and Mike Murphy, Republican campaign veteran, partner in the Revolution Agency, a strategic communications firm in Washington DC, ...
08.21.2019 The Crackdown in Kashmir Hafsa Kanjwal, assistant professor of South Asian History at Lafayette College, talks about the latest in the struggle between Kashmir and the surrounding region, and takes calls from listeners with ties to the area. the indians calling into the @BrianLehrer ...
08.21.2019 Are We Headed Towards Another Recession? Dean Baker, macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., discusses the latest economic news, including how some economists believe the United States is headed toward another recession, and how the Trump administration is ...
08.20.2019 The People's Hall of Fame Announces New Inductees Steve Zeitlin, executive director of City Lore, introduces 2019’s The People’s Hall of Fame awards honoring grassroots contributions to New York’s cultural life with some of this year’s inductees: Naima Rauam, artist whose subject matter is the Fulton Fish Market, ...
08.20.2019 How Are Police Officers Responding to Pantaleo's Firing? Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC reporter, Ashley Southall, reporter at The New York Times' Metro Desk, and Jumaane Williams, New York City Public Advocate, talk about the latest news and the public's reaction to Commissioner James O’Neill's announcement yesterday that the officer ...
08.20.2019 Slavery and the Lack of Universal Healthcare The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project is examining the legacy of slavery on the 400th anniversary of when the first enslaved people from Africa arrived in the United States. Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times editorial board member, and staff ...
08.20.2019 Sen. Merkley's Outrage at the Border Jeff Merkley, U.S. Senator (D-OR) and the author of America Is Better Than This: Trump's War Against Migrant Families (Twelve, August 20, 2019), talks about the Trump immigration policies, his proposed "Stop Cruelty to Migrant Children Act" and other national ...
08.19.2019 Monday Morning Politics with Elaina Plott Elaina Plott, White House correspondent for The Atlantic, discusses the latest political headlines.
08.19.2019 Homelessness on the Subways According to an official headcount, the number of homeless people sleeping in the subways is on the rise. Giselle Routhier, policy director at the Coalition for the Homeless, discusses what is contributing to the crisis and what Mayor de Blasio ...
08.19.2019 Candidate-By-Candidate: Warren and Sanders Listeners who support individual candidates call to share what they are thinking of the 2020 race so far. Can’t call, but it boils down to:1. He has been the leader in dragging the D party left.2. He’s the only candidate ...
08.19.2019 College President on Free Speech, Safe Spaces, and Diversity Michael Roth, historian, curator, and teacher and president of Wesleyan University, and author of Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses (Yale University Press, 2019), talks about how colleges can navigate ...
08.16.2019 American Politics and the White Southern Voter Co-authors of The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2019) Angie Maxwell, director of the Diane Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society and professor in Southern Studies at the ...
08.16.2019 Brian Lehrer Weekend: We Are Already at 2°C; Tracing the Alt-Right's Ideas Back to the Source; New Jersey’s Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. We Are Already at 2°C (First) \| Tracing the Alt-Right's Ideas Back to the Source (Starts at 35:51) \| New Jersey’s Aid in Dying for the Terminally ...
08.16.2019 How NYC's Subway Ads Got So Explicit Jonah Engel Bromwich, reporter for The New York Times Styles section, discusses the history and current controversy over sexually explicit advertising on New York City's subway system. Plenty of children had to endure years of having to see those Bodies ...
08.16.2019 Where Do Police Stand on the Gun Debate? The Philadelphia shoot out injuring 6 officers is a reminder that police are on the front line of America’s daily gun violence. Jennifer Dawn Carlson, sociologist at the University of Arizona and author of Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns ...
08.16.2019 #AsktheMayor: Pressure Cookers, Homeless Raid, Foreclosure, Mental Health, NYPD Geo-Location Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC. “What we do know now is there is no danger to people of the city,” @NYCMayor tells @BrianLehrer about pressure cookers found in ...
08.15.2019 America's Opioid Addiction Beth Macy, reporter and the author of, now out in paperback, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, tells the story of the opioid crisis.
08.15.2019 Was Woodstock Really a Revolution? Listeners call in to share their memories of Woodstock music festival. "if they remember it, they weren't actually there!" — jay cowit (@jaycowit) August 15, 2019 @BrianLehrer Lee Blumer was a part of the original group who helped put on ...
08.15.2019 It's Not Just Epstein: Jails Are Failing at Preventing Suicide Each year, more than 300 people take their lives while incarcerated in America’s jails. Christine Tartaro, professor of Criminal Justice at Stockton University, and Rosa Goldensohn, reporter for THE CITY, talk about how jails and prisons are failing at keeping ...
08.15.2019 We Are Already at 2°C Steven Mufson, business of climate change reporter at The Washington Post, talks about his recent reporting which shows that parts of New Jersey and Rhode Island are already experiencing extreme warning and surpassing the 2 degree Celsius limit which was ...
08.14.2019 New Jersey’s New Aid in Dying Law, Explained Susan Boyce, patient advocate volunteer with Compassion and Choices, an advocacy group to expand and improve end-of-life-options and care, talks about New Jersey’s Aid in Dying Law.
08.14.2019 Candidate-By-Candidate: Biden, Trump, Harris and Booker Listeners who support individual candidates call to share what they are thinking of the 2020 race so far. Senator Booker is steady and consistent. His policies are critically thought through much like addressing economic disparities in this country, reproductive rights, ...
08.14.2019 'An Eye For An Eye': Hong Kong Protests Update Elaine Yu Hong Kong correspondent for AFP News Agency, discusses and explains the latest developments from the Hong Kong airport protests.
08.13.2019 Novelist Rajia Hassib's 'A Pure Heart' Rajia Hassib, author of the book In the Language of Miracles, discusses her latest novel A Pure Heart (Viking, 2019), about two sisters, one who lives in New York City with her husband, a New York Times reporter from West ...
08.13.2019 Going Broke with Brokers' Fees As hordes of New Yorkers are scrambling to rent apartments ahead of September 1st when many leases are up, Robert Desir, staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society, and City Council Member Keith Powers (4th District, East Side) talk about ...
08.13.2019 What Trump's 'Public Charge' Rule Would Mean For NYC Steven Banks, commissioner of NYC's Department of Social Services, and Bitta Mostofi, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, talk about the rule change for legal non-green-card-holding immigrants and public assistance.
08.13.2019 NYPD News: Suicide, Crime Rates and Policing NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan talks about the NYC crime rate, suicide rates and the latest news from the NYPD.
08.12.2019 Jeffrey Epstein's Suicide and Conditions at MCC On Saturday morning, Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of trafficking girls for sex, hanged himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Katie Benner, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times where she covers the Justice Department, talks about the apparent ...
08.12.2019 Speak to the Speaker Corey Johnson, Speaker of the New York City Council, talks about the latest from the City Council — and takes calls from listeners.
08.12.2019 Tracing the Alt-Right's Ideas Back to the Source Alexandra Minna Stern, a professor of American Culture, History, and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, where she leads the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab, and the author of Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is ...
08.12.2019 Monday Morning Politics: Families in Despair over Ice Raids and Gun Violence Beth Fouhy, senior politics editor at NBC News and MSNBC, discusses the latest political news including the largest immigration raids in recent history at chicken processing plants in Mississippi, the continuing debate over gun violence in this country, and the ...
08.09.2019 Brian Lehrer Weekend: Remembering Toni Morrison, 'Lookback Window' Opens; Saying 'Farewell' Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Remembering Toni Morrison (First) \| 'Lookback Window' Opens (Starts at 30:02) \| Saying 'Farewell' (Starts at 55:16) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on ...
08.08.2019 Commissioner Bratton on Gun Violence in NYC William J. Bratton, former NYPD police commissioner, talks about gun violence in New York City and nationwide.
08.08.2019 Arab Women Reporters Reflect Zahra Hankir, a Lebanese-British journalist who covers the intersection of politics, culture, and society in the Middle East and recently edited the collection of essays called Our Women on the Ground, Essays by Arab Women reporting from the Arab World, ...
08.08.2019 Remembering Toni Morrison Listeners call in to share their favorite quotes, passages and books written by the late Noble Prize-winning author, Toni Morrison.
08.08.2019 How to Talk About White Supremacy Going into 2020 Eugene Scott, Washington Post reporter covering identity politics, breaks down the latest political headlines including President Trump's trips to El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, after the mass shootings in those cities and how leaders from both sides of the ...
08.07.2019 The 'Lookback Window' Opens Mara Silvers, WNYC's All Things Considered producer, talks about the expected flood of lawsuits as the Child Victims Act goes into effect on August 14 with its one-year "lookback window" extending the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse.
08.07.2019 #DisabledAndCute Keah Brown, journalist and disability rights advocate, creator of the #DisabledAndCute social media campaign and the author of The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me (Atria Books, 2019), talks about ...
08.07.2019 U.S. and China Forever Trade War Ana Swanson, who writes about trade and international economics for the New York Times, discusses the latest updates on the U.S. trade war with China.
08.07.2019 Guns and the City: Your Experiences of Gun Violence in NYC Brian Cunningham, director of Neighbors in Action, a non-profit group that seeks to mediate violence in central Brooklyn, discusses the rise in acts of gun violence in New York City and listeners share their experiences.
08.06.2019 Is NYC's Summer Free Lunch Program Working? Kids in New York City can get a free lunch once school's out for the summer but most of meals are left on the table. Founder of the New York City School Healthy Food Alliance and journalist who covers food ...
08.06.2019 The Internet, Social Media and Extremism Andrew Marantz, editorial staffer at The New Yorker and the author of the forthcoming Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Viking, 2019) talks about the role social media is playing in recent white nationalist shootings.
08.06.2019 Guns and Extremism: Why Young Men are Susceptible to Extreme Viewpoints Jamil Jivani, lawyer, community activist, co-founder of Our Ohio Renewal and the author of Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It (All Points Books, 2019), shares his knowledge on the attraction ...
08.06.2019 Labor in the US Steven Greenhouse, former New York Times labor and workplace reporter discusses the history of the U.S. labor movement and his new book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Knopf, 2019)
08.05.2019 Trump Addresses the Nation After Back-to-Back Massacres A total of 29 people were killed in the unrelated mass shootings over the weekend. As the President addresses a nation, divided over how to solve the crisis of gun violence, John Nichols, The Nation national affairs correspondent, and Adriano ...
08.05.2019 FBI Warns: Conspiracies Are a Form of Domestic Terrorism Jana Winter, Yahoo News Contributor, talks about Yahoo News' exclusive investigation which found that, for the first time, the FBI is classifying fringe conspiracy theories as domestic terrorism. "At one point in American society some 60-80% of people believed in ...
08.05.2019 Kissing Evangelicalism Goodbye? Best-selling author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Joshua Harris recently announced he is no longer a Christian, sending waves of shock throughout the evangelical world. Pete Enns biblical scholar, podcaster and author of How the Bible Actually Works (HarperOne, 2019), ...
08.05.2019 Judge’s Ruling Calls for Firing of Officer Pantaleo Over Garner Death Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC reporter, and Rocco Parascandola, NY Daily News police bureau chief and author of GUNZ AND GOD: The Life of an NYPD Undercover (Lulu Publishing Services, 2017), talk about the NYPD administrative judge's ruling that calls for Officer ...
08.02.2019 Brian Lehrer Special Coverage: NYPD Judge Says Officer in Eric Garner Case Should Be Fired An administrative judge with the New York Police Department has recommended that Officer Daniel Pantaleo be fired for his role in the 2014 death of Eric Garner. Brian Lehrer and WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez break down the mayor's press conference responding ...
08.02.2019 Brian Lehrer Weekend: The Politics of Abortions Rights and Planned Parenthood; Sonia Nazario on "Pay or Die" Corruption in Honduras; Beyond Charlottesville Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. The Politics of Abortions Rights and Planned Parenthood (First) \| Sonia Nazario on "Pay or Die" Corruption in Honduras (Starts at 30:02) \| Beyond Charlottesville (Starts at ...

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