The Brian Lehrer Show

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

New York Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni analyzes the results of the midterm elections (First) | A post-election interview with Congressman-elect Brad Lander (Starts at 27:40) | WNYC and Gothamist reporter Brittany Kriegstein reports on the troubling statistics about domestic violence in New York City (Starts at 44:25)

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Tia Mitchell, Washington bureau chief for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and co-host of the Politically Georgia podcast, Blaise Gainey, Texas State Capitol reporter for The Texas Newsroom / KUT News and Maayan Schechter, reporter with South Carolina Public Radio and ETV, talk about the election results in Georgia, Texas and South Carolina, including the history made by Keisha Lance Bottoms as Georgia's first Black woman to be governor, Jon Ossoff's resounding re-election, the stunning blue turn for Texas in James Talarico's and Gina Hinojosa's wins and Dr. Annie Andrews's surprise win over Darline Graham.

Photo: Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms appears onstage during her election night watch party at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis on November 03, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Paras Griffin via Getty Images)

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Brittany Kriegstein, WNYC and Gothamist reporter talks about her reporting on the persistent problem of domestic abuse and shocking crimes in New York City, and Sharon Gandarilla-Javier, assistant professor at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice and former NYPD officer, offers her take on the problem as someone who has worked on and studied cases.

Photo: Laundromat worker holding a sign at the rally. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Thomas Frank, journalist, a founding editor of The Baffler, a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and the author of several books, including What’s the Matter With Kansas? and his latest, The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America's Biggest Racket (Penguin Press, 2026) talks about his new book that traces the roots of America's belief it must lead in technological innovation to the Cold War and argues that's a losing argument for workers, plus responds to the electoral shift in Kansas and other states and whether that represents a return to left-wing populism in the Midwest.

Photo: Thomas Frank, author of the bestseller "What's the Matter with Kansas" at his home in Tenleytown in 2004. (Susan Biddle/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Annie Karni, congressional correspondent for The New York Times and co-author of Mad House: How Donald Trump, Maga Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby and a Man with Rats in his Walls Broke Congress (Random House, 2025), talks about the election results giving Democrats control of both houses of congress in 2027 and what to expect.

Photo: U.S. Representatives of the 119th Congress are sworn in during the first day of session in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building  in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Ruth Igielnik, New York Times polling editor, talks about the voting trends in the election results.

Photo: People vote at a polling location on Election Day during the midterm elections in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz / AFP via Getty Images)

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Joe Hong, WNYC and Gothamist investigative data reporter, talks about the disparity in parent teacher association funding in New York City public schools, which he says reflects broader racial disparities in the school system.

Photo:  A parent crosses the street to drop off their child at P.S. 179 Kensington on December 07, 2020 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)

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Cori Marquis, deputy state director for the New York Working Families Party, shares the Working Families take on the election results in New York and nationally.

Photo: Ron Kim, Democratic challenger for Saratoga Mayor, comments on local GOP efforts to add their candidates under the Working Families Party. (Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)

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Listeners who are from (or have connections to) red states that flipped to blue in this year's midterms explain why they or those they know voted for Democrats this time around.

Photo: Supporters watch election results during a midterm election night watch party for Texas Democratic Senate candidate, State Rep. James Talarico at the Long Center on November 3, 2026 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell via Getty Images)

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Clare Malone, writer at The New Yorker and co-host of the new podcast Still Counting, digs into the results and exit polls of the midterm elections and offers analysis of the national picture, as Democrats win control of both houses of Congress, and several key swing-state governorships. 

Photo: Voters enter and exit a polling station during early voting for the midterm election in Hoboken, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

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