The Brian Lehrer Show

At a White House lunch this week, tech executives signed a voluntary safety pact on AI. Gabby Miller, AI and tech congressional reporter at Politico, discusses the details of the agreement.

Photo: US President Donald Trump, seated next to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (2L) and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L), speaks during a meeting with technology executives about artificial intelligence, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 29, 2026. (Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)

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Maggie Mertens, journalist, author of Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women (Algonquin, 2024) and host of "The Forecast: Seattle’s Weekly Women’s Sports Show" on KVRU 105.7FM, talks about her Slate article on the Trump administration's stated goal of "protecting" women's sports, while cutting the staff at the Department of Education that would investigate violations.

Photo: Female football players huddling together (Stock image by Rawpixel via iStock / Getty Images Plus)

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Listeners call in to share how they're talking to their high school and college-aged kids about the alleged gang rape at Cornell University, and all the issues it's bringing up about consent, bystanders and the role of colleges in keeping students safe.

Photo: Students walk on the campus of Cornell University a day after on September 30, 2026, in Ithaca, New York. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Mike Hayes, WNYC/Gothamist reporter covering New Jersey and the author of The Secret Files: Bill De Blasio, The NYPD, and the Broken Promises of Police Reform (Kingston Imperial, 2023), talks about another key issue from Sunday's debate between U.S. Rep. Tom Kean, Jr and his Democratic challenger Rebecca Bennett -- deportations, ICE and the proposed detention center in Roxbury.

Image: Debate screenshot via C-SPAN

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Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps Mayor Mamdani's appearance on the show, plus discusses her story on the revamp of the Hunts Point market that fell apart in the South Bronx, and the mayor's new plan on how to combat antisemitism.

Photo: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a news conference to announce a lawsuit challenging the federal government's new public charge rule, which could make it harder for immigrants to obtain green cards if they rely on public benefits, at City Hall in New York City on September 14, 2026. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images)

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Alexandra Brodsky, civil rights lawyer and author of Sexual Justice: Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash (Henry Holt 2021), unpacks a recent lawsuit against Cornell University alleging the administration of negligence in their investigation and handling of a reported gang rape, and what the Cornell case tells us about the state of Title IX and sexual assault on college campuses.

Photo: A student walks on the campus of Cornell University on September 29, 2026, in Ithaca, New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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As part of the yearlong series "Wild NYC," Marielle Anzelone, urban botanist and ecologist and the founder of NYC Wildflower Week, and Rob Pirani, senior director for Engagement and Policy/Program and director of the NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program at the Hudson River Foundation, discuss the wildlife all around the waterfront.

Photo: A great egret takes flight during the World Series of Birding, 12 May 2007, in an estuary in Cape May, New Jersey (STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Zohran Mamdani, New York City mayor, takes questions from listeners and talks about this week's news in the city. 

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Mike Hayes, WNYC/Gothamist reporter covering New Jersey and the author of The Secret Files: Bill De Blasio, The NYPD, and the Broken Promises of Police Reform (Kingston Imperial, 2023) talks about another key issue from Sunday's debate between U.S. Rep. Tom Kean, Jr and his Democratic challenger Rebecca Bennett -- Congress and the U.S. role in the Middle East and with Israel.

Photo: Protesters against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war in Gaza block a street next to the United Nations (U.N.) on September 24, 2026, in New York City (Spencer Platt via Getty Images) 

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David Gelles, reporter on the New York Times climate team who leads The Times’s Climate Forward newsletter and events series, talks about outgoing UN Sec. Gen. António Guterres' efforts to achieve results in combatting climate change.

Photo by Xuthoria, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International via Wikimedia Commons. November 20, 2025

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