25 Years in 25 Days: Then and Now

Brian Lehrer, on stage at the Society for Ethical Culture for the show's 25th anniversary celebration.

This segment originally aired live on October 31, 2014. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on December 26, 2014. The unedited audio can be found here. 

This fall, the Brian Lehrer Show is marking 25 years of Brian at WNYC with a year-by-year look at stories that mattered from 1989 to 2014. Find the full schedule and lots more here.

We conclude our 25th anniversary series with last night's live panel discussion on progress with Gail Collins of The New York Times, David Remnick of The New Yorker, and Tavis Smiley of PBS.