Brian Lehrer

Host, The Brian Lehrer Show

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The Brian Lehrer Show Live at The Greene Space

Friday, October 14, 2016

With guests Neil deGrasse Tyson, New York Liberty's Swin Cash and Tina Charles, NPR's Peter Sagal, Alexandra Petri of The Washington Post and comedian and writer Ashley Nicole Black.

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Bernie and Hillary Compete for 'New Yorker' Status

Friday, April 01, 2016

The Democratic race is heating up in New York weeks ahead of the state primary, as Clinton and Sanders attempt to show who the true New Yorker is in the polls. 

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Heavily armed officers stand guard in Times Square following the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Encryption Apps and the Paris Attacks

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

In this quick explainer, Manoush Zomorodi breaks down why technology that's easily found in our pockets and our living rooms is perceived by some as a national security threat. 

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Years of Talk in One Conversation

Friday, July 17, 2015

One year after the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, there's been a big push for a national conversation on race and policing. WNYC's Brian Lehrer actually hosted one. 

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WNYC's Resident Yankees Expert on the Ethics of Cheering A-Rod's Comeback

Friday, June 19, 2015

By Joseph Capriglione : News Editor, WNYC News

With Alex Rodriguez reaching yet another milestone, lifelong Yankees fan Brian Lehrer offers up his take on the team's tainted slugger.

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Fear of a Muslim Planet

Friday, May 08, 2015

Who speaks for Islam, and is Islamophobia a uniquely present-day problem? Hear Brian Lehrer’s RadioLoveFest conversation with six people from across the political and religious spectrum.

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Brian's Tribute to David Carr

Friday, February 13, 2015

By Brian Lehrer : Host, The Brian Lehrer Show

By our count, David Carr was a guest on the Brian Lehrer Show fourteen times. We collected four examples that celebrate one of his greatest qualities: an ability to make policy personal.
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Mario Cuomo: A Liberal 'Mugged' by Crime Rates

Friday, January 02, 2015

By WNYC Newsteam

WNYC's Brian Lehrer remembers former New York governor Mario Cuomo, who died Thursday at the age of 82.

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America: A Place of Liberty and Justice for Some?

Thursday, December 04, 2014

The death of Eric Garner and the failure to indict the NYPD officer who used a chokehold to restrain him is a painful reminder of the recent events in Ferguson.

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Video, Chat, and Transcript: President Obama Address on ISIS

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

President Obama addressed the country about how the U.S. would lead a coalition to "degrade, and ultimately destroy" ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Read the transcript, watch the video.
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Speakers have gone from huge boxes to boomboxes to laptops

How To Be Smarter About... Brian Lehrer's Home Audio

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Let's face it: as much as we all know and love about music, everyone has at least some blind spots. In this special edition of our new series, How To Be Smarter About…, Soundcheck hel...

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Legendary jazz and blues singer Nina Simone in concert at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris in 1991.

How To Be Smarter About... The Brian Lehrer Edition; Nina Simone; Wildcat! Wildcat! Plays Live

Thursday, August 14, 2014

In this episode: Soundcheck's How To Be Smarter About... series -- about addressing musical blind spots -- continues with WNYC host Brian Lehrer, who tells us a musical topic he’d like to know more on – and we help to fill in the gaps.

Then: Claudia Roth Pierpont discusses her new essay for the New Yorker which explored Nina Simone’s complicated relationship with the civil rights movement and with her own racial self-identification. Pierpont tells Soundcheck about how these issues influenced both the singer’s public persona and works like her perceptive song “Four Women.”

And: Hear the infectious, expansive synth pop of Wildcat! Wildcat! as the L.A. band performs songs from its debut, No Moon At All, in the Soundcheck studio.

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Brian Lehrer

The Greene Space

Brian Lehrer Live: Your Privacy

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

10:00 AM

Join The Brian Lehrer Show for a live broadcast with several guests, lots of interaction, and various takes on a single topic: your privacy. We'll discuss what you want to share, what you don’t, and how much of your personal information you’re willing to trade for online conveniences.

This live event has been canceled. You can still hear the conversation live on The Brian Lehrer Show on this date at 10AM on WNYC 93.9 FM and AM 820.

This Week in Politics: Heat and Ice

Saturday, January 04, 2014

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After the overheated rhetoric of the mayoral inauguration, temperatures turned frigid--literally--and snow blanketed the region, presenting Bill de Blasio with his first test as mayor...

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Election Night Special Coverage Hosted by Brian Lehrer

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Brian Lehrer hosts a politics special with all the results, speeches, and analysis of what comes next for the region and the country.

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On-Demand Video: WNYC's Brian Lehrer Talks Climate Change and Survival

Friday, October 25, 2013

Watch WNYC host Brian Lehrer's historic conversation in The Greene Space with four of the country's top experts on environmental science and policy: physicist and visionary environmen...

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Brian Lehrer: Why Mike Bloomberg Surprised Me

Thursday, October 10, 2013

WNYC

By Brian Lehrer : Host, The Brian Lehrer Show

Michael Bloomberg won't be remembered as the anti-asthma mayor, as he will the anti-smoking, anti-obesity and anti-murder mayor. But he's done a lot more to fight the disease than I ever imagined he would.

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"Write. Rewrite. Stop." Brian's Advice to Writers

Tuesday, October 08, 2013

By Brian Lehrer : Host, The Brian Lehrer Show

I recently got a chance to speak at the presentation of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, put on by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Here are my remarks, with advice for writers young and old.

I was asked to choose some words of advice to give to young writers. I have three words: write, rewrite and stop.

If you want to make it at something, do it all the time. If you love to write and want to be a writer, write along with your life. Write about the mundane things that happen in your day and you'll wind up finding meaning in them that you didn't know was there until the writing made you start to think. I sometimes tell people I think with my fingers, meaning give me a keyboard, any keyboard, when I want to really think something through. So write along with your life. Then write about things outside your life.

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NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Legacy

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

New York City will soon be electing a new mayor, but the city's current mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has left an indelible mark on the nation’s largest city. After 12 years and three ter...

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Spitzer Looks for Comeback With Run for NYC Comptroller

Monday, July 08, 2013

In New York, a once-disgraced politician is trying to be the next comeback kid. Last night, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announced his candidacy for New York City Comptrolle...

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