How Trump Is Sabotaging Dems; Keeping Families In NYC; 100 Years Of New Yorker Cartoons; Your Local Hidden Gems

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 20, 2025
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Coming up on today's show:

  • Shane Goldmacher, national political correspondent for The New York Times covering the major developments, trends and forces shaping American politics, shares his reporting on how the Trump administration is attempting to sabotage Democrats' operations, and how it could affect elections and Democrats' ability to gain power in the future.
  • Eli Dvorkin, editorial and policy director at the Center for an Urban Future, talks about their ideas for how NYC can retain young families.
  • As our centennial series continues, Liza Donnelly, writer and cartoonist at The New Yorker and the author of Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Women Cartoonists, 1925-2021 (Prometheus, 2022) and the substack Seeing Things, talks about the evolution of the "New Yorker cartoon" now on display in an exhibit at the Society of Illustrators.
  • Listeners call in to share their favorite hidden gems and secret spots that they frequent around New York and New Jersey.


Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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