The New Yorker: Politics and a Movie; Senator Cory Booker; Zohran Mamdani Joins the Starbucks Picket Line; Are 'Porch Pirates" Stealing Your Packages?
The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 4, 2025
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On today's show:
- David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and the host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, talks about the latest national political news and then is joined by Marshall Curry, documentary filmmaker (including "Street Fight," "If a Tree Falls," and "A Night at the Garden"), to talk about "The New Yorker at 100," premiering Friday on Netflix.
- Cory Booker, U.S. Senator (D, NJ), talks about the health care subsidies fight in Congress and other national news.
- On Monday, mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers outside a store in Brooklyn. Claudia Irizarry Aponte, senior reporter at The City, shares her reporting on the labor dispute between Starbucks and New York City employees, the mayor-elect's involvement in the strike, and Rae Shao, a union barista at Starbucks, shares their point of view on the issues at their workplace.
- As the holiday season kicks into full gear, writer Julie Besonen, freelance writer and contributor to the New York Times, joins us to discuss her article on how package theft made her building band together. Plus, we hear from callers about their own disappearing deliveries.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
