Monday Morning National Legal & Political News; Gov. Hochul's Housing Plan & Long Island; the Orthodox Church & Geopolitics; WNYC in the Neighborhood

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 14, 2023

On today's show: 

  • Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), talks about the latest national legal news.
  • Larry Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, talks about the pushback to, and support for, the governor's housing plan from residents, advocates, developers and elected officials, as budget negotiations continue on in Albany.
  • Aristotle Papanikolaou, Archbishop Demetrios chair in Orthodox theology and culture at Fordham University and co-founding director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center, talks about the role of the Orthodox Church in Russia's geopolitics as the war in Ukraine continues.
  • WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk regularly teams up with the nonprofit, Street Lab, to bring listeners stories from neighborhoods across New York City. George Bodarky, community partnerships and training editor at WNYC, and Leslie Davol, co-founder and executive director of Street Lab, highlight the stories they've collected so far and take your calls on stories from your community.

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