U.S. Escalates Tensions in Venezuela; A New Plan For Affordable Housing at Atlantic Yards; NYT's 10 Best Books of 2025
The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 12, 2025
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Coming up on today's show:
- Tess Bridgeman, co-editor-in-chief of Just Security, former Special Assistant to the President, Associate Counsel to the President and Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council (NSC) during the Obama administration, discusses the latest Trump administration escalation in Venezuela, where the United States seized several additional oil tankers, and analyzes the legality of those moves and the boat strikes against alleged drug cartels.
- After years of stalled plans and unfulfilled promises of affordable housing near the Barclays Center, David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, reports on a new plan for housing at Atlantic Yards.
- Jessica Grose opinion writer at The New York Times reflects on her family's interfaith holiday traditions, and listeners offer their own.
- Gilbert Cruz, editor at The New York Times Book Review, shares the five fiction and five non-fiction books from this year that made it into The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2025.
