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The Brian Lehrer Show

Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.

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NYT's 10 Best Books of 2024 Dec 18, 2024

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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 2024.

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Reporters Ask the Mayor: Campaign Finance Board Denies Adams Funds, Police Chase Deaths, and More Dec 18, 2024

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Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week's event, including the Campaign Finance Board's decision to not provide his campaign matching funds, increased numbers of injuries and deaths due to police chases, and more.

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Paul Krugman Looks Back Dec 18, 2024

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Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics, New York Times columnist, distinguished professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and the author of Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), looks back at his time with the New York Times and ahead to the next Trump administration.

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Tributes to Icons Who Passed Away in 2024 Dec 17, 2024

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As 2024 comes to a close, listeners call in with tributes to their favorite musicians, writers, actors and other public figures who passed away in 2024.

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The Latest on the Mystery Drones Dec 17, 2024

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Andrew Tangel, enterprise reporter covering aviation safety and regulation for The Wall Street Journal, breaks down the latest news about the unidentified drones flying over the tri-state area and what the federal response has been so far.

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State Senator Krueger Wants "Polluters to Pay" Dec 17, 2024

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Liz Krueger, New York State Senator (D, WF - 28th, Manhattan's East Side) and chair of the Finance Committee, makes the argument that fossil fuel companies, not taxpayers, should be the ones to pay to clean up the greenhouse gases they released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, plus other ways New York State legislators are battling climate change.

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Are High Profile Victims More Likely to Receive Justice? Dec 17, 2024

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Brittany Kriegstein, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, shares her coverage of the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, as well as the less reported stabbing death of a migrant teenager near Wall St. earlier this month, plus her experience covering shootings across New York City, to dissect how important a victim's profile is to whether or not justice is served.

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How Congress Can Change Health Care Dec 16, 2024

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After the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive caused public outcry against the health care industry, Rachel Cohrs Zhang, chief Washington correspondent for STAT News, examines what Congress is trying to do to fix a system that many Americans think is broken.

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100 Years of 100 Things: The Star-Ledger Dec 16, 2024

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As our centennial series continues, Micah Rasmussen, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University and former press secretary for Governor McGreevey, looks back at a century of the Star-Ledger, once the Newark Star-Ledger, which ends its print edition in February.

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News From Your Holiday Party Dec 16, 2024

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Listeners call in to share any news they learned at holiday parties over the weekend...and which topics in the news were the most discussed.

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