The Brian Lehrer Show

Eboo Patel, a speaker, an educator, and the founder and president of Interfaith America and the author of We Need To Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy (Beacon Press, 2022), talks about his New York Times essay, "What I Want My Kids to Learn About American Racism," on how parents should address the topic of racism with their children.

With the PEN World Voices Festival starting, Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the human rights and free expression organization, and Andrey Kurkov, novelist and PEN Ukraine president, talk about the organization's efforts in Ukraine and around the world.→ Andrey Kurkov gives the 2022 Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture on Friday, May 13 at 6:30pm, ET.

With all the big national and international news, hyperlocal stories are sometimes lost in the shuffle. So, listeners call in to share the big, local news from their neighborhoods in New Jersey, on Long Island, Westchester and in Connecticut.

Greg Ip, chief economics commentator at The Wall Street Journal, talks about the latest news on the economy, including the persistent high prices, the stock market sell-off and more as President Biden insists inflation is the administration's highest priority.

Mayor Adams came into office promising to keep crime in check. Harry Siegel, FAQ NYC co-host, Daily News columnist and Daily Beast senior editor, looks at the crime rate, how New Yorkers are feeling and argues Adams' mayoralty will hinge on whether he's able to do something to restore a sense of public safety.

Kristyn Brandi, obstetrician-gynecologist and board chair with Physicians for Reproductive Health, discusses the negative impact that overturning Roe v. Wade may have on miscarriage care.

The majority of the New York City Council members are new, and are part of a class that is the most diverse and progressive in city history. Over the next year Brian Lehrer will get to know all 51 members. This week, Republican Councilmember Vickie Paladino talks about her priorities for District 19 in Northeast Queens, which includes the neighborhoods of Auburndale, Bay Terrace, Bayside, Beechhurst, College Point, Douglaston, Flushing, Little Neck, Malba and Whitestone.   Queens council member @VickieforNYC joined the show as part of the series '51 Council Members in 52 Weeks' & brought a piece of "Hollywood East" history as her show-and-tell item -- an apartment building on Powells Cove Blvd in Beechhurst that was associated with Charlie Chaplin. — The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast (@BrianLehrer) May 10, 2022 Catch up with all the interviews here.

With all the big national and international news, hyperlocal stories are sometimes lost in the shuffle. So, listeners call in to share the big, local news from their neighborhoods.

Eric Holder, former U.S. attorney general under Pres. Obama, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and Sam Koppelman, author and director of surrogate speechwriting on the Biden-Harris presidential campaign, talk about their new book, Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan (One World, 2022), plus the current redistricting picture.

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), digs into the legal arguments in Justice Alito's draft opinion that would overturn Roe v Wade.

On the day after Mother's Day, listeners call in to share the best advice they ever got from their mom (or mother figure), and if they are a mom (or mother figure), share the advice they have given to their children.

U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn and Queens), House Democrats chairman, talks about the Alito draft opinion overturning Roe, the work of the special master in redrawing New York's district maps and the Democrats' outlook for the midterms.

The New York City Rent Guidelines Board backed rent increases that, if enacted, could amount to the largest hikes in nearly a decade. Mihir Zaveri, reporter covering housing on The New York Times Metro desk, reports that these increases fall short of landlords' demands but leave tenants fearful of what's to come.

Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is the lead litigator in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, discusses the status of abortion rights today, and what a Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade would mean.

Curtis Deutsch, professor of Geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, discusses the dire consequences of unchecked, human-driven emissions for ocean life as laid out in a new report he's co-authored, "Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming."