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In the final installment of his month-long series on the show, MTA head Elliot Sander answers questions about what the stimulus package holds for the local mass transit, and takes you... (episode)
From thinner plastic bags at bodegas to more free cabs (because everyone is riding the bus), the uncommon economic indicators are all around us. Today the Brian Lehrer Show launches i... (episode)
Frances Townsend, former Homeland Security Advisor under President George W. Bush, discusses the future of counterterrorism and gives her advice for the Obama Administration on protec... (episode)
When planets were officially defined, Pluto was left out in the cold. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium, writes about his role in downgrading the... (episode)
The second round of the Troubled Asset Relief Program is in the pipeline, and many questions still abound about where the money is going and who’s watching it. And, Mexican Consul Gen... (episode)
Denis Dutton, author of the new book The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution and founder and editor of Arts & Letters Daily, argues that taste in art is more about nat... (episode)
Mark Bittman writes in his new book Food Matters that eating for a healthy planet also leads to greater personal health. Additionally, MTA chief Elliot Sander returns to talk about t... (episode)
In his inaugural address, Barack Obama acknowledged that he is working "amidst gathering clouds and raging storms." NPR's Juan Williams looks back at inauguration day and what to expe... (episode)
Inauguration Day. Millions have come to DC to celebrate the swearing in of Barack Obama, while at the same time the country suffers from economic and international crises not seen in ... (episode)
The Brian Lehrer Show’s special coverage of the presidential inauguration.
Martin Luther King Day takes on special meaning when it’s also the eve of the inauguration of America’s first African American President. WNYC reporters in Washington and speechwrite... (episode)
What does "postracial" mean? Can a "postracial" President fight for racial equality?