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Politics Brief
by WNYC Studios
Politics Brief is the go-to source for 2018 election news, selected from the best WNYC has to offer. Daily segments include original reporting on the New York metro region, along with interviews and analysis focused on the national scene from groundbreaking shows like On the Media, The Takeaway and The New Yorker Radio Hour. Produced by WNYC Studios, home of other great podcasts including Radiolab, Snap Judgment, Nancy and Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin.Category: News & Politics
Episodes
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Florida Restores Voting Rights For 1.5 Million Ex-Felons
Devin Coleman has been out of prison for 12 years. Thanks to the passage of Amendment 4 in Florida, he will now be eligible to vote once more. Steve Bousquet of the Tampa Bay Times joins the Takeaway to discuss the implications of the amendment.
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Election Results In New Jersey And Beyond
Nancy Solomon, managing editor of New Jersey Public Radio, talks about election results in New Jersey. Joining her are Kai Wright, editor and host of WNYC’s narrative unit, and Gabriel Debenedett, New York Magazine national political correspondent, to take a look at other races around the country.
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Get Out The Vote
It's Election Day on The Brian Lehrer Show. Scott Bland, editor of Campaign Pro for Politico, and TIME National Correspondent Charlotte Alter discuss how both parties have worked to get out the vote in the run-up to the midterm election. And later, listeners share their stories of voting for...
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Texas' Secret Resistance
A group of progressive Texas women who are organizing in secret, out of fear of retaliation from neighbors, friends, and even family. Now, as WNYC's Amanda Aroncyzk reports, some are ready to speak out.
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Anger, Identity and Polarization
Lilliana Mason is professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity. She joins On The Media's Bob Garfield to discuss how anger and tribal identity have gotten us to the current political moment, and how we might...
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The Biases Around Women's Voices
In the latest episode of The United States of Anxiety, we meet Rena Cook, a voice coach in Oklahoma who’s training progressive, female candidates on how to subvert our inbuilt biases about women’s voices. Plus, we look back on what the 1977 National Women’s Conference did (and didn’t) do for...
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Climate Change And The Midterms
Just four percent of T.V. campaign ads explicitly mention climate change despite warnings from the United Nations and others that predict catastrophic damage from climate change as early as 2040. Millennials are the only generation where a clear majority believes that there is solid evidence of...
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The 2018 Culture War
Charlie Sykes, longtime conservative talk host and MSNBC contributor, Eddie Glaude, chair of Princeton's new department of African-American studies and president-elect of the American Academy of Religion, and Alexis Grenell, co-founder of Pythia Public, a political and public affairs firm, look...
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The Wage Gap Issue
On The Brian Lehrer Show, Dean Baker macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. and Stephen Moore, fellow at the Project for Economic Growth at the Heritage Foundation and author of Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our...
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Who Does The House Of Representatives Represent?
Drew Desilver is a senior writer at Pew Research Center. He joins The Takeaway to discuss what some problems may be with a system that hasn’t changed in nearly 90 years.
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A Pipeline In Pennsylvania
Reporter Eliza Griswold follows political campaigns in Pennsylvania. She joins The New Yorker Radio Hour to talk about the controversial Mariner East 2 Pipeline Project, which has rare bipartisan support... and opposition.
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From The Brian Lehrer Show: Young Voters, Latino Voters
Melissa Mark-Viverito, vice president of strategic engagement for the Latino Victory Fund and former New York City Council speaker, joins The Brian Lehrer Show to survey how Latino voters are feeling about and voting in the midterm elections. Also joining the show is John Della Volpe, director of...
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Breaking Down The Midterms
Clare Malone, senior political writer for FiveThirtyEight, joins On The Media to talk about the figures, myths and exaggerations making their way into the national conversation ahead of the midterms.
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What Is Deep Canvassing?
Traditional canvassing can help 'get out the base' but it has little success winning over voters on the other side. So, as WNYC's Fred Mogul reports, canvassers on Staten Island are trying an experiment.
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30 Issues: The Border, the Caravan and Trump
WNYC's Brian Lehrer talks with Washington Post national security reporter Nick Miroff about how the caravan of asylum seekers traveling from Central America is playing a role in the midterm elections. Plus New York Times reporter Annie Correal shares snapshots from the caravan of migrants making...
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White Supremacy Is Running for Office
The New Yorker Radio Hour takes a look at several candidates on the far right openly espousing white-supremacist and white-nationalist views in this midterms election season. Reporter Andrew Marantz tells host David Remnick that candidates who used to “dog-whistle”—use coded language to appeal to...
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How To Improve Our Election Systems
Danielle Root is the voting rights manager at the Center for American Progress. She joins The Takeaway to discuss what it'd take to make America's voting systems better.
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A Hot Congressional Race In New York
Rachel Silberstein, staff writer at The Times Union, joins The Brian Lehrer Show to talk about the latest debate between incumbent Rep. John Faso and Democratic challenger Antonio Delgado in New York's highly contested District 19 congressional race.
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A Crisis Of Ethics In Washington
Walter Shaub, senior advisor at the watchdog group CREW, and former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics, joins The Brian Lehrer Show to talk about Capitol Hill's swelling crisis of ethics.
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The Long Island Divide
WNYC's Jessica Gould reports on the intense race in Long Island between Democrat Liuba Grechen Shirley and Republican Pete King.
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How Our Elections Work
Joining The Takeaway to break down how voting varies across the country is David Becker, the executive director and founder of the Center for Election Innovation & Research.
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Saudi Arabia's Royal "Reformers"
Last year, when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman became Saudi Arabia's Deputy Prime Minister, the press fawned over his reforms in the arena of women's rights and business. The Western media has devoted less coverage to his regime's human rights violations and destruction in Yemen. Georgetown...
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Andy Borowitz's Take On Today's News
On The Brian Lehrer Show, Andy Borowitz, comedian and creator of The New Yorker's "The Borowitz Report" column, gives his satirical take on the news.
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Trump's Curious Relationship With Saudi Arabia
Trump has been doing business with Saudis for years, even bragging during his presidential campaign about the large amount of money Saudi buyers paid for his apartments. In this Trump, Inc. podcast extra, WNYC’s Charlie Herman talks with The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold and Joe Nocera from...
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The Women Bringing The Resistance To The Suburbs
WNYC's Nancy Solomon reports on three activists groups changing the political landscape of a large swath of New Jersey suburbs, places that have elected Republicans to local and national office for decades.
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The Booming Jobs Market
New Labor Department numbers this week point to a record number of job openings, and a booming labor market like this means it’s a great time for employees to ask for more money in their current role, or to find new, better work. Harry Holzer, a professor of Public Policy at Georgetown and former...
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Dolly Parton's Take On The 19th Amendment
Hear the latest episode of More Perfect from WNYC Studios, featuring a song the legendary Dolly Parton wrote for the show about the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
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Senator Ben Sasse On Political Polarization
Ben Sasse, Republican U.S. Senator from Nebraska and author of Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal, argues that loneliness is the underlying cause of America's extreme polarization and that the solution lies in finding deepening "rootedness." That's on The Brian Lehrer Show.
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Are Our Elections Secure?
Russian intelligence has been probing for weaknesses in our election systems. And there are plenty. Can states secure themselves from attack in time for the midterms? Sue Halpern, who reports on election security, joined The New Yorker Radio Hour to discuss.
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Marc Molinaro, Gubernatorial Candidate
WNYC reporter Fred Mogul on the secrets (and limits) to Andrew Cuomo's long-shot Republican challenger for Governor of New York, Marc Molinaro.
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The Democrats' Plan For Immigration Policy
Are open borders and #AbolishICE actually stances of a potential Democratic House? Rep. Adriano Espaillat discusses his party's plan for immigration policy if they win a majority. This segment is a part of The Brian Lehrer Show's series, 30 Issues in 30 Days.
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Trump's Campaign Promises, Two Years Later
Two years ago, then-candidate Donald Trump ran for president on a series of promises to the American people: creating millions of new jobs, revitalizing manufacturing, renegotiating NAFTA, and of course, building the wall. How has he fared? Hear analysis from Politics with Amy Walter.
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Black Women And The Democratic National Committee
Jehmu Greene, the only black woman candidate in the 2017 race for DNC chair and founding member of VoteRunLead, joins The Takeaway to discuss why she "ghosted" the Democratic Party and some of the steps it could take to repair the relationship between the party and black women.
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The Future Of Affirmative Action
Juan Williams, political analyst for Fox News and the author of What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump's War on Civil Rights, and Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, debate the future of affirmative action under President Trump. This segment is a…
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Sheldon Adelson's Big Influence
On Trump, Inc.: a look at the relationship between President Trump and Sheldon Adelson. Adelson, a casino magnate, is one of the wealthiest people in the world, and the Trump administration has advanced his ideological and financial interests.
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Campaign Workers Form A Union
With the midterm elections just weeks away, campaign workers are in crunch time. But there's been a growing movement over the past few months to protect these workers from exploitation. WNYC reporter Shumita Basu takes a look at a new independent union springing out of this movement called the...
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Rebecca Traister On The Power Of Women's Anger
Landing a year into the #MeToo movement, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger is timely. Written by the feminist journalist Rebecca Traister, the book combines an analysis of the ways in which women’s anger is discouraged, with a historical look at moments when that anger has…
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The Kavanaugh Cloture Vote
On The Brian Lehrer Show, HuffPost Senior politics reporter Jennifer Bendery offers analysis on the Kavanaugh cloture vote.
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Some Immigrants Can Remain In The US
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to end Temporary Protected Status for 300,000 people, providing momentary relief for immigrants from Sudan, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Haiti. WNYC's Arun Venugopal reports.
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#MeToo In Albany
Alexis Grenell, New York Daily News contributor and co-founder of the political affairs firm Pythia Public, joins The Brian Lehrer Show to talk about the impact of #MeToo in New York State with Erica Vladimer, co-founder of Sexual Harassment Working Group.
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Trump's Big Inheritance
Trump, Inc. co-hosts Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz talk about the New York Times investigation that calls into question Pres. Trump's claims that he received little of his wealth from his father.
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Trade Wars: A New Economic Order
Though President Trump has claimed that trade wars are "easy to win," in states like North Dakota, Ohio, and Tennessee, the effects of protectionist tariffs on Chinese-made goods — and China’s sixty billion dollars in retaliatory duties — could give Democrats control of the Senate. On the New...
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The 90s Roots of Political Tribalism
On The Brian Lehrer Show, Steve Kornacki, national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, talks about today's headlines and his new book that looks back to the Clinton era as the start of today's hyper-partisanship, The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism.
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The Future Of Campaign Finance
After the Supreme Court declined to get involved in a lower court case, advocacy groups must disclose donations to political non-profits. But opaque "dark money" practices may wall persist thanks to bureaucratic tangles and cash-flow workarounds. Joining On The Media to discuss is Michelle Ye Hee...
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Trump And Healthcare
On The Brian Lehrer Show, hear from a few listeners about how they've felt first-hand the effects of healthcare policy. Then, Heather Howard, former associate director of the Domestic Policy Council during the Clinton administration, Robert Moffit, senior fellow in The Heritage Foundation's…
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The Most Perfect Album
On season three of WNYC Studios' More Perfect, the team zooms in on the words of the people: the 27 amendments that We The People have made to our Constitution. They're taking on these 27 amendments both in song and in story. Episode One dives into the poetic dream behind the First Amendment.
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The Supreme Court And Partisanship
The Takeaway's Amy Walter spoke with Professor Barbara Perry, Presidential Studies Director at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, about justices and the partisan divide, and Clare Malone, Senior Political Writer at FiveThirtyEight, about what the Kavanaugh hearings mean heading into the...
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An Elite "Boys Club"
The culture of Washington D.C. has come under scrutiny in light of allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. For years, the center of political power in America has been a boys club. Joining The Takeaway's Tanzina Vega to talk about the culture of the capital are Sheryl Gay Stolberg, a long-time...
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The Reproductive Health Act
Anna Kaplan, candidate for New York's 7th Senate District, and Michele Sterlace-Accorsi, Executive Director of Feminists Choosing Life of New York, join The Brian Lehrer Show to debate whether New York should pass the Reproductive Health Act, a measure that would allow for late term abortion in…
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Getting Young People To Vote, One Step At A Time
On National Voter Registration Day, the New York City Campaign Finance Board led efforts to get more people registered to vote in the November midterms by the Oct. 12 deadline. As it turns out, getting young people to register is easy. Getting them to vote is a different story. Hear more, from…
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Politics Brief is the go-to source for 2018 election news, selected from the best WNYC has to offer. Daily segments include original reporting on the New York metro region, along with interviews and analysis focused on the national scene from groundbreaking shows like On the Media, The Takeaway and The New Yorker Radio Hour. Produced by WNYC Studios, home of other great podcasts including Radiolab, Snap Judgment, Nancy and Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin.Category: News & Politics
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