On Demand
The Brian Lehrer Show
-
A "gusher"The First 100 Hours: Oil Company Subsidies
The House resumes its “First 100 Hours” agenda after the Martin Luther King holiday and still to come is a rollback of subsidies to the major oil companies. We debate that bill and continue to follow the drama of the new Democratic Congress and the Bush Administration.
The First 100 Hours: Oil Company Subsidies
Myron Ebell
director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute
and
Dr. Karen Wayland,
Legislative Director, director of energy and global warming policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council
- on the Democrats' new energy package
Accessing Aid
Dr. Josh Ruxin, director of the Columbia Access Project
- on his public health initiative in Rwanda
Millenium Promise
Orphans of Rwanda
Is Iraq like Vietnam?
Elizabeth Holtzman, former Congresswoman and author,
The Impeachment of George W. Bush (Nations Book 2006)
and
Stanley Karnow, award-winning journalist and author,
Vietnam: A History (Viking, 1983)
-compare the Iraq War with the Vietnam War
Heavy Traffic
Taina Bien-Amie, executive director for Equality Now
and
Errol Louis, columnist for the New York Daily News
- discusses the problem of human trafficking here in New York
- About the Brian Lehrer Show »
- Staff Bios »
- Contact Us »
- Tapes and Transcripts »
- Latest Episode »
- Show Archive »
Features & Series
Podcast
Stay up to date.
Subscribe to the Podcast
YOU PRODUCE The Brian Lehrer Show
Be a listener-producer with facts, questions and people you'd like to hear on the air.
More
The Brian Lehrer Show Scrapbook
Visit the scrapbook for daily photos and miscellany from The Brian Lehrer Show.
More
Shop at Amazon!
The Brian Lehrer Show picks
Start your Amazon shopping on WNYC.org and a portion of your total purchase goes to WNYC.
More
Uncommon Indicators
The Brian Lehrer Show
The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.
Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!
The Rocky Road Ahead
The Brian Lehrer Show
Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
The Brian Lehrer Show
Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
The Brian Lehrer Show
John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
The Brian Lehrer Show
Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
- Comments [22]
Squatting, Then and Now
The Brian Lehrer Show
As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
- Comments [44]
Video Picks
The Brian Lehrer Show
Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.
