Reshaping the Work-Family Debate
Joan Williams discusses why the United States has the most family-hostile public policy in the developed world, and she shows how that disadvantages men as well as women. In Reshaping the Work-Family...
View ArticleWalter Mondale on His Life in Politics
Walter Mondale shares insights from his five decades in public life, his role in creating the modern vice presidency, and the parallels he sees between the Carter years and the Obama years. In The Good...
View ArticleMark Bittman on Taxing Bad Food to Subsidize the Good
New York Times columnist Mark Bittman talks about taxing unhealthy foods. His article in the Times’ Sunday Review on July 24, “Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables,” looks at why it’s so...
View ArticleBuilding America’s Superhighways
Earl Swift discusses how the U.S. interstate system changed the face of our country. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American...
View ArticleInside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools
Journalist Steven Brill discusses the battle over public school reform. Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools looks at the people and issues involved, from President Obama’s...
View ArticleFormer Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm
Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan served two terms during the financial crisis that caused America’s major car companies to teeter on the brink of bankruptcy. Her plans for education reform,...
View ArticleThe Citizen’s Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill
Daniel Imhoff talks about the Farm Bill, an economic and policy engine that drives the nation’s food and farming system and provides nutritional assistance to tens of millions of Americans. In Food...
View ArticleScientific Policies
Jim Manzi, founder and chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), an applied artificial intelligence software company, contributing editor at National Review and the author of Uncontrolled: The...
View ArticleThe Measure of a Nation
Howard Friedman, statistician and United Nations health economist, compares the United States competes with the thirteen countries around the globe most similar to ours and argues that the country is...
View ArticleDavid Lynch and Transcendental Meditation
David Lynch, founder and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, is an award-winning director, writer, and producer. John...
View ArticleLegal Weed: Who Smokes?
Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, marijuana legalization consultant for Washington state, and co-author of Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs To...
View ArticleRobert Reich's Inequality For All
Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration and professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, is featured in Jacob Kornbluth’s new documentary "Inequality for All" out September 27th....
View Article30 Issues: Creating Jobs with Upward Mobility
It's Jobs Week on the Brian Lehrer Show's election series "30 issues in 30 Days." See the full 30 Issues schedule and archive here.President and Chief Executive Officer of the Community Service Society...
View Article30 Issues: Job Creation and Congress
It's Jobs Week on the Brian Lehrer Show's election series "30 issues in 30 Days." See the full 30 Issues schedule and archive here.David Leonhardt, Washington D.C Bureau Chief for the New York Times...
View ArticleWhat Would You Pay Higher Taxes For?
Nancy Rankin, vice president for policy, research and advocacy at the Community Service Society of New York, discusses her report out about what New Yorkers want from the next mayor.Things listeners...
View ArticleDesigning a More Equal Workplace
If subconscious biases lead employers to hire more homogeneous workforces, there are also conscious, data-driven decisions we can make to ensure more diverse workplaces. Iris Bohnet, behavioral...
View ArticleConnecting Faith and Public Policy; Making Makeup Safe; Men's Aging and...
On today's show:David Wallace-Wells, Features Director at New York Magazine, recounts his frightening experience at Kennedy Airport last week, when reports of an active shooter - though there wasn't...
View ArticleA History of NYC Homelessness and Mayoral Policy
With the number of homeless families entering New York City shelters at an all time high, Thomas Main, professor at The School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College (CUNY) and the...
View ArticleWhy NYC Has Struggled with Homelessness for Decades
New York City shelters more than 50,000 homeless people at an annual cost of more than $1 billion. Professor Thomas J. Main of Baruch College in his new book, Homelessness in New York City:...
View ArticlePersonal Responsibility
Donald Trump and his surrogates say he's a genius for using the tax code to avoid paying taxes. Does the public agree? We examine the complicated history around fairness and taxes in America. Plus, our...
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Column: Why science issues seem to divide us along party lines
One survey of 2,000 voters found when it comes to the value of science, conservatives and independents tend to be on the same page, while liberals are the outliers. Photo by Delphotostock/via AdobeMuch...
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California governor turns to housing, rail after climate win
California Governor Jerry Brown attends the International Forum on Electric Vehicle Pilot Cities and Industrial Development in Beijing, China June 6, 2017. Photo by Thomas Peter/ ReutersSACRAMENTO,...
View ArticleHow Data in Public Policy Can Foster Bias and Inequality
Virginia Eubanks, associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY, a founding member of the Our Data Bodies project, a fellow at New America and the author of Automating...
View ArticleRipped Apart: Families Separated at the Border
President Donald Trump said he was ending family separation at the border this week. But we’ve stayed on the story, investigating the issues that remain: children being drugged at migrant shelters,...
View ArticlePomp & Circumstance: Celebrating Graduations and Other Achievements
On Independence Day, we offer two on-air commencement ceremonies from the Wednesday-nights-in-May series, "Four Graduations" — plus an interview with winners of the 2020 NPR Student Podcast...
View ArticlePolice Still Respond to Mental Health Crisis 911 Calls. Advocates See Another...
Carla Rabinowitz, advocacy coordinator for Community Access, and Ruth Lowenkron, director of the Disability Justice Program at NYLPI, talk about alternatives to police intervention for people...
View Article"Vital City" Aims to Chart an Evidence-Driven Path to Public Safety
As New York City grapples with a rising crime rate, Vital City, a new policy journal, aims to find evidence-based solutions to the most pressing public safety problems. Its founders are Elizabeth...
View ArticleA Plan to Strengthen Democracy in 2024
Andrew Seligsohn, president of Public Agenda, talks about his group's project to ensure participation in voting and restore trust in democracy ahead of the 2024 elections.→ Public Agenda's "Democracy...
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