The Brian Lehrer Show

Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, talks about the ballot initiatives that good-government groups disagree on, plus other information on voting.

Photo: Voters fill out their ballots at a polling station in New York City on Election Day, November 5, 2024. (Photo by LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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Mike Hayes, WNYC/Gothamist New Jersey politics reporter and the author of The Secret Files: Bill De Blasio, The NYPD, and the Broken Promises of Police Reform (Kingston Imperial, 2023), recaps Michael Hill's conversation with New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

Photo: New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate, U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), casts her vote on November 4, 2025 in Montclair, New Jersey. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

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Dahlia Scheindlin, Haaretz senior analyst and columnist, political scientist and the author of The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled (De Gruyter, 2023), talks about the results so far in Israel's election, the first since the October 7, 2023 attacks and the years of war that followed.

Photo: A voter casts a ballot at a polling station in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, during the general elections on October 27, 2026. (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Caroline Haskins, staff writer for the business desk at WIRED, where she covers Silicon Valley, surveillance, and labor, reports on a new Airbnb rule change that bars hosts from requiring certain household chores at checkout, and listeners weigh in.

Photo: Linda Merlo, an airbnb host from the Bronx, speaks at a rally on the steps of New York City Hall. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

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Larry Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, talks about the issues at play in the race between incumbent Democrat Tom Suozzi and his Republican challenger, Mike LiPetri, in New York's 3rd Congressional district, plus Levy and Chris Niedt, professor of applied social research in the department of sociology, criminology, and anthropology at Hofstra University and academic director of the National Center for Suburban Studies, explain what their new poll found on suburban voters' political values and enthusiasm levels.

Photo: Voting signs are seen outside city hall for New York's 3rd Congressional District special election in Glen Cove, N.Y. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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