The Brian Lehrer Show

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and the host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, talks about the national political news of the day, plus the conversations happening soon at The New Yorker festival.
Photo: Jon Stewart talks with David Remnick during The 2025 New Yorker Festival at Webster Hall on October 26, 2025 in New York City. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for The New Yorker via Getty Images)


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Chelsea Cirruzzo, Washington Correspondent for STAT news, talks about how vaccine policy could change, depending on which party gains control of Congress in the midterm elections.
Photo: A woman receives the seasonal influenza vaccine. (NIAID, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic via Wikimedia Commons)


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For this pledge drive, listeners try their hand at a quiz. Today's theme is 2026 news oddities.
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Many critics panned the new Tom Cruise climate movie Digger. Jayson Greene, critic and author of the novel UnWorld and Molly Taft, senior writer for WIRED, covering climate change, energy, and the environment unpack why they think might actually be a great climate movie, despite not being a great movie movie.
Photo: Tom Cruise attends the "Digger" Korea Press Conference on October 01, 2026 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images for Warner Bros. via Getty Images)

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Each day during this pledge drive, we're talking fall food. Today, Carla Lalli, video host and cookbook author, including her latest, Food is a Feeling (Clarkson Potter, 2026) walks us through how to make a perfect loaf bread with different kinds of fall produce.
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