The Brian Lehrer Show

Zachary Roth, managing editor at Democracy Docket, talks about the rules that govern elections: the state of mail-in ballots, laws around voter intimidation, and other issues that are becoming more prominent in election governance across the country.
Photo: A polling station in Des Moines, IA on November 8, 2022. (Phil Roeder [Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic] via Wikimedia Commons)

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Amanda Jack, director of policy with criminal law reform at The Legal Aid Society, talks about the rise in low-level NYPD summonses in the latest Mayor's Management Report and what it says about Mayor Mamdani's promise to move away from broken windows policing.

Photo: Close up of the NYPD logo on a police car. (Tim Drivas Photography via Getty Images)

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Sarah Longwell, political strategist, CEO and Publisher of The Bulwark, host of The Focus Group podcast and the author of How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time (St. Martin’s Press, 2026), talks about what she's learned from focus groups on building an opposition to MAGA Republicans.
Photo: WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 29: President Donald Trump and MAGA merchandise is displayed for sale from a vendor near the White House on May 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

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Anna Sale, creator and host of the podcast Death, Sex & Money and the new video series People Trying, made in partnership with The National Geographic Society, talks about her new series, about how people who work directly with land and water approach climate-related dilemmas, and Shelly Kelly, rancher who runs the Sandhills Task Force in rural Nebraska, discusses her work to manage wildfire risk in a changing landscape in Nebraska.
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U.S. Senator (D NJ), Andy Kim, talks about his work in the Senate and the issues in New Jersey.
Photo: Representative Andy Kim, (D-NJ), speaks during a House Small Business Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, (Erin Scott/Bloomberg)



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