On today's show:
- Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many books, including The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Simon & Schuster, 2020), talks about the latest from the military and economic front lines.
- Can you name the most watched TV event of the year? Who gets more viewers, MSNBC or FOX? In this installment of "Life By Numbers," Eric Deggans, TV critic for NPR, quizzes listeners on television ratings.
- Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC's On The Media, helps listeners learn how to untangle stories from Russia's war in Ukraine by using On the Media's breaking news handbook, now updated for this moment.
- Jennifer Senior, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins to wrap up The Brian Lehrer Show pledge drive series on friendships.
- Each day during our membership drive, we feature a brisk 'deep dive' on a different species found in New York City waterways, and the ecological issues that impact them. To wrap up the series, Ann Fraioli, director of education at Billion Oyster Project, shares her knowledge of the sea squirt.
Transcripts are posted to each segment page as soon as they are available.
