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• Brian Lehrer Weekend: Mamdani's Emerging Opposition and Lander's Congressional Bid; Trump's Effort to Ban State AI Laws; Shop Listener 2025: Under $50

  Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.City Politics: Mamdani's Emerging Opposition; Lander's Congressional Bid (First) | Trump's Effort to Ban State AI Laws (Starts at 40:34) | Shop Listener 2025: Under $50 (Starts at 1:00:24)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

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• U.S. Escalates Tensions in Venezuela

  Tess Bridgeman, co-editor-in-chief of Just Security, former Special Assistant to the President, Associate Counsel to the President and Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council (NSC) during the Obama administration, and William LeoGrande , professor of government at American University and specialist in U.S.-Latin America relations, discuss the latest Trump administration escalation in Venezuela, where the United States seized several additional oil tankers, and analyze the legality of those moves and the boat strikes against alleged drug cartels.

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• A New Plan For Affordable Housing at Atlantic Yards

  After years of stalled plans and unfulfilled promises of affordable housing near the Barclays Center, David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, reports on a new plan for housing at Atlantic Yards. 

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• NYT's 10 Best Books of 2025

  Gilbert Cruz, editor at The New York Times Book Review shares the five fiction and five non-fiction books from this year that made it into The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024. 

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• Reflections on Interfaith Holiday Traditions

  Jessica Grose, opinion writer at The New York Times, reflects on her family's interfaith holiday traditions, and listeners offer their own.

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