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CUNY TV's Brian Lehrer

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Brian Lehrer, of WNYC Radio's Brian Lehrer Show, also hosts an hour-long weekly television show on CUNY-TV. In addition to highlighting new academic research with the power to transform society and policy in a regular segment called, "Public Intellectual," Brian interviews experts on a wide variety of topics including: the digital age and how it’s transforming our world; new social and political trends and current events in New York City and beyond; entrepreneurs of change; grassroots environmental efforts; and innovative inventions and apps.

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Episodes

  1. Special: Asylum and Immigration

    The life of asylum seekers in NYC and the U.S.; inadequate translation services for parents at schools; a study finds cab drivers lack knowledge about Obamacare; and family consequences of sending Chinese Brooklyn kids to China for grade school.

  2. Return to Sender: Ralph Nader's Letters to the White House

    Ralph Nader discusses his unanswered letters to two presidents; robots enter their 'deep learning' phase; two Kickstarter projects take a part-two in a quest to enhance NYC; and research behind a new idea for preventing sexual assault on campus

  3. Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver

    The High Bridge and Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver; Politwoops exposed politicians' deleted tweets but is now deleted; Most people don't want to give away personal data but do anyway; 'out' in the 'outer-boroughs'

  4. Broken Windows in 117 Pieces

    The Burmese Rohingya refugee crisis; broken windows in 117 pieces (vignettes); gigantic Silicon Valley-area study on homelessness has solutions; hard questions finance academics could be asking

  5. Smart Guns & Scared Healthy

    A campaign for safe guns, explained by a reverend and a rabbi; New York's experiment with medical marijuana; hard hitting public health ads are controversial but work; exploring the Greenwich Village folk scene, and music from Amy Regan

  6. Safety Culture

    The consequences of poor "safety culture"; feminism in the Muslim World; a good deal for street vendors; and restoring the original Penn Station

  7. Transparency For Sale

    Corporate data reveals the truth, and it's a business; Greg David on why Bill de Blasio is "lucky" mayor; Partisan voters see politics like sports and accept foul play; and restoring Central Park's lost arches

  8. Baltimore Uprisings and Revisiting the Kerner Commission

    Baltimore unrest and revisiting the Kerner Commission; progressive talk in the political season with Dan Cantor of Working Families Party; farmers turn to big data to meet demand; and the cultural factors of work and happiness

  9. Nepal Earthquake Relief; TPP debate

    Nepalese New Yorkers respond to the earthquake back home; debating the pending "TPP" trade deal; targeted for rezoning, East New York seeks revitalization from within; corporations love the first amendment, in court; birds to watch in Central Park.

  10. Earth Day: Beyond Fringe

    Forty five years after the first Earth Day, a look at how environmentally conscious decisions and innovations have pervaded throughout society.

  11. #BringBackOurGirls One Year Later

    #BringBackOurGirls one year later and Nigeria's president-elect; Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres on legally changing police interactions; Frank Bruni says where you go to college is not everything; and the UniverSoul Circus marks 20 years.

  12. Transportation Dreams

    Transportation Dreams: getting the MTA back on track; a case for high-speed rail; a fix for improving bike crash data; a radical vision for LaGuardia Airport and the whole city; and high-tech, accessible streets

  13. Consulate General of Israel in New York

    Brian Lehrer's extended interview with Ido Aharoni, Consul General of Israel in New York; Greg David on the new budget; and 'park equity' with New Yorkers for Parks' Tupper Thomas.

  14. The Rap Trap

    Thousands of court 'rap sheets' have errors or should be sealed; the science on student loans and stress; Turkish cinema is taking over!; a panoroma of a changing Harlem landscape

  15. Under the Lens, Latin America

    Employee surveillance is a booming business; a Bolivian evolution; why young people don't want to run for office; and an immigrant women film series

  16. London is Changing; White Privilege; CUNY; Cast in India

    Affordability issues vented in London; 'White privilege' taught in high schools; how to help community college students graduate and speed the process; and a film shows how NYC manhole covers are made in India

  17. Metadata in the Age of Terror

    In a special CitizenFour episode, Brian interviews Laura Poitras and Ben Wizner; also, New Yorker writer Mattathias Schwartz on how to catch a terrorist; and Ryan Calo on privacy vs private drones.

  18. Yelp For Ex-Offenders

    An an app that might help ex-offenders get into the work place; an alternative to controversial Roosevelt Ave BID; visions of a car-free 42nd Street; a macro study on micro-loans says outcomes are modest.

  19. Modern Mobility & Cuba

    The accelerating rise of electric cars; a study links quality transit to access to jobs; updating a stale vision of Cuba; and why community gardeners are fighting affordable housing plans.

  20. WNYC & APOLLO PRESENT DREAMS FOR NYC INSPIRED BY MLK

    Brian and Melissa Harris-Perry host a Martin Luther Luther King Day Celebration at the Appollo Theater in Harlem. Congressman Charles Rangel and other guests including scholars and community leaders discuss the civil right movement 50 years ago and its relevance today.

  21. Civil Rights: Old School/New School

    Defining the civil rights movements of today; global inequality shrinks but widens at home; photography brings us back to the historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery; and Times Square gets a hip hop museum.

  22. Christmas in depth; de Blasio's first year

    The Xmas of different cultures; a de Blasio 2014 in review; addressing implicit racial bias; newly unearthed law records from early New York.

  23. Modern Slavery; Suburban Inequality; CrowdMed; Infographics

    Nearly 36 million in slavery; the new and unequal suburbs; crowdsourcing for diagnoses; and the best America infographics of 2014

  24. Bad Apple Theory; Beyond Bars

    Does the NYPD have a few bad apples problem?; How to help prisoners with mental illness and addiction; a controversial ethnic studies program help kids graduate; and posting A-B-C letter grades on hospitals.

  25. Drones, Guns, Race & Superheroins

    The collateral damage of drones; Ferguson: the prelude; more guns more problems (says new research); and the successful webcomic, "Strong Female Protagonist."

  26. Vulnerable Children Worldwide

    It's a particularly tough year for kids, especially in a wartorn Mid-East and Ebola-stricken Africa; gentrification issues are worked out on a Washington Heights stage; de Blasio has a Latino appointee shortage; and the 2015 NYC youth poet laureate

  27. Pan Arab Tech Renaissance; Net Neutrality

    The pan-Arab tech startup movement; the FCC and regulating the net; the risk factor in GMOs; and NYC history through sidewalk paintings

  28. Zero Tax Game

    The small amount of money and people that serves 200,000 veterans; Governor Cuomo's Start-Up New York, does it work and is it fair?; Men having babies; the science of love, hate and compromise; and a time when Blues Travelin' jam bands rocked Tribeca

  29. Brian Lehrer's 25th Anniversary Celebration

    Brian celebrates the 25th year anniversary of the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC at the Society for Ethical Culture. The event includes a news quiz and a panel talk with special guests.

  30. Rise of the Platishers

    Provocative web posts call the integrity of the "platisher" trend into question; going undercover to investigate 'payday' loans; how Oysters are stacking to protect New York from the sea; and a tour through the Brooklyn art scene

  31. e-Pandering to Millennials

    Emojis? Maybe not the best way to get Millennials to the Midterm polls; research confirms Ebola will get worse before it gets better; modernizing medical records may be crucial or just a distraction; and a "Harlem Promenade" may bring affordable housing

  32. Falling Firewall of China

    The secret language of Hong Kong protestors; why government should learn to tweet; the true number of rats in NYC; Greg David on affordable housing; and Archtober (a month celebrating New York's architecture

  33. Dysfunction Deconstructed: NY Criminal Justice

    Why a teen spent 33 months at a Rikers jail (solitary included) without trial; PetitioNYC and de Blasio's City Hall transparency; Women entrepreneurs are getting shortchanged on venture capital; lost and found murals of gentrifying East Harlem

  34. Soldier Debts; Bike Crash; Ashkenazi Genome; NY101

    A ProPublica investigation into military service members getting sued; the science on bike-pedestrian safety; the Ashkenazi Jewish genome; and New York in 101 objects

  35. The Climate Crisis: Which Way Out?

    On the eve of the People's Climate March, Brian moderated a panel discussion with top thinkers in climate and social activism in the United States.

  36. Against a Sea of Trouble

    The polar ice sheets are melting faster than previously expected; upbeat views on science have an ironic downside; he math to avoid futile MetroCard swipes and other gems with iQuantNY; post 5 PointZ, street art still thrives in New York

  37. What's Islam got to do with it?

    Reza Aslan, author of "Zealot" puts "Islamic State" into Islamic context; a virtual Syria through 3D journalism; an archivist brings us the 1946 Brooklyn Digest Magazine; and new research explores the impact of climate change on economic growth.

  38. Climate activism

    Environmentalist Bill McKibben on global climate politics; big institutions are divesting from carbon; a new bi-partisan report on climate economics; New York looks to decentralize grid to up renewables; and China's smoggy political landscape

  39. Zephyr Teachout and digital democracy

    Zephyr Teachout on her campaign to challenge Cuomo in September; new sites to boost democracy online; Syria's crisis of sexual violence against women; the secret to efficiency from a Mumbai delivery service; and totally unreal crime scene photographs

  40. From Snowden to Rangel: Privacy & Democracy

    Edward Snowden, Rebecca Mackinnon and Clay Shirkey speak at the Personal Democracy Forum; the "right to be forgotten" (online); and the race for Charlie Rangel's seat is split across racial lines so we ask the scientists, is that a good thing?

  41. The importance of libraries

    Prison rape legislation stalled; female integration into the military, it's coming but with issues; the importance of libraries (it's not just books); and, haunting photographs of the 'hidden Ellis Island.'

  42. Crains Breakfast Forum with Richard Buery on Pre-K

    Richard Buery, deputy mayor for strategic policy initiatives on universal pre-k and other de Blasio signature goals.

  43. Bike Neutrality

    Are the Federal Communication Commission's new rules on net neutrality fair?; is NYC brewing with radioactive elements?; How can Citibike be improved after this one year ride?; and who are these young homeless youth who traveler around the country?

  44. Shadows on Central Park and 50 years of court art

    As super towers rise in Manhattan, shadows are cast over Central Park; Soccer is the fastest growing sport in the U.S. and it's not why you think, says study; affirmative action backfires on minorities is a theory challenged; 50 years of courtroom art.

  45. Winds of Change

    How the Supreme Court's 'Good Neighbor' ruling effects the city; a few perspectives on why street protests do or do not work; a new report shows college readiness rates are dismal; and a New York Public Library NYC map project needs your help!

  46. Cliff Hanger

    The LG/Palisades issue: should the preserved tree-line be broken?; Hemp: it may be the new oil... and omelet; Spite: it has its own scale and a place in evolutionary theory now: and the updated story with NYC's place in the tech world.

  47. This land is your land, under an oligarchy

    A cautious look at the big data craze; local group, 596 Acres finds the keys to the city's vacant public lots; examining the alleged "oligarchy" situation in America; and, a new study calls the great decline in rape reports into question.

  48. Race at Work, and On the Court

    How investigators are using new tech to predict crimes; Talking (or not talking) race at work; Do teens need more sleep, later school?; and, a visual tour of the history of pre-NBA black basketball teams during the "Black Fives era."

  49. Lots of Children Left Behind

    World Health Organization says 7 million die from air pollution each year; "Manhattanization" according to a preservationist; Testing and classroom triage; and, Queensway (park) vs re-activated railway debate.

  50. PTSD in violent neighborhoods

    Domestic violence: what it is and what to do; PTSD in violent neighborhoods comparable to as with vets; the skills gap problem in unemployment; and, Yellow Peril!, a new book on anti-Asian racism.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Brian Lehrer, of WNYC Radio's Brian Lehrer Show, also hosts an hour-long weekly television show on CUNY-TV. In addition to highlighting new academic research with the power to transform society and policy in a regular segment called, "Public Intellectual," Brian interviews experts on a wide variety of topics including: the digital age and how it’s transforming our world; new social and political trends and current events in New York City and beyond; entrepreneurs of change; grassroots environmental efforts; and innovative inventions and apps.

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