CUNY TV's Brian Lehrer
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CUNY TV's Brian Lehrer
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...
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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...
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...
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 g...
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...
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 contro...
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
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...
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 tur...
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 revitaliza...
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.
#BringBackOurGirls One Year Later
#BringBackOurGirls one year later and Nigeria's president-elect; Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres on legally changing police interactions; Frank Bruni...
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...
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 Yor...
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 o...
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
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...
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 terrori...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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
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 kid...
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 Prota...
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 Washing...
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
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...
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 p...
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 stack...
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 medi...
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; a...
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...
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 Yor...
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.
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 s...
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 Brook...
Climate activism
Environmentalist Bill McKibben on global climate politics; big institutions are divesting from carbon; a new bi-partisan report on climate economics;...
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;...
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 Charl...