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

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

Jun 17th, 2015 58m 30s

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

Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver

Jun 10th, 2015 57m 42s

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'

Broken Windows in 117 Pieces

Jun 3rd, 2015 56m 20s

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

Smart Guns & Scared Healthy

May 27th, 2015 59m 2s

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

Safety Culture

May 20th, 2015 57m 1s

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

May 13th, 2015 56m 52s

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

Baltimore Uprisings and Revisiting the Kerner Commission

May 6th, 2015 58m 44s

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

Nepal Earthquake Relief; TPP debate

Apr 29th, 2015 59m 17s

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 P

Earth Day: Beyond Fringe

Apr 22nd, 2015 57m 25s

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

Apr 15th, 2015 55m 53s

#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.

Transportation Dreams

Apr 8th, 2015 57m 43s

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

Consulate General of Israel in New York

Apr 1st, 2015 52m 35s

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.

The Rap Trap

Mar 25th, 2015 57m 45s

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

Under the Lens, Latin America

Mar 11th, 2015 57m 37s

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

Mar 4th, 2015 56m 34s

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

Metadata in the Age of Terror

Feb 25th, 2015 59m 24s

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.

Yelp For Ex-Offenders

Feb 18th, 2015 55m 45s

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.

Modern Mobility & Cuba

Feb 11th, 2015 56m 58s

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.

WNYC & APOLLO PRESENT DREAMS FOR NYC INSPIRED BY MLK

Jan 21st, 2015 1h 29m

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

Civil Rights: Old School/New School

Jan 14th, 2015 58m 39s

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.

Christmas in depth; de Blasio's first year

Dec 24th, 2014 58m 2s

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

Dec 17th, 2014 58m 9s

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

Dec 10th, 2014 58m 31s

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.

Drones, Guns, Race & Superheroins

Dec 3rd, 2014 57m 42s

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