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Tom Brokaw, former anchor of the NBC Nightly News, discusses his new book, The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America; Who We Are, Where We've Been, and Where We Need to Go N... (episode)
Ralph Izzo, the chairman, president and CEO of PSE & G, talks about solar power and other energy issues in New Jersey. Plus: Rob Stein of the Washington Post explains a new recomm... (episode)
Lower Manhattan’s Community Board 1 chairwoman Julie Menin discusses the tension downtown between the Occupy Wall Street protestors in Zucotti Park and the surrounding community. Plus... (episode)
Cell Phones and Classrooms
Frank Rich, New York Magazine columnist, describes what he sees as "the anger of a full-fledged class war" manifesting itself in Zuccotti Park and similar protests around the count... (episode)
New York Times chief Washington correspondent David Sanger describes what he calls the emerging Obama Doctrine. Plus: Israeli novelist and essayist, Amos Oz, discusses his new collect... (episode)
Temple Grandin, animal scientist and subject of the recent HBO biopic, talks about children who are exceptional, both in their disabilities and their intelligence. Plus: A roundup of... (episode)
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof discusses post-Gadhafi Libya and weighs in on the Occupy Wall Street protests and inequality in the United States. Plus: NYC Council Members ... (episode)
Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama, talks about the American Jobs Bill and what this administration says it has done for the middle class. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs on t... (episode)
Oliver Sacks, physician and neurologist, explains the brain and its mysterious malfunctions, all to do with vision.
WNYC's Brian Leher Show and The New York World are collaborating on a project to map and report on New York City's Privately-Owned Public Spaces, aka POPS. We want to figure out how p... (article)
NPR’s Deborah Amos is back from Syria. She’ll discuss her recent reporting trip there. Plus: how public are privately owned public spaces like Zucotti Park? We want you to help us ans... (episode)