CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV Podcast
1) Diane Ravitch: An Education - Pt 1/3
Bob Herbert welcomes Diane Ravitch, education historian, activist and author to the first of three programs, discussing her long career analyzing public education and her relentless push for school re...Show More
2) Remembering Bill Moyers
Bob Herbert and Prof. Eric Alterman discuss their association with Bill Moyers, a great American journalist who died at 91, has left an astonishing legacy on this nation’s politics, government and new...Show More
3) Prof. James F. Booth: Earth & Atmospheric Science - CCNY
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4) Poverty and the Elderly in NYC
In just the past decade, the number of older adults - 65 and older - living in poverty in New York State has increased by 50%. Many face declining health, loneliness, cognitive decline, and at an incr...Show More
5) Jonathan Bowles: Center for an Urban Future
Apprenticeships, known in many industries as on-the-job-training, can offer a distinct path to 21st century technology careers, providing access to some of today’s good jobs and a middle class standar...Show More
6) David C. Baluarte: Law in the Service of Human Needs
David C. Baluarte discusses the need for trained public interest lawyers, noting the government’s violation of the rule of law: people sent to foreign prisons without due process, talk about getting r...Show More
7) Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Nation
Barely into his second term, President Trump’s actions have created chaos and fear for our democracy among government employees, immigrants, educators, businesses, the elderly - all of us - who look t...Show More
8) David Greenberg, "John Lewis: A Life" Part 2 - POLITICS
In POLITICS - Part 2, author David Greenberg, “John Lewis: A Life,” reviews Lewis’s 34 long years of extraordinary service in Congress: his moral authority, principles, leadership, and support of inte...Show More
9) David Greenberg, "John Lewis: A Life" Part 1 - PROTEST
In Part 1, PROTEST of a 2 part conversation, Bob and David Greenberg, author of “John Lewis: A Life,” discuss the high points of Lewis’s extraordinary activism – the sit-ins, the freedom rides, the Ma...Show More
10) Eric Alterman: What Kind of Journalism Supports Democracy?
Historian Eric Alterman loves footnotes and cares a lot about where information comes from. Concerned that bad information is crowding out good information-and that the GOP doesn’t care, he is unwilli...Show More