CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV Podcast
1) 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
2) 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
3) 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
4) 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
5) 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
6) 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
7) 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
8) Philip Lentz: Donald Trump, US President #45 and #47
In January 2025, Donald Trump will be sworn in – again – as president of the United States, “with no guardrails..to protect American democracy.” Disturbed that “..the structure of our democracy could ...Show More
9) David Dinkins/Eric Adams: Different Mayors/Different Times
Bob Herbert outlines David Dinkins achievements - in a time of severe race-baiting - as New York’s first Black mayor. Describing Mayor Eric Adams’ bombastic-a cop “stark style,” Christina Greer outlin...Show More
10) Flooding/Hurricanes/Tornados/Wildfires: Climate Change
Dr. Michael Oppenheimer discusses the dangerous effects of increasing levels of greenhouse gases and global warming on the life of the planet and on the life of all its inhabitants. Hundred Year Flood...Show More