CUNY TV's Brian Lehrer

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.

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

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'

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

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

The consequences of poor "safety culture"; feminism in the Muslim World; a good deal for street vendors; and restoring the original Penn Station

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 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

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 Park.

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 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: 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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 and its relevance today.

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.

The Xmas of different cultures; a de Blasio 2014 in review; addressing implicit racial bias; newly unearthed law records from early New York.

Nearly 36 million in slavery; the new and unequal suburbs; crowdsourcing for diagnoses; and the best America infographics of 2014

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.

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

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 Washington Heights stage; de Blasio has a Latino appointee shortage; and the 2015 NYC youth poet laureate

The pan-Arab tech startup movement; the FCC and regulating the net; the risk factor in GMOs; and NYC history through sidewalk paintings

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; the science of love, hate and compromise; and a time when Blues Travelin' jam bands rocked Tribeca

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 panel talk with special guests.

Provocative web posts call the integrity of the "platisher" trend into question; going undercover to investigate 'payday' loans; how Oysters are stacking to protect New York from the sea; and a tour through the Brooklyn art scene

Emojis? Maybe not the best way to get Millennials to the Midterm polls; research confirms Ebola will get worse before it gets better; modernizing medical records may be crucial or just a distraction; and a "Harlem Promenade" may bring affordable housing

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; and Archtober (a month celebrating New York's architecture

Why a teen spent 33 months at a Rikers jail (solitary included) without trial; PetitioNYC and de Blasio's City Hall transparency; Women entrepreneurs are getting shortchanged on venture capital; lost and found murals of gentrifying East Harlem

A ProPublica investigation into military service members getting sued; the science on bike-pedestrian safety; the Ashkenazi Jewish genome; and New York in 101 objects

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.

The polar ice sheets are melting faster than previously expected; upbeat views on science have an ironic downside; he math to avoid futile MetroCard swipes and other gems with iQuantNY; post 5 PointZ, street art still thrives in New York

Reza Aslan, author of "Zealot" puts "Islamic State" into Islamic context; a virtual Syria through 3D journalism; an archivist brings us the 1946 Brooklyn Digest Magazine; and new research explores the impact of climate change on economic growth.

Environmentalist Bill McKibben on global climate politics; big institutions are divesting from carbon; a new bi-partisan report on climate economics; New York looks to decentralize grid to up renewables; and China's smoggy political landscape

Zephyr Teachout on her campaign to challenge Cuomo in September; new sites to boost democracy online; Syria's crisis of sexual violence against women; the secret to efficiency from a Mumbai delivery service; and totally unreal crime scene photographs

Edward Snowden, Rebecca Mackinnon and Clay Shirkey speak at the Personal Democracy Forum; the "right to be forgotten" (online); and the race for Charlie Rangel's seat is split across racial lines so we ask the scientists, is that a good thing?

Prison rape legislation stalled; female integration into the military, it's coming but with issues; the importance of libraries (it's not just books); and, haunting photographs of the 'hidden Ellis Island.'

Richard Buery, deputy mayor for strategic policy initiatives on universal pre-k and other de Blasio signature goals.