Podcast appearances and mentions of Bob Herbert

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 crumble,” Philip Lentz and Bob Herbert outline the challenges, decisions and lost opportunities that despite an appalling campaign, led to a Republican victory.

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 outlines the markedly different times in America's history in which each was elected.

We are live from SEC Media Days in Dallas as Braden Gall and Zach Lyons talk SEC football. Today we hear from Trey Wallace of OutKick, Neal McCready of RebelGrove.com and T-Bob Herbert about LSU. How will predictions change this week and what does having Texas and Oklahoma do for the SEC? Brought to you by: The Kingston Group

Considering a journalists' job: "to find out what's true and to report it," former journalists Bob Herbert and guest, Eric Alterman ask what is the journalists' responsibility to the public, and why have so many journalists performed their jobs so poorly - particularly as it applies to the 2024 Presidential Election.

Braden Gall visits with T Bob Herbert of Off the Bench and SNAPS on Day Three of SEC Media Days in Nashville. Why Georgia won't win the national title? LSU or Alabama in the West and which one is better equipped to handle Georgia? Why Texas A&M might be the breakout team to watch in the SEC. What is Auburn going to be in 2023? Subscribe to the 440 YouTube page.

In Part 2, Bob Herbert and guest, Dave Zirin, author of “Jim Brown: Last Man Standing,” sports editor of The Nation, and podcast host focus on Jim Brown's incredible nine-year career as a fullback with the Cleveland Browns, his long, remarkable career after football and his sometimes troubled life.

Many agree that Jim Brown was one of the greatest players to ever step onto a field. A lacrosse hall of famer, a star in numerous sports, the reality behind this legendary hero is complicated. In this two-part conversation, Bob Herbert and author, sports editor Dave Zirin, explore the extraordinary life and career of Jim Brown.

Reviewing events: January 7, "hang Pence," book burning, mass shootings, white supremacy, Eric Alterman, distinguished professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College, and Bob Herbert comment that we're living in a "new" country, with a radical and sometimes fascist major party. Naming forms of fascism in recent history, Alterman comments that this country is experiencing an ideology of anger, hatred and fear.

Miles Rapoport, co-author with E.J. Dionne of "100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting" discusses compulsory voting in Australia where 91.9% of the electorate voted in 2019 compared with the 60.1% turn out in America's presidential election in 2016. Bob Herbert asks - is compulsory voting possible in the U.S. and would it be good for America?

Award-winning sports chronicler, Kostya Kennedy, joins Bob Herbert to discuss his new book “TRUE: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson." TRUE touches on four transformative years of the baseball great and civil rights trailblazer's life. In part 1 of this two part interview, we learn about Jackie Robinson's time playing for the Montreal Royals, a farm team of the Brooklyn Dodgers, as well as his 1949 season with the Dodgers during which he won the Most Valuable Player award.

T-Bob Herbert joins the show to talk to Paul about to talk about the LSU Tigers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

T-Bob Herbert joins Peter Burns, who fills in for Paul Finebaum, and talk about the coaching change at LSU

Police say a man was killed in a central Las Vegas shooting, cabins reopen one week after fire destroys Mount Charleston Lodge, Bob Herbert, a longtime aide to Harry Reid, died in a car crash and more on 7@7 from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Vandy Super Regional underway + T-Bob Hebert talks smack to Vols fans ahead of UT-LSU

Vandy Super Regional underway + T-Bob Hebert talks smack to Vols fans ahead of UT-LSU

Bob Herbert talks with former Governor of New York, David A. Paterson, about his moving and very funny memoir, “Black, Blind, & In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity."

John Nabors is joined by former LSU OL T-Bob Herbert as they discuss the upcoming Arkansas vs. LSU game this Saturday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Nabors is joined by former LSU OL T-Bob Herbert as they discuss the upcoming Arkansas vs. LSU game this Saturday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at The CUNY Graduate Center, discusses his new book, "The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream,” sharing with Bob Herbert how the supposed near future majority-minority narrative is misleading.

The City University of New York's Chancellor, Felix V. Matos Rodriguez, talks with Bob Herbert about how the nation's largest urban public university system is coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, the affects the pandemic has had on the students and faculty, budget concerns, as well as the lessons CUNY can learn from the racial justice protests as it looks to the future.

Thomas McDonnell, Professor of Law at Pace University, discusses how the Trump administration has taken steps to criminalize the act of seeking asylum in the United States. Professor McDonnell is the co-author of a recent study in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, entitled “Enter at Your Own Risk: Criminalizing Asylum Seekers,” and tells Bob Herbert how these latest policies go against the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention, and put asylum seekers directly in harms way.s

As we approach the 100th anniversary of the women's right to vote, Bob Herbert welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer Brent Staples of The New York Times to discuss the lack of black representation in the narrative of the women's suffrage movement. Mr. Staples talks about some of the important black women in the movement who have gotten little notoriety throughout history.

On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, our team celebrates a milestone – the podcast’s 100th episode – with a look back on some of our most memorable episodes. Take a journey back two years as the team reflects on its very first episode! We also share highlights from our interviews with author and journalist, the late Ray Robinson, Pallavi Gogoi, NPR’s Chief Business Editor, and the four featured speakers in our series: 1968: The Year That Rocked American Politics – E.J. Dionne, Jr. (syndicated columnist at The Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution), Bob Herbert (journalist and writer and producer of the documentary, Against All Odds), Lynn Novick (co-producer and co-director with Ken Burns of the 10-part, 18-hour epic documentary, The Vietnam War), and Jeff Greenfield (author, journalist, and former aide to Robert F. Kennedy). With much appreciation, the Poll Hub team thanks all of its guests who have played a role in making our podcast what it is today! About Poll Hub Poll Hub goes behind the science to explain how polling works, what polls really show, and what the numbers really mean. Poll Hub is produced by The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, home of America’s leading independent college public opinion poll, The Marist Poll. Lee Miringoff (Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion), Barbara Carvalho (Director of The Marist Poll), and Jay DeDapper (Director of Innovation at The Marist Poll) dig deep to give you a look at the inner workings of polls and what they tell us about our world, our country, and ourselves.

Are autonomous vehicles really the wave of the future? Bob Herbert welcomes transportation expert Sam Schwartz to discuss his new book “NO ONE AT THE WHEEL: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future.”

Amy Siskind has written a book called “The List: A Week-By-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year,” and tells Bob Herbert how she hopes this record will help lead us back to normalcy in the future.

Is it possible for NYC's yellow taxis to compete with Uber, Lyft and other app-based transportation services? Matthew Daus of CUNY's Transportation Research Center breaks down the challenge for Bob Herbert.

During the spring semester at Marist College, The Marist Poll and the Poll Hub team welcomed four distinguished guests to campus as part of a special four-part series commemorating fifty years since 1968. 1968: The Year that Rocked American Politics focused on the tumultuous and tragic events of that pivotal year and its lasting impact on today’s political system. Each guest – E.J. Dionne, Jr. (syndicated columnist at The Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution), Bob Herbert (journalist and writer and producer of the documentary, Against All Odds), Lynn Novick (co-producer and co-director with Ken Burns of the 10-part, 18-hour epic documentary, The Vietnam War), and Jeff Greenfield (author, journalist, and former aide to Robert F. Kennedy) -- brought their own unique perspective and expertise to the series. Their individual appearances can be heard in previous podcasts. In this week’s episode of Poll Hub, we share a roundup of our recordings with these four guests and feature previously unreleased audio from each of their appearances. 1968: The Year that Rocked American Politics was presented in conjunction with the class of the same name taught by Dr. Lee M. Miringoff.  

School segregation on an enormous scale still persists, and passions on both sides of the issue remain intense. Bob Herbert talks about this and other education issues with guest Leonie Haimson, founder and executive director of Class Size Matters.

Bob Herbert talks with the president of CUNY's Bronx Community College, Dr. Thomas A. Isekenegbe, and one of the school's standout students, Bright Igbinigun, about what draws students from Africa to the college, and what drives them to succeed.

Poll Hub and The Marist College Poll are pleased to present a special four-part panel series, 1968: The Year That Rocked American Politics. In this second installment of the series, the Poll Hub team welcomed journalist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, Bob Herbert. Herbert, writer and producer of the documentary Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class, discusses 1968 as a pivotal year in the Civil Rights Movement, addresses where the quest for equality stands today, and reflects on his personal experiences during this tumultuous period. The entire event was streamed live on Facebook as will future conversations with Lynn Novick, co-director and co-producer of the film The Vietnam War, and author and political analyst, Jeff Greenfield. You can watch on our Facebook Page and if you follow us there, you’ll be notified when our next session goes live.  

With claims of "fake news" and media bias coming from the White House on a regular basis, good solid journalism is as important now as it has ever been. Bob Herbert reviews the press with veteran reporter and NYU journalism professor Pamela Newkirk.

This spring Dr. Lee Miringoff, Director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, is bringing four distinguished guests to the Marist College campus in Poughkeepsie, New York for public conversations about 1968. We’ll talk about the war, civil rights, political upheaval and other issues that framed 1968 and how it relates to our current political climate. Our first guest was E.J. Dionne who is a syndicated columnist at The Washington Post and a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution. E.J. has been an insightful voice into cultural and political issues over the past several decades and is the author of numerous books including his most recent, “One Nation After Trump” written with Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann. Our discussion took place in the Hancock Center here at Marist in front of an audience that included students, alumni, faculty and staff. This is a portion of the conversation. The entire event was streamed live on Facebook as will future conversations with Bob Herbert, Lynn Novick and Jeff Greenfield. You can watch at our Facebook Page and if you follow us there, you’ll be notified when our next session goes live.

What is being done to take down the half-billion-dollar industry of sex trafficking? Dorchen Leidholdt, Dir. of Battered Women's Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families, and staff attorney Alexi Ashe Meyers, tell Bob Herbert how ordinary people can help.

Bob Herbert discusses the major need for infrastructure funding with Barry LePatner, founder of LePatner & Associates, a construction law firm based in Manhattan, and author of “Too Big to Fall: America's Failing Infrastructure and the Way Forward."

There are substantially more Democratic voters than Republican voters in the United States and yet the GOP controls the White House, both houses of Congress, and most state legislatures and governorships. David Daley tells Bob Herbert how that came to be.

When it comes to daily headlines, the black middle class is nearly invisible. The news tends to focus on dysfunction in poor black neighborhoods, confrontations with police, disappointing achievements in urban schools. There's a lot missing from that narrative. We talk with journalist Bob Herbert, who wrote and produced the documentary “Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class.” He brings decades of reporting and analysis together to explain what African-American families have confronted in pursuing the American Dream.

America's median household income has increased 3.2% over last year, but the median family income for blacks has decrease. Bob Herbert talks about this and other matters with guest Ron Daniels, a Distinguished Lecturer at CUNY's York College.

Ari Berman, Senior Reporter for Mother Jones, and author of Give Us the Ballot, talks with Bob Herbert about the various tactics used to suppress voting in the United States, and the steps certain organizations are taking to make voting more accessible.

Bob Herbert discusses American fascism, past and present, with Henry Scott Wallace, co-chair of the Wallace Global Fund, and grandson of Henry A. Wallace, who served as Vice President of the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Bob Herbert is joined by Kim Phillips-Fein, author of the new book, “FEAR CITY: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics,” which revisits the the city in the 1970s and shows how profoundly it shaped today's New York.

Why do unwarranted police shootings of black males continue to happen? What can be done to stop them? Bob Herbert asks these questions of his guest, Jonathan Abady, a veteran civil rights lawyer who represented the family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

In good times and in bad, homelessness is the problem that always seems to be with us. Why is this problem so persistent? Bob Herbert asks this of his guests Thomas J. Main and Dr. Ralph da Costa Nunez.

Bob Herbert welcomes Chris Whipple, author of “The Gatekeepers,” to discuss the position of the White House Chief of Staff, and share stories of about the chiefs of the modern era and the presidents they served.

Online shopping has come into its own and this is causing enormous disruptions in the traditional retail industry. Bob Herbert breaks down the impact with guest Mark Cohen, the director of Retail Studies at Columbia Business School.

Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV takes a look at the pros and cons of driverless vehicles with guest Jamie Lincoln Kitman, the New York bureau chief for Automobile Magazine.

Will we continue to view presidential elections primarily as entertainment? Or, are the protests signs that we are taking politics more seriously? Bob Herbert talks with guest Christina Greer, an Assoc. Prof. of Political Science at Fordham University.

Bob Herbert reviews the first few months of the Trump presidency, and recent threats to democracy with guest, a longtime democracy advocate, and now a senior fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School, Miles Rapoport.

Bob Herbert's guest, John Feerick, is a professor & former dean at Fordham Law School, who helped draft the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, covering presidential succession in cases of death, illness, mental impairment, impeachment & resignation.

Bob Herbert discusses all things CUNY with the chancellor of the City University of New York, James B. Milliken, on Op-Ed.TV.

Bob Herbert is joined by historian David Oshinsky, a Pulitzer-Prize winner and author of “BELLEVUE: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital.” They discuss the incredible history of America's oldest public hospital.