1984 Reagan Re-Election Poster
(Library of Congress)
U.S. Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter, will discuss the rising cost of higher education. Plus: trends to keep an eye on in the Obama-Romney race; a new collection of campaign posters illustrates the history of U.S. elections; enthusiasts as the soul of American entrepreneurship; and the tiny museums series continues with the Waterfront Museum.
Is war inevitable? What do you think?
Sam Schwartz explains his plan to equitably price NYC transit and tolls.
Time's Alice Park shares what scientists are learning about sleep and how to get enough.
Hosted by Brian and Brooke Gladstone
Local athletes trying to make it to London
With your calls and advice.
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Group projects: big, small, serious, silly.
Help explore New York's ethnic communities.
Bruce Davidson looks at your pics.
The ups and downs of flying with Jad Mouawad of The New York Times
No guests, just listener calls.
Oh the caller's comment about not thinking much of the candidate (as a decent person, I understood) but she's voting ...
He's right about the Silicon Valley, which is still the innovation and private investment powerhouse, but the overall the economy ...
The news is, any closed community that allows this and guards its members (Orthodox jews, Catholic Bishops, Penn State athletics) ...
The reason that victims have a problem is that the worst sin in Judaism is loshon hora - which is ...
NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson; WNYC's Bob Hennelly previews an important NJ congressional Democratic primary; the bike share landscape; how NYC tech start-ups compete; and a new mini-series on tiny museums.
Edward Conard, former Bain Capital managing director, defends the one percent and makes the case for inequality. Plus: Is the Brooklyn D.A. giving preferential treatment to the Orthodox Jewish community during a sex abuse investigation?; and the latest from the House of Representatives. Then: the idea of the outsourced self; and the Listserve project aims to attract one million people.
The effect Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage may have on the black vote. Then, Facebook’s IPO; Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf; and the 20th anniversary of “attachment parenting”. Plus: controlled experiments for public policy; and novelist John Irving on his new novel.
President Obama endorses gay marriage. We’ll take your calls. Plus: a new weekly series on advice for people in their 20’s with psychologist Meg Jay, the Guantanamo trial of KSM, commissioner of the NYC Office of Media and Entertainment, Katherine Oliver, on the state of the city’s film industry; and whether being 1/32nd Cherokee should count.
It’s a Free Country reporter, Anna Sale, talks about how races around the country seek funding in New York. Plus: the debate continues over fracking upstate with actor Alec Baldwin and environmental attorney Robert Kennedy Jr.; and how finance links inequality to economic instability.
