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If a Webinar falls in the Forest...

Sewell Chan, reporter for The New York Times, checks in on the technical errors on yesterdays MTA's Webinar. Then Lee Sander, CEO and Executive Director of the MTA, lets us in on the thinking behind the fare hike (and why that Webinar didn't quite work).

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Ask Not What Your Airport Can Do for You

Alexandra Marks, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, tells us about the new cap on flights to and from JFK airport, and runs down the options for air travel over the holidays.

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Does Intelligence Have a Color?

Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and Eric Turkheimer, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, dig deeper into the idea that there is a correlation between race and IQ.

None of the Above: Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker Article on Race and IQ
Theory of Innate Differences by Eric Turkheimer

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African Americans in the Mormon Church

Corey D.B. Walker, assistant professor of Philosophy and Religion in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University, and and Armand Mauss, visiting scholar at the School of Religion at the Claremont Graduate University and author of All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage, talk about the Mormon experience for African Americans.

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Horsing Around

Tony Avella, New York City Council Member (D) representing the 19th District, on the proposal to ban horse-drawn carriages in New York City. But Steve Mallone, owner of the Clinton Park Stables, thinks that this proposed ban would hurt small business owners, and that the accusations of cruelty are false.

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