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Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Nation Apr 01, 2025

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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 to the United States government for our security, and many, for health and financial support. We fear for our well-being and for our democracy.

David Greenberg, "John Lewis: A Life" Part 2 - POLITICS Feb 18, 2025

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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 interracial cooperation – the idea that we’re all in this together; we have to work together.

David Greenberg, "John Lewis: A Life" Part 1 - PROTEST Feb 18, 2025

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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 March on Washington, Selma, Bloody Sunday, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, and its effect on John Lewis and the civil rights movement.

Eric Alterman: What Kind of Journalism Supports Democracy? Jan 09, 2025

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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 unwilling to simply accept what he's read or heard. Alterman urges students to think critically: to evaluate the quality of the source providing the information.

Philip Lentz: Donald Trump, US President #45 and #47 Dec 12, 2024

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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.

David Dinkins/Eric Adams: Different Mayors/Different Times Dec 02, 2024

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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.

Flooding/Hurricanes/Tornados/Wildfires: Climate Change Dec 02, 2024

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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 Floods may occur yearly; coral reefs are bleaching; lives are uprooted-some are lost.

Eric Alterman: 2024 Presidential Election - Choose One Oct 23, 2024

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Why vote Republican when economic growth under Democratic presidents, is 4.6% and 2.4% under Republicans? Bob and Prof. Alterman view the 2024 Election-perhaps as the most consequential election campaign since WW 2, highlighting the candidates' leadership qualities: sane, compassionate, willing to learn and "something else entirely."

Ronald E. Richter: JCCA / Repair the world / child by child Oct 09, 2024

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Children, teenagers, young adults are struggling with mental health issues - sadness. depression, suicidal thoughts and more. Covid 19 made situations substantially worse. JCCA's Ron Richter tells us about his personal commitment to helping children with mental health issues.

College Life Today - The Humanities Re-Visited Sep 19, 2024

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Bob and guests, education consultant Katina Rogers and CUNY Professor Matt Gold, discuss college life - TODAY - asking, why go to college - for a better job? better pay? the costs, the quality of education and, of course, what to study: Tech, STEM, the Humanities?

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