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.

Special: Asylum and Immigration

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

Return to Sender: Ralph Nader's Letters to the White House

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'

Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver

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

Broken Windows in 117 Pieces

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

Smart Guns & Scared Healthy

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

Safety Culture

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

Transparency For Sale

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

Baltimore Uprisings and Revisiting the Kerner Commission

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.

Nepal Earthquake Relief; TPP debate

Forty five years after the first Earth Day, a look at how environmentally conscious decisions and innovations have pervaded throughout society.

Earth Day: Beyond Fringe

#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.

#BringBackOurGirls One Year Later

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

Transportation Dreams

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.

Consulate General of Israel in New York

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

The Rap Trap

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

Under the Lens, Latin America

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

London is Changing; White Privilege; CUNY; Cast 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.

Metadata in the Age of Terror

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.

Yelp For Ex-Offenders

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.

Modern Mobility & Cuba

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.

CUNY TV's Brian Lehrer

CUNY TV's Brian Lehrer

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