CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV

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A weekly half-hour program featuring interviews with significant men and women from a variety of fields: officeholders and activists, economists, labor leaders, writers and artists.

  1. 12/30/2025

    An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else

    In Part 2 of their 3-part series, Bob Herbert and Diane Ravitch continue to discuss Diane's remarkable memoir: "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else," changing her mind, her beliefs - sometimes dramatically, considering how she would best live her life.

    27 min

  2. 11/24/2025

    Diane Ravitch: An Education - Pt 1/3

    Bob Herbert welcomes Diane Ravitch, education historian, activist and author to the first of three programs, discussing her long career analyzing public education and her relentless push for school reform. Show two will explore Diane's memoir: "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else," highlighting her personal life and the lives of America's ordinary men, women and children.

    26 min

  3. 10/09/2025

    Remembering Bill Moyers

    Bob Herbert and Prof. Eric Alterman discuss their association with Bill Moyers, a great American journalist who died at 91, has left an astonishing legacy on this nation’s politics, government and news reporting. Bill Moyers' wisdom, influence and unfailing generosity was immense.

    26 min

  4. 09/15/2025

    Prof. James F. Booth: Earth & Atmospheric Science - CCNY

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    26 min

  5. 07/07/2025

    Poverty and the Elderly in NYC

    In just the past decade, the number of older adults - 65 and older - living in poverty in New York State has increased by 50%. Many face declining health, loneliness, cognitive decline, and at an increasing and disturbing rate - the impact of poverty. Adding to these hardships is the Trump administration’s threats to support systems: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid - so vital to an aging population.

    26 min

  6. 06/12/2025

    Jonathan Bowles: Center for an Urban Future

    Apprenticeships, known in many industries as on-the-job-training, can offer a distinct path to 21st century technology careers, providing access to some of today's good jobs and a middle class standard of living to a larger population. Jonathan Bowles describes the tech apprenticeship as a combination of education and hands-on training. There are not too many programs around - but numbers are growing!

    25 min

  7. 06/12/2025

    David C. Baluarte: Law in the Service of Human Needs

    David C. Baluarte discusses the need for trained public interest lawyers, noting the government’s violation of the rule of law: people sent to foreign prisons without due process, talk about getting rid of habeas corpus, a disregard for the Constitution; reminding us that these breach of rights can spread from a vulnerable population – and affect us ALL!

    27 min

  8. 04/01/2025

    Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Nation

    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.

    25 min
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A weekly half-hour program featuring interviews with significant men and women from a variety of fields: officeholders and activists, economists, labor leaders, writers and artists.

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