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Sandy's Cost to NJ Transit: One Year, $450 Million
Post-Sandy debris (photo by NJ Transit via flickr)New Jersey Transit says it could be next fall before service is restored to pre-Sandy levels. And the cost of its damage is now pegged at $450 million...
View ArticleNJ Transit: We're Being More Transparent About Sandy Recovery
NJ Transit's board meetings will now be videotaped, and the agency is expanding the information on its Sandy recovery website.It's part of an agency attempt to provide more transparency to the riding...
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How New Jersey Transit Failed Sandy's Test
On the weekend before Sandy thundered into New Jersey, transit officials studied a map showing bright green and orange blocks. On the map, the area where most New Jersey Transit trains were being...
View ArticleNJ Transit Finds a Place to Store Trains, Out of Flood Zone
During the next big storm, NJ Transit will store rail cars at yards in Linden and Garwood -- not the Meadowlands or Hoboken.A WNYC/Record investigation had found that NJ Transit ignored multiple...
View ArticleNJ Transit Still Not Answering Why They Stored Trains in Meadowlands During...
At its first public board meeting since word broke last month NJ Transit disregarded its own hurricane plan during Sandy, executives were sticking to their story.A WNYC/Record investigation found that...
View ArticleThe End of the Weinstein Era
Recent investigations by The New Yorker and The New York Times have brought to light allegations of sexual harassment and assault against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Many actresses and...
View ArticleHow Gossip Works
In the week since the New York Times released its report revealing decades of sexual harassment accusations towards Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein, the allegations towards the former studio boss have...
View ArticleLosing Power
The President is once again threatening the press, but it's unclear whether he will be able to follow through. A look at which threats to the First Amendment we should be taking seriously. Also,...
View ArticleConfronting Sexual Harassment At Work: Your Stories
Jill Filipovic, an attorney and feminist and the author of The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness, takes calls from women who are experiencing some sexual harassment at work, and asks whether...
View ArticleDid Cy Vance Get it Right?
Bennett Gershman, professor of law at the Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, former prosecutor with Manhattan D.A.'s office, Special State prosecutor with the New York State...
View ArticleAutumn of the Patriarchy
In "Autumn of the Patriarchy," David Remnick delves into the Weinstein moment and the Trump presidency.
View Article#MeToo in Middle America
The latest sexual harassment revelations have been called a "sea change". But a sea change for whom? As reporters investigate America's upper echelons, journalist Sarah Smarsh argues we're not talking...
View ArticleRebecca Traister on the #MeToo Moment
Since allegations of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and assault of dozens of women first emerged, the floodgates have been opened. Each week brings new perpetrators: countless men revealed to...
View ArticleRonan Farrow and Alexandra Schwartz Talk to David Remnick About the Effects...
In the wake of the avalanche of claims about Harvey Weinstein, more and more powerful men across the nation—in entertainment, newsrooms, tech firms, politics—are being accused of sexual harassment and...
View ArticleTIME Person of the Year: The Silence Breakers
This year's TIME Person of the Year is "The Silence Breakers," the women (and men) who have come forward with their stories of sexual harassment and helped launch a movement. Stephanie Zacharek, TIME...
View ArticleShopping for the Apocalypse, and ICE in Tennessee
Earlier this month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted its largest workplace raid in a decade, in rural Tennessee. After witnessing how it tore families apart, some Trump supporters in the...
View ArticleAmerica After Weinstein
The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the highest prize in journalism, was recently awarded to the reporters who broke the first stories about alleged sexual assaults and harassment by Harvey...
View ArticleICE Comes to a Small Town in Tennessee
This week, a reporter looks at a rural town where the largest immigration raid in a decade has ripped apart a community; Ronan Farrow talks about his reporting on Harvey Weinstein, which just won the...
View ArticleApocalypse Prepping, on a Budget
Inspired by “Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich,” by The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos, Patricia Marx gets herself ready for the apocalypse. The only problem: Marx is a writer, not a Silicon Valley mogul. She...
View ArticleNYFF Week 2, Paying Pro Cheerleaders, Fishko on Playboy
Stephen Nessen and City Councilmember Stephen Levin discuss BQE's failing infrastructure. Dennis Lim and Florence Almozini give us a preview of what's coming up next at the New York Film Festival....
View ArticleWeinstein's Defender, Renting in the Suburbs, Fishko Takes on Hefner
Contributing editor for New York Magazine, Andrew Rice, joins us to discuss his profile of David Boise in a new long-form piece in the October 1st issue titled, “The Bad, Good Lawyer: Was David Boies...
View Article#MeToo and 'She Said'
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, The New York Times correspondents and the co-authors of She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Penguin Press, 2019) talk about...
View Article#AsktheMayor; What the Whistleblower Alleges; #MeToo and 'She Said';...
Coming up on today's show:Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post White House reporter, talks about the latest...
View ArticleWeinstein's Criminal Trial Begins With a Long Jury Selection Process
In the wake of multiple sexual misconduct allegations, Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial takes off in Manhattan today. The former movie mogul is in proceedings expected to last six weeks - two of which...
View ArticleIran's Grief; Congress Will Come To (Dis)Order; The Top Political Risks of...
Coming up on today's show:Azadeh Moaveni, journalist, academic and senior gender analyst at International Crisis Group, talks about the emotional reaction in Iran to the assassination of Qassem...
View ArticleTwo Years Into the Time's Up Movement, Has Hollywood Changed?
January 1st marked the two year anniversary of the creation of TIME’S UP. The organization was launched in response to the sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the rise of the...
View ArticleThe Harvey Weinstein Trial is Moving Quickly
In a downtown Manhattan courthouse, the trial of Harvey Weinstein has been moving quickly. The Hollywood mogul is accused of raping a woman in 2013 and sexually assaulting another in 2006. He has...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: She Said Movie Context; DA Alvin Bragg; E-Bike Batteries
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Context and a Movie: She Said (First) | Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg on Election Results and More (Starts at 28:20) | What to Do About...
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