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Mary Elizabeth Williams, culture critic for The Takeaway, host of Salon.com’s Table Talk, and the author of Gimme Shelter, gives her perspective on the recent real estate bubble.

As conservative Republicans call President Obama's economic policies the advent of the U.S.S.A., writer Barbara Ehrenreich offers The Brian Lehrer Show a socialist's view of the economic situation.

It's a snow day today for a lot of kids. New York City public schools are closed today, as are many schools in the suburbs. Updated forecasts are calling for as much as 10 inches of snow in the city by the end of ...

New York Times columnist Mark Bittman talks to WNYC's Leonard Lopate about a plan for responsible eating that is good for the consumer and the planet.

You can listen to Lopate and Bittman's complete conversation here.

The FAA released tapes and transcripts of tower communications with US Airways flight 1549 that made an emergency landing in the Hudson on January 15, 2009. Most of the communications with the pilot are contained in the tape and transcript for New York Tracon.

New York Tracon (note: raw audio, ...

Thousands of New Yorkers welcomed the Year of the Ox at the 10th Annual Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade on February 1, 2009.

Aniya Dew, Amina Niass, Mbayang Kasse and Kevin Lassiter, all students at the Democracy Prep Charter School in Harlem,watch the Inauguration in Harlem. Watch their faces as Barack Obama takes the oath of office.

On May 6th, Brian Lehrer will be here live-blogging the returns of the North Carolina and Indiana Primaries from 7PM to 10PM.