One Full Year of Pandemic-Disrupted School; Gov. Cuomo's Accusers; The Digital Panopticon; Newborn Parenting in a Pandemic

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 15, 2021

Coming up on today's show: 

  • One year ago, NYC's public schools were shut down. WNYC reporter, Jessica Gould, looks back and reports on how parents and teachers and students carried on and the challenges that remain.
  • Gwynne Hogan, reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about the various sexual misconduct allegations against Governor Cuomo and the investigations into them. Plus Karen Hinton, former press aide to Mayor de Blasio and former colleague of Governor Cuomo at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Ana Liss, former employee in the Cuomo administration, share their experiences working under the governor.
  • The Brian Lehrer Show and The Greene Space have launched a new series called Punishment and Profit. Each week we examine one aspect of the business side of the prison industry, and ask: who stands to gain when people get put away? This week we talk to Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises’s executive director, and Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project,  about the data and information systems that track individuals in the criminal legal system.
  • Sophie Gilbert, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about her experience giving birth during the pandemic, and hears stories from listeners on how isolating it has been to have a baby during COVID.

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.

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