malcolm: the "new yorker" was still a lucky break.ne of the mistakes we all make, when we look back on our lives, we overestimate our own qualifications and choices and underestimate the role of simple good fortune. emily: have you evolved your conclusions? have you changed? malcolm: if you still believe the same thing you believed 15 years ago, then you are a joke. you are a fossil. ♪ ♪ emily: there are myths about some of the greatest creators and innovators that are so often boiled down into legend. what is the myth of malcolm gladwell, and what is the reality? malcolm: i don't think i have arrived at the level of myth. i am just about as boring and pedestrian in my private life as i appear to be in my public life. emily: "the tipping point" was your first best-selling book, you said you had no idea how big it would become. looking back, do you understand why it did? malcolm: i don't. my books and books of many other people caught a specific wave, i think, over the last 20 years. which is, there was this emerging class of businessp

(cheers and applause) i want to make sure we get questions from regular new yorkers. o show you one from a guy on the street. it's about housing. >> i'm curious what the mayor's going to do for the homeless in new york city. i tell people i'm homeless. they're shocked. they say they don't believe it. there's a stereotype about the homeless. they think all the homeless is dirty, stinking, we're drug addicts or alcoholics. that's not true. some people have fallen on very hard times. >> larry: this guy looks like he could work on wall street. it's shocking. the numbers have risen 10%. why do you think that's happening? >> the greatest nick crisis since the great depression a few years ago. people are still feeling that deeply. the price of housing is still going up. people got caught in that vice and were displaced. >> larry: are you getting frustrated getting people excited about this? i know quoamo cuomo and you don't see eye to eye. when you ask for funds, you must feel like the guy in the subway -- i'm not here to beg! i'm actually the mayor of the largest city! >> th

new yorkers do complain. but new yorkers are very generous of spirit. yorkers appreciate when something special is taking place. >> another problem -- mother nature. >> there actually had to be a rule change in terms of us being able to bid on getting the super bowl. there was a rule that if it was an open, exposed stadium, it had to be in a city where the average mean temperature the day of the game is above 50 degrees. that is clearly not the case in february in the new york and new jersey area. >> they changed that temperature role. >> for this particular game, it went away. >> the stadium has a team of 1000 at the ready to clear snow from the stands with a network of chutes. facility operations vp dave duernberger says they are ready for the snow. >> with the snowmelter on the 300 concourse, and one down here on the field. we have a 600-ton snowmelter we can use in the parking lot. they have a jet engine inside. the heat that is produced from the jet engines is what melts the snow. >> it is a very big operation. >> but tisch says it is a big operati

. ♪ mark: new yorkers like to complain about their long commute.ins us and off the charts. no we don't. startcarlet: let's look first at how much people here work versus the rest of the country. this is the monthly economic brief. the average work week is 42 hours -- 3 50 minute. if you add the layer of how much time it takes to get to and from work, new york total now up to 49 minutes eight minutes. so for new yorkers, six hours 18 minutes right commute into and from work each week. mark: that does not count the medication you are taking because you are so angry. new yorkers spending more than five hours on average. is it really that much to commute? scarlet: it is. i've looked at a couple of work week where it is longer, san francisco and washington, d.c. chicago and los angeles shorter. detroit has the shortest workweek out there. just over 41 hours. once you add in the commute it is a whole different story. new york at the top once again. a dubious first prize but first price nonetheless. 49 hours working or commuting to work. even in l.a., tra

new york city. so buildings to have lives. so by 1930 yorkers are:42nd street with "the daily news" building chrysler, the lincoln building and it is a new new york. with boarding houses and dave r. ray. but this was the problem today it has grown very tall and they don't have the edge dissertation to support the population that will result with the recent skyscraper revolution. but in the 1920's they build to move people the third avenue subway will not be finished in 20 years but they build the sixth avenue subway. they build the bridge two months after george washington bridge then the tunnel was finished. that is the first vehicular tunnel of that lankan the entire world and the nose to holland is? i had no idea. i asked the guy in the toll booth he said there is a bust back there i said tusis that? he was a young engineer right out of harvard who got a job and he had an idea that people knew how to build homes there were driving trains into new york city like at penn station but nobody knew how to clean the carbon dioxide gases that of the

seymour hersh is an investigative reporter for "the new yorker" magazine.rned to my lai 47 years after the my lai massacre took place. this is democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. back in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: “no nos moveran" by joan baez. "we will not be moved. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. with juan gonzalez. juan: we and today's show with an update on a story democracy now! has followed closely -- president obama's expansion of the controversial practice of detaining mothers and their children. starting last summer, thousands of central american women with kids as young as a few months old crossed into the united states seeking asylum. even though many were later found to have a credible fear of violent persecution, they found themselves rounded up and put into detention, with little chance for freedom until they were deported. amy: but last month a federal judge ordered immigration authorities to begin releasing the women and children. he found the obama administration'

say what you want about new yorkers, ( laughter ) in times of crisis we're at our best.s, another story. jordan clapper explanation. >> the winter of 2015 has wreak the havoc all over the northeast, and some new yorkers have seen their homes destroyed by the recent blizzard. staten islander amonyoseven. >> it was not blizzard. >> an ice storm. >> it was not an ice storm. >> frozen hail? >> that's not it either. it was from hurricane sandy. >> what? that was like two years ago. >> exactly, two years ago, we're still in the tent. >> what? we had a concert to help. we had mick jagger there and the boss of there, and then we had another concert and there were commercials, and this guy is still in a tent? so this is where your house used to be. >> correct? >> this used to be your living room? >> yes. >> and he's not alone. there are thousands of people still without homes. >> nobody's home me included. >> it's almost two and a half years already. it should have been rebuilt. >> you know we're from new york. how could this possibly take this long. >> okay, wait, more than $648

carter said since when did you start reading the new yorker? i read it every week! [laughter] how many characters am i going to have on stage and i realized i had a fourth one in her and i need he had someone who could talk to him like that. they have a lively relationship. >> she ended up being a good tart part of the story and the story is carter and begin and sadat and brzezinski and others, it's such a wonderful throw back to a time that seems like a long time ago, but as you note, very correctly, we're still talking about this so much and while the personalities may be different, the issues are many the same. >> the camp david accords were in two parts. one is israel and egypt and that's the peace that's been established and not been violated violated. the second part was a framework for peace between israel and the palestinians and that's not been implemented and every single attempt to bring peace between them since then is simply an attempt to finalize the camp david accords. that part that's never been completed. >> and the area of the world we're talking a

there was a quiz for "the new yorker" called dog or jewish boyfriend listing 35 things and asking readersher jewish boyfriend. he does -- doesn't tip. there is always something new. the director of the anti-defamation league and they will find the stair row types offensive. and a blog wrote all around the world there are people who equate jews and dogs. are you proud to be there? are you, lena? they went on and on. anthony you have never done anything controversial -- >> never. never you a fended. >> it is hard for you to chenet on this story at all. >> if she was going for the joke and some people find it funny, then that's your freedom. she will get criticism obviously , but i don't know it is that kind of humor -- i am not into the ethnic humor. >> you don't like that? >> believe it or not. >> he has every right to do that. >> i thought it was funny. >> i was just upset she didn't give answers at the bought m to. >> seriously who was it? >> i read the whole thing. i want to hate on lena-dunham. and if anyone should offer an apology it is "the new yorker." this is a great idea. one pers

. >> one in five new yorkers lives below the federal poverty line. meanwhile, housing costs continue to soar. median rents have risen by 8.5 percent, but median incomes have dropped by 7 percent. tawana little has lived in new york for her whole life. but for over a year, she and her kids have been forced to live in shelter. >> when it came down to the ending of my lease that was a prime opportunity for the landlord to say 'okay, we don't want this program in here anymore.' >> tawana depended on a state program that helped her pay the rent. when her landord raised the price, she was evicted. >> he just wanted higher rents? >> he wanted higher rents. >> so your rent for that place is now gone up to $2200? >> $2200. yes. >> could you afford that? >> oh absolutely not. >> tawana is looking for an apartment she can afford. it's a search that's taken her far outside the city - an hour and a half bus ride to middletown new york. we met her in middletown. but the broker who'd agreed to show her around cancelled. >> so i'm just really, in a really bad emotion

i was reading in "the new yorker," and you noted that you passed 46 ativan tablets for your stage anxietymany did you end up taking? on other note, and i'm kindnesses of the fact it has been a long day, i want to make sure i can be fully awake. you have written many times in your memoir and some of your novels about the excessive hairiness of some of your protagonists. that is a self-conscious preoccupation of yours. i would say to the record, and maybe afterward we could have a shirtless competition, i am hairier than you. the national zoo would turn up. the national zoo will collect all of us and take us back to where we belong. anyway, getting down to serious business, i would say that with regard to your respective writing styles and sensibilities, and some ways you are extremely dissimilar novelists. and if you're looking for analogs, i will put a chill in the tradition of someone who has been compared to, scott fitzgerald, which is heady company to be in, gary. i would put you in the tradition of saul bellow and early philip roth, not just because of your preoccupation with jewish t

. >> new yorkers are putsing a new spin on the room rental shiite air with and b listing homeless people'sor represent to he show people on the streets live as new york city's homeless population closed out at high posting "open spaces for rent at $10 a night," in the richest neighbors. they also seek to do good push user those a crowd funding site if they want did help the hopeless. >> san diego bakery said a guilty pledger is here to stay because it is so popular they cannot keep it. >> it is making us hungry. these are pop-tart doughnuts a one pound square stuffed with strawberry jam and topped with sprinkles. it was supposed to be limited creation but it was feature on tv show and now sales show no sign stopping. bakers are working to make amore -- smore flavored doughnut. >> if it is going to be bad it might as well be real bad. >> no calories there right? >> no guilt at all. it is busy. southbound 680 beyond the north main and to the 24 junction you are looking at a company on the road with brake lights through san rafael and getting busy but moving nicely beyond the civic center and

and a set of terms to demonstrate you know what, you can believe in god and you could read "the new yorker" you can write for the new times come all these things can have a synthesis. what we have now? a great columnist for the times able to do this but where is this institutional authority come from? your first question about people today. it comes from "the new york times." it doesn't come from any religious confession. in other words we would be hard-pressed i think to find a religious leader whose institutional authority is religious commanding a national voice the way someone like richard john neuhaus or no coffin or the reverend martin luther king, always reminded us he's a baptist preacher right? there's no what i think today who can do that. rick warren can get on tv and wonderful things and really organize those who are interested in the brick warren approach to evangelical christianity but he's not speaking to anybody on that john that confession spent talk about neuhaus as a writer. you describe in a very interestingly how he began as a norman mailer imitated, very macho a lot o

secondarily, i'm a new yorker and we play ball in the streets often times. all of these people watching saying car to let us know a car was coming in to get out the street. there was a sports car coming behind me and i want to hurry and get out of his way unless we get hit. but i am dennis proctor door, the bishop of the ame zion on church. had to put zion in there so you understand we are known as the freedom church. the church of harriet tubman. we have just recently partnered with the national park service in auburn, new york, to the if i the legacy she has left to us. also the church of sojourner truth and frederick douglass, joseph charles rice. but importantly the church of corunna scott king, down in marion, alabama. the lace where martin luther king the third's grandfather was the preacher steward and the chairman of the trustee board at the same time. he was a powerful somebody. i stand here today -- i talked to my cousin earlier and i was reminded that my aunt margaret my mother's sister served as a domestic for u.s. senator john sparkman. a senato

. >> rose: but new yorkers know. new yorkers know.i've acted there in 2006, it's an extraordinary theater. we celebrated -- last night we had a party celebrating the 20th anniversary of the theater and i think the rasheeda speaking is really emblematic of the stuff they do. it's not safe it's not politically correct it's shocking, it has you on the edge of your seat. you get out of there and you want to discuss it because one of the beautiful things about the play and the production is it's not like this is a good person, this is a bad person, you know. you keep shifting -- whatever color you are, you keep shifting, oh well, i'm on her side, well i'm on her side, well, i'm on his side well, now i'm on her side. was that right? was that justified well? that person wasn't speaking telling the truth right then do i think it's justified. would i have done that? well, i don't know if i would have dope that in that situation but i guess i see why that person did. >> you were on broadway when you were 14? >> i was. >> rose: how did you get t

i think new yorkers can handle the situation.o are like forget about it is what they say here. in terms of the local area airport, there's already for inbound flights almost a three-hour delay which seems almost incredible considering there's hardly any snow on the ground but i think it is going to get worse later on. if you are flying anywhere check with your carriers and find out what's going on and 24.4 inches so far in the new york state area received that snow over this season. it's been quite horrendous but not as bad as boston. 3 to 4 inches maybe 5 tonight and that means it's the weekend. people heading out trying to go upstate to get away from the all or go further into it i don't know. it's worth considering it is the first day of spring today. it doesn't look like it. if you look at some of the shots we took earlier in maryland there's a lot of snow there. people really are very sad and upset about this beginning of spring situation. just a little throw back for you, in 1990 the temperature on this day first day of spr

how america confronted the september 12th era. " then a piece he did for the new yorker led to a become called "class warfare. inside the fight to fix america's schools" that was critical of teacher unions. steve has continued not just to write but to create organizations that promote great journalism. he continues himself to teach at yale. and in 2009, he and other investors set up journalism online to develop an online pay plat form for newspapers and magazines. his latest book grew out of a revealing 24,000 word article on the exorbitant cost of medical care that he did for "time" magazine, an article for the first time in "time" history took if the entire feature section of the magazine. the piece won the national magazine award for public interest. in his new book, "america's bitter pill" steve explores how the system evolved and what remains to be done to improve health coverage and especially contain costs. while the book has much to offer for those interested in how we got to where we are, it's also very consumer friendly and useful to people trying to understand their own healt

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a new yorker from the millionaire family. tied to three investigations in three states.ncluding the disappearance of his wife and killing and dismemberment of an elderly neighbor. listen to the director. >> bob durst has been accused of many crimes over many years. that's what makes him the most unusual of all suspects. this is not a one-time event that people are associating with. they are saying this is a guy for whom murder is an option. i found him very engaging. i would say charming. he's very funny. yet you cannot be unaffected by the feeling of shaking bob's hand and recognizing while that's happening that this is a hand that he used to dismember a person. >> reporter: new evidence he emerges in the document. they compare it to the letter sent allegedly by durst. compelling evidence that we will hear more about. another tip from the law enforcement source who told cnn the reason the fbi moved in when it did is because they believed durst was about to flee the country. they tracked him to a new orleans hotel where he was checked in under a false name. john. >> wow.

. >> the new yorkers. >> yeah, those pesky new yorkers. the police in los angeles had focused their investigation on a business associate of hers. they didn't want to hear about anything else. >> it wasn't until two or three years later when bob was sitting in jail in galveston they asked him for a handwriting sample they looked at the ballistics. >> when he was arrested he had a nine-millimeter pistol, susan berman was killed with a nine-millimeter. it turns out both those things came back as -- >> negative. >> not negative. inconclusive. >> it seemed like just like every other case it seemed like once again bob it was inconclusive. we don't know what really happened. >> lisa you had something to say about durst and susan berman. do you know? >> we actually kind of met. they were trying to keep the press out to protect bobby who didn't both e showing up to the moem memorial or the funeral. as far as i know he has not been to her grave. i thought that was amazing when there was a bunch of people who were supporting them and saying you were

new yorker and journalists for the buzz feed found some photos on his smartphone that he hadn't takenself. after a little investigation, he realized his old iphone, which had been stolen a year prior had been resold in china, but not disconnected from his private icloud account. he started getting all of his photos uploaded by the new owner. the story has drawn much attention from weber users in both countries. many offered their services in helping to track down the chinese man who's the new owner of the iphone. tens of thousands posted messages trying to identify the man who had affectionately earned the nickname brother orange, due to the countless selfies posted in front of fruit trees. in just a few days, they were able to identify where the photos were taken, and that the press -- the person was in leaking joan. when he realized the -- the person was in li hing jun. when he realized the popularity of the story and the american person he invited him to visit. he then went off to meet his new friends family. the beginning of a very special china u.s. bromance. web users in venezue

a new yorker journalist found some photos on his smartphone he had not taken himself.d his old iphone which had been stolen, had been resold in china but had not been disconnected from his icloud account. he started getting all of the photos uploaded by the new owner. many offered their services in helping to track down the unknown chinese man. tens of thousands of chinese residents took to the blogging site trying to identify the man. in just a few days, web users were able to identify where the photos were taken and then the person and them. when he realized the level of global attention and the interest, he asked the american journalist to visit him in china. he accepted the invitation last week. he was greeted by dozens of locals testifying to his new famed -- newfound internet fame in china. a very happy ending to this story. abuses in venezuela have been posted. urging barack obama to cancel an executive order sanctioning the venezuelan government. the online campaign started by the venezuelan president, which demands the u.s. to appeal -- repeal the order. briti

they are forming vigilance committees with white new yorkers as well, of course. but free black people have a prominent role to play in the underground railroad and what happens to people who are fugitives when they arrive in new york. why have we not -- >> guest: oh absolutely. >> host: -- heard very much about that before? >> guest: yeah, that is absolutely right, and i do try to emphasize that in my book. these so-called vigilance committees -- philadelphia, new york boston, etc. syracuse -- which were what they called themselves these groups trying to help fugitive slaves, were almost entirely black. except for the one in boston for a while had more whites. the one in new york city, the first one was created by david ruggles, a black abolitionist. but there were white abolitionists involved. these were interracial organizations, and much of the money came from whites. most free black people were rather poor in this period. they had limited economic opportunities. money was raised among them but in new york when they needed money, they went to louis tapppan, a w

. >> turns out winter weather is causing new yorkers to seek help for what some may call the winter blues. writer says residents are so fed up with all of this cold, that they're headed to their therapist. here's someone who might need therapy. from all of the snow and freezing rain, that we have been getting. >> walking so i can get to the neighbor over's grass. just like 2008. oh get my purse. >> goes back to get the purse! oh sue serio about 145 this morning. a sheet of ice. got with two neighbors' driver way, no footing at all so we just slid on your butts. >> back up for a minute. take me through this serio household. so you get up around one time? >> one-er? >> normally get up 13 but i got up earlier because my husband woke me up and said it is terrible out there. we can't get out of the neighborhood. >> well, that's where i was going. so billy was already up. you didn't have to wake him up? >> was trying to walk the dog but neither one every them could really stand up. >> you live on hill, an incline? >> a hill, and a cul-de-sac, so not one of the traveled roads, and just that time

i've been published in "the new yorker." shouts and murmurs. i did a piece during the shutdown in the fiscal cliff debate so writing has always been and i'm serious about this -- in any tough job forget being a member of congress. any tough job, your job brad's work in the staff you have to have a release. some people have yoga and some people go to the gym and some people will watch an old black-and-white movie or the mets. my release was always just writing and it was always very therapeutic and a salvation actually. >> i think so long as you continue to rely on congress. >> i have got a lot to work with. >> thank you all very much. thank you so much and let's thank brad again and the staff at politics and prose. thank you. [applause] >> hooks are [applause] thank you, miami-dade college. i am proud to be here. i said this a week ago. i don't know of any other institution in america the title of the book is american dreams. nothing to do with how much money you make. not about getting rich although that may be your dream. achieving happiness

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