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wnyc.org — Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on. The ex-congressman whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago said in a YouTube video announcement late Tuesday that he's in the New York City mayoral race. He'd said last month he was considering it.

wnyc.org — Tim Walker, co-founder of Lifeboat, a new organization that explores the "art and science of friendship," stops by to discuss the findings of their recent "State of Friendship Report."

wnyc.org — Two of the world's biggest sports brands are teaming up to bring a new Major League Soccer team to New York. The New York Yankees and the Manchester City Football Club will both own the team, which will be called the New York City Football Club. It expects to begin competing in 2015.

wnyc.org — There's an article in today's New York Times about anger over bear bile farming in China and the growing animal rights movement in that country. Bear bile is an ingredient in some Chinese medicine, and the methods for collecting it from bears held in captive is seen by many as animal cruelty.

wnyc.org — The town of Highlands is small, just over a square mile. Even though it’s called Highlands, much of the borough is lowlands, sitting at or below sea level. During Sandy, the eastern part of the bayside town filled up like a bathtub, taking on about ten feet of water.

wnyc.org — George Packer discusses the social, political and economic upheaval the United States has experienced over the past generation. And Alex Gibney talks about his documentary “We Steal Secrets: the story of Wikileaks.”

wnyc.org — New York Times obituaries editor, Bill McDonald, discusses one person's life featured on today's obit page. Today's person: Bernard Waber, the children's-book author and illustrator. From the Obituary of Bernard Waber Mr. Waber introduced Lyle to readers in 1962 in "The House on East 88th Street," in which Mr. and Mrs.

wnyc.org — On the sixth floor of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs this week, despite not enough coffee and too many pastries, election experts from across the country were buzzing about issues like on-line registration, voter education, and ways to move elections forward.

wnyc.org — Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney talks about his new film “We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks.” He details the creation of Julian Assange’s controversial website Wikileaks, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history. “We Steal Secrets: the story of Wikileaks” opens May 24 at Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center at Lincoln Center and the Angelika Film Center.

wnyc.org — George Packer discusses the Seismic shifts in the United States that have created what he calls a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift.

wnyc.org — The Brian Lehrer Show and Clear Health Costs partnered to bring transparency to health costs by asking you to report on the price of your last routine mammogram. Jeanne Pinder, founder and CEO of Clear Health Costs, discusses the data we've collected.

wnyc.org — All the David Sedaris Interviews You Can Possibly Handle David Sedaris has been a guest on the Leonard Lopate Show many, many times. Here's all the Sedaris you can possibly handle (with a few bonus interviews with David's sister, Amy.) David Sedaris talked to Leonard about Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules in 2005.

wnyc.org — Introduction When I announced I would not run for reelection to the Senate in February 2012, many people asked me the same question: Was I relieved? The implication was that I was weary of the increasing bickering of recent Congresses and that I was worn down by it.