Manoush Zomorodi, host and managing editor of WNYC's Note to Self and the author of Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self (St. Martin's Press, 2017), talks about her upcoming Intelligence Squared U.S. debate, where she argues in favor of the motion that dating apps have killed romance and Melissa Hobley, chief marketing officer at OkCupid, argues against the motion and makes the case that digital match-making tools can promote long-lasting relationships.

Coming up tomorrow at 7: Swipe Left: Dating Apps Have Killed Romance (IQ Squared U.S.) with Manoush, Melissa, plus Helen Fisher and Eric Klinenberg.

New York Times metro investigative reporter Brian Rosenthal and Nicole Gelinas, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal and a New York Post columnist, preview Tuesday's panel discussion exploring the issues raised by Brian Rosenthal's New York Times investigation of why New York City subway construction is the most expensive in the world.

Read: Brian Rosenthal's story: The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth

Event: Brian Rosenthal and Nicole Gelinas will be panelists at an event at the Transit Center, Tuesday, February 6, from 6-8pm. The event is free but RSVP is required. Transit Center is located at One Whitehall Street, 17th Floor.Is It Rigged? Can we rebuild transit in New York while construction costs remain sky-high? 

Nicole Gelinas, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal and a New York Post columnist, explains some of the nuances of infrastructure funding and why the new tax bill is a double-whammy for NYC's projects.

Steven Levitsky, professor of government at Harvard University focused on Latin America and the developing world and Daniel Ziblatt, professor of government at Harvard University focused on Europe from the nineteenth century to the present, discuss their new book How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018), which draws on their studies of other countries to warn Americans of the signs that U.S. democracy is threatened.

New Yorker staff writer Rachel Aviv talks about her story about a teenage girl who was declared brain dead by doctors after a tonsillectomy gone wrong, the family's refusal to take her off life support, and what their story says about the nature of life and death. Read her story in The New Yorker. 

"New York and New Jersey have it written into law that if a family doesn't believe in brain death then they do not have to accept it," says @RachelAviv

Studies do show that regardless of socioeconomic status and insurance level, African Americans are given less quality care. -@RachelAviv

Studies do show that regardless of socioeconomic status and insurance level, African Americans are given less quality care. -@RachelAviv

The failure was in the lack of communication between the doctor and the patient. That was informed by a racial dynamic. -@RachelAviv

Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses the Gateway Tunnel, diversity in the NYPD and FDNY, congestion pricing and a recent CUNY J-School report on health inspections in school cafeterias. 

"We should be doing well for everyone's benefit and the Gateway tunnel is necessary to keep that going," says @NYCMayor

.@nycmayor on @BrianLehrer calls for feds to support Gateway tunnel project btwn NY-NJ as national security/economic #infrastructure keystone, believes will backfire if @POTUS doesn't. Cites Eisenhower as GOP prez committed to infrastructure.

Mayor asked about diversity at the FDNY by @BrianLehrer caller. BdB says it's improving. There's actually an upcoming City Council oversight hearing scheduled on this topic: https://t.co/aOo0OC17en

Matt from the Financial District is asking @BilldeBlasio about this story on @BrianLehrer , which found that healthcare workers have the longest commutes in the city: https://t.co/OrgwkSyzGi

Read the @cunyjschool report on how nearly half of NYC school cafeterias have critical health violations that could lead to food-borne illnesses https://t.co/Jd6G67X8my

In case you missed them, hear three of our favorite segments from the week:

Meet the New Brooklyn District Attorney (First) | Why We Need More Protagonists of Color in Books (Starts 35:08) | After 'Unnecessarily Cruel' ICE Detention (Starts 53:13)

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AP White House correspondent Darlene Superville discusses the potential consequences of releasing the Nunes memo. 

"We actually have to see the memo and read it to determine whether it's a dud or if there's something there," says @dsupervilleap

One of the complaints that the Democrats have made against the release of the memo is the argument that it's one-sided and misleading. -@dsupervilleap

Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA TODAY, breaks down why it's alarming that President Trump wants the Nunes memo released despite opposition from government agencies. 

Patrick Sharkey, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at New York University, scientific director of Crime Lab New York, and the author of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018) talks about how violent crime fell in American cities and what lies ahead. 

Patrick Sharkey will be appearing at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch at 6:30 p.m. on February 7. Get tickets to the free event here.  

You can also hear him talk about his book at the 92nd Street Y at 12:00 p.m. on March 12. More details here.