Host of @OpenMindTV + Mayors of the World + Breaking Bread 🌭🍺🍦on PBS, Bloomberg, iTunes, etc. + coauthor of @ADocHistory by Penguin
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Mr. Mayor @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani, thanks for spending time with me and FDR. My great-grandad Al of NYC, after whom I’m named, lost everything in the Great Depression. Your commitment to relief, recovery, and reform for NYers inspires. Our episode: thirteen.org/openmind/mayors…
In the premiere of our ongoing "Mayors of the World" 70th @OpenMindTV anniversary special, I visited with Mayor Carlos @Moedas of Lisbon, Portugal. Here is an excerpt. youtu.be/WneYa1_1Gi8?si=LTiB…
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Also want to flag the work of @heffnera, host of @OpenMindTV on PBS, which has been running a terrific series of interviews with municipal leaders around the world, including, recently, Mamdani. thirteen.org/openmind/mayors…
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Federal and state races are dominating the headlines in America ahead of the midterms. Yet in a guest essay, Alexander Heffner argues voters should instead prioritise the values of city halls economist.com/by-invitation/…
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In PBS’s The Open Mind’s Mayors of the World with Alexander Heffner, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani talks everyday affordability, from the price of a bacon, egg, and cheese to the cost of renting an apartment in the city.
🔗 Link in bio
#NewYork #Affordability #TheOpenMind
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tells PBS's @heffnera that he’s looking for a federal partnership like FDR and LaGuardia’s.
Could that be AOC?
cityandstateny.com/politics/…
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In a column for SCOTUSblog, @heffnera shared several things he's learned from being part of a series, @OpenMindTV, that has spent seven decades covering the Supreme Court.
scotusblog.com/2026/09/some-…
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CORREO | Carta a la directora: Michelle Bachelet, la mejor candidata para prevenir los peligros de la IA
Por Alexander Heffner (@heffnera), conductor de @OpenMindTV
theclinic.cl/2026/09/16/cart…
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🗣️ En el marco de una entrevista para la cadena pública estadounidense PBS, la expresidenta Michelle Bachelet analizó el actual escenario político internacional y planteó una profunda autocrítica sobre el retroceso de los consensos democráticos y el avance de discursos autoritarios a nivel global.
📹 Gentileza @OpenMindTV / @heffnera
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REPORTAJE | “Lo importante es organizarse y no ser silente”: El documental sobre Bachelet que preparan en EE.UU. que aborda la huella de la dictadura y su rol en la ONU
theclinic.cl/2026/09/13/la-h…
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'The Open Mind's @heffnera on highlighting mayors for the show's 70th anniversary:
"That, to me, was a person that I think most voters and Americans still regard as accountable to the people. Mayors have to get the job done in ways that presidents and senators just don’t."
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During an appearance on @CNN’s ‘The Story Is’ with @Elex_Michaelson, @heffnera discusses @PBS’s The Open Mind’s Mayors of the World and what he has learned from conversations with local leaders around the globe. (@desbordes)
Highlighting his conversation with @desbordes.
Thanks to @Elex_Michaelson/@CNN/@CNNTheStoryIs for exploring "Mayors of the World" with me, our ongoing @OpenMindTV journey from Santiago @desbordes and Athens @h_doukas to Toronto @MayorOliviaChow and Miami @FrancisSuarez
Read @RollingStone about “Mayors of the World” and seventy years of @OpenMindTV: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/t…
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Coming up LIVE on @CNNTheStoryIs from 12a-2a ET / 9-11pm PT:
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel: @DanielBShapiro; Fmr. US Amb. to Israel
@Substack regulates AI: @chrisbest, Substack founder
@SteveHiltonx; Republican candidate for CA Governor
Political panel: @MichaelDTubbs @heffnera
AI: @chrismattmann
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'The Open Mind' host Alexander Heffner talks about the PBS show's 70th anniversary, famous interview subjects like MLK, whether Zohran Mamdani is the future of the Democratic Party, and more.
Interview: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/t…
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Gallup poll: Pride in America falls to 25-year low. Historians react.
@LeahRigueur @heffnera
#History #usa #america250 #reaction #4thofjuly
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'The Open Mind,' now celebrating its 70th year on the public airwaves, defies all the odds — by keeping its conversation serious, civil and gloriously egg-headed. hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-…
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1957 Interview on The Open Mind Was 'Up There with the Gettysburg Address,' Says Host (Exclusive) people.com/martin-luther-kin…
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🎙️ El alcalde de Santiago, @desbordes , fue el único representante de América Latina en "Mayors of the World", el especial de @OpenMindTV (PBS) conducido por @heffnera
Conversaron sobre democracia, polarización y crimen organizado, recorriendo la central de televigilancia municipal y el histórico Bar Liguria.
🔗 thirteen.org/openmind/mayors…
#Santiago #TheOpenMind #PBS
