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The New York Times' profile of a Nazi last weekend set Twitter on fire (and not in a good way). Bob speaks with Buzzfeed's Charlie Warzel about what the story got wrong. (episode)
Science fiction has always been an outlet for our greatest anxieties. Here's how the genre is exploring the reality of climate change. Plus: new words to describe the indescribable. (episode)
Author Jeff VanderMeer has been called the "weird Thoreau" for his nature-inspired science fiction. But what's sci-fi when the future of the planet is unpredictable?
In a novel by Claire Vaye Watkins, a growing sand dune is threatening the Southwest. What can we learn from it?
How we're currently "living in a science fiction story we're writing together."
The distress caused by environmental change needs its own term, and so do other new phenomena in the Anthropocene.
Brooke learned to meditate, so why can't you? (episode)
Over a month into the #MeToo moment, stories of sexual harassment and abuse continue to surface. This week, we devote an hour to the conversation. (episode)
Amid the flood of sexual harassment allegations against powerful men, what are we reconsidering about our own lives and careers?
When Juanita Broaddrick first accused President Bill Clinton of sexual assault, the media dismissed her. Maybe they shouldn't have.
The #MeToo movement has taken coastal communities by storm, but little attention has been paid to its influence in working-class and middle America.
As the list of men accused of sexual harassment and assault grows, some fear that a backlash is imminent. What to expect and how to do better.
When a cultural figure is revealed to be an abuser, is it possible to separate the art from the artist?
New York magazine writer Rebecca Traister says that every new revelation about sexual harassment confirms what women have always known. (episode)
The Paradise Papers and the industry devoted to keeping wealth hidden; journalism's "billionaire problem"; and how one Syrian refugee found himself in the Wild West in Sweden. (episode)
Remember the Panama Papers? This week, an even bigger trove of documents reveals even more rich people avoiding even more taxes.
The Paradise and Panama Papers have exposed only a sliver of the vast wealth that lives in the shadows. And there's an entire industry devoted to keeping it that way.
One week after voting to unionize, hyperlocal news outlets Gothamist and DNAinfo were suddenly shut down by their owner. A look at journalism's "billionaire problem."
When Disney blacklisted the LA Times, media outlets boycotted Disney in solidarity. Their strategy worked...sort of.
The story of a Syrian who found refuge in a Wild West theme park, and what his journey can teach us about the fantastical story underlying America's rugged self-image.
On the anniversary of the 2016 election, we revisit the fraught next day editorial meeting we recorded and the epiphany that Bob told Brooke about this summer. (episode)
How the media are covering, or ignoring, the Mueller indictments; NPR responds to sexual harassment in its own ranks; and Guantanamo gets unredacted. (episode)
While most newsrooms focus their attention on the Mueller investigation's first indictments, Fox News is focusing on...anything else.
Following the first arrests in Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, the media are rushing to catch up. Marcy Wheeler helps us interpret the details and the silences.
NPR's head of news resigned this week amid sexual harassment allegations from several women. The network's media correspondent talks about helping to tell their stories.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi wrote a bestseller while in a cell in Guantanamo Bay. Since being released last year, he's been working on unredacting it.
After being held at Guantanamo for fourteen years without charge or trial, Mohamedou Ould Slahi is able to share his story in his own voice, without FBI redactions.