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What Guantanamo means to the American public and for jihadists; vigilante groups on both sides of the US-Mexico border; and the GOP front-runner in second or third place. (episode)
Marco Rubio is the perfect Republican front-runner: he has the record, the endorsements, the fawning media support. Only hitch: he's not running in front. At all.
Is the fight between Apple and the FBI about lofty principles of privacy vs. national security, or more about respective self-interests?
President Obama has made another pitch to close the Guantanamo detention facility. Congress balked. But what does the public really understand about the prison?
One of the major arguments for closing Guantanamo prison has been that it is serves as a recruiting tool for terrorists. Fourteen years after it opened, how do jihadis see the prison?
The Oscar-nominated 'Cartel Land' began as a portrait of vigilantes fighting Mexican cartels on the US-Mexican border, but it became a study in the blurred lines of good and evil.
The movie "Spotlight" depicts the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation that uncovered the systemic sexual abuse and widespread cover up in the Catholic church. (article)
Justice Scalia's death has ignited a political battle over his replacement. We revisit our special hour on the mysterious workings of the Supreme Court. (episode)
The death of a justice has launched the Supreme Court back into the spotlight, revealing all that we do and don't know about the institution. A special look into our highest court.
With the expertise of seasoned SCOTUS reporters, we've put together a handy guide for the discerning news consumer to make sense of the court, its decisions, and its coverage.
Does the liberal intellectual press really influence the Supreme Court?
Cultural depictions of the Supreme Court can shed light upon the walled-off world of the justices. But does the court derive power from its inaccessibility?
Supreme Court justices refuse to allow filming in the court during oral arguments and on decision days. We consider the arguments for and against -- and the justices sing a song.
A report linking the uptick in microcephaly cases in Brazil to a pesticide -- not Zika -- goes viral. Turns out, it's scientifically baseless. Ignore it. (article)
Coverage of the Zika virus has dominated global news for weeks, creating lots of panic but leaving many questions unanswered. A look at what we do and don't yet know about Zika. (episode)
Last month, reporter Jonathan Katz was in Haiti when he got the Zika virus. But the mild, flu-like symptoms were nothing like the panicked U.S. coverage of the mysterious illness.
A Brazilian journalist says her country was slow to respond to the potential seriousness of Zika until it had a human face attached to it. But should those images be published at all?
An infectious disease specialist explains what scientists understand and don't understand about Zika, and how eradicating mosquitoes is harder than we might think.
The WHO declared Zika virus and its potential link to birth defects a "global health emergency" to raise international attention. But when does awareness shift to panic?
As our climate changes, so spread the breeding conditions for mosquitoes carrying diseases like Zika, bringing threats to regions that were previously immune.
The Zika virus has launched a debate in Brazil about abortion. An outbreak of Rubella in the US back in the 1960s did the same here.
The victories of Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary are being hailed as a coup for "outsiders." But what does that mean? (article)
Political dirt-digging, the real story of the "Dean Scream," and remembering the life of James Foley. (episode)
Isn't it incredible how political dirt tends to materialize at exactly the worst possible time for a candidate? Actually, not at all. A look into the dark art of opposition research.
A "Dean Scream" is shorthand for a campaign disaster. But did Howard Dean's 2004 shriek even happen the way it's remembered? And did it really doom him? FiveThirtyEight investigates.
In the race to the ballot box, the citizens of New Hampshire have long been first, and proud of it. Brooke traveled north to investigate.
The new documentary Jim: The James Foley Story sets out to reclaim the legacy of a freelance journalist who many last remember on his knees in an orange jumpsuit.
David Lipsky's interviews with the author David Foster Wallace are the basis of the 2015 film "The End Of The Tour." Brooke and Lipsky listen to, and discuss, the original 1996 tapes. (article)