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How do our assumptions about people affect our assumptions about their food? And how do their assumptions about our food affect how we feel about ourselves? (episode)
President and general counsel for Gawker, Heather Dietrick, discusses a Florida jury's $140 million judgement against the company for posting an excerpt of a Hulk Hogan's sex tape. (episode)
A former ISIS hostage warns that calling the Brussels attack an act of terror plays into the terrorists' game plan. Plus: an unprecedented crackdown on press freedom in Turkey. (episode)
French journalist Nicolas Henin was held hostage by ISIS for ten months. He says declarations of war against the terrorist group is exactly what it wants.
The US government has only used the word 'genocide' twice in response to an ongoing conflict, the most recent declaration was on March 17. It's a momentous act. But what does it mean?
A government crackdown on free speech has reached new depths in Turkey, with reporters muzzled and newspapers shuttered or seized by the government.
On his visit to Argentina on the 40th anniversary of the military coup, Obama vowed to declassify documents showing U.S. role in abetting Argentina's Dirty War.
The Cuban constitution bans the use of media to promote capitalism. This means Cuban business owners have to get creative when it comes to advertising.
Cuba! Land of music, land of cars, land of cigars and rum! Most of all: land of worn out media clichés and tropes. A style guide for bad Cuba coverage.
The media's attempts to understand (and dismiss) Trump voters. Plus, the rise of the "electoral-industrial complex" and reactions to the 2016 election around the world. (episode)
Outright racists? The disaffected working class? Astute political subversives? The media struggles to explain the Trump insurgency.
Contempt for the poor has always been a fixture of American society.
You've heard that money buys elections. But if most of it is used on ineffective television ads, then what is it really buying?
China has not been known for a robust, independent press. But a crackdown from the government has made it official: state-run news outlets are now mouthpieces for the Communist Party.
This week, in an op-ed published by the state-run Global Times, the Chinese government used Trump’s rise as an object lesson on the perils of democracy.
In 1993, the photojournalist Paul Watson took three photographs of Somali dragging the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. A new play examines the violence. (episode)
A special hour on publishing--from Amazon’s flirtation with brick-and-mortar bookstores to wholesale suppliers shilling books by the foot as decorative objects. (episode)
Stories about the imperiled publishing industry have become so familiar that it was something of a shock when publishers reported marked growth this past year.
Years before adult coloring books were whimsical stress relievers, they were objects of political subversion.
In November 2015, Amazon opened a bookstore in Seattle, potentially the first of many. Could physical bookshops hold the key to the retailer's digital strategy?
Can the industrial strategies that have lifted South Korea's economy bring international accolades to its literature?
Driven by the desire to amass a beautiful library of rare books, a bibliophile becomes a notorious thief.
The Frederick, Maryland warehouse of Wonder Book is where unwanted used books go to find a second life--as decorative objects sold by the foot to fill empty bookshelves.
Kim Barker, author of the memoir that inspired Tina Fey's new film, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, reflects on covering war in Afghanistan. (article)
Political commentators have reliably been wrong this election season. We take a look at why pundits make bad predictions, and why they probably won't stop. (episode)
If political prognostication is usually so wrong, why do we keep listening? And what makes a good forecaster, anyway?
FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver crunched the numbers and found Trump's success was extremely unlikely. He wasn't wrong, and yet here we are. So why is this election so unpredictable?
Pundits often rely on the amount of money candidates have raised to predict whether they'll win. It's not that simple.
What if the will of the electorate could be divined without polling and pundit guesswork? There may be a way.
Yes, this election year has been particularly unpredictable, but that alone doesn't let the media off the hook. After all, they're always wrong! Why? That's a bit more complicated.
Looking back on the impossible election and catastrophic reign of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States. Adapted from the article by Jon Lovett for The Atlantic.
Primary voters in twelve states (and American Samoa) head to the polls, and media expectations are high. The experts at FiveThirtyEight decode how the candidates can meet them. (article)