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Demystifying coal country and breaking down freedom of information. Plus, how podcasts save lives. (Really.) (episode)
The Trump administration is rolling back Obama-era protections. This week: a regulation on whether your internet service provider can sell your browsing history without asking.
The coal industry is just a fraction of the Appalachian economy. So why do stereotypes about "coal country" persist?
The NSA has made it nearly impossible for the public to access its internal reports. Jason Leopold wants to know why.
A look at the businesses -- not journalists -- that use the Freedom of Information Act for their own profit.
The "true crime" genre is undergoing a shift: from proving guilt to proving innocence. A new podcast looks at wrongful convictions.
With this week's executive order to dismantle the Clean Power Plan we look back at the Paris climate talks to see what's at stake for the health of the planet. (episode)
Legal surveillance and the Russia investigation. Plus: decoding North Korea panic, and a $10 million pro-Gorsuch campaign. (episode)
New claims about surveillance at Trump Tower remind Congress that there's widespread, legal collection of Americans' conversations. And it can yield collateral damage.
A group spent millions on ads urging the Senate not to consider Merrick Garland. Now, they've spent millions more in Neil Gorsuch's favor.
Two North Korea experts sift through the saber-rattling and media frenzy to separate the bluster from the truly worrisome.
Rex Tillerson said he "doesn't need" the press to be an effective Secretary of State. He's probably wrong.
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? (episode)
Breaking down Trump's budget, how the White House is cooking the books, and why Wikileaks played the media. (episode)
The current GOP healthcare proposal and Trump administration budget both hit the poor disproportionately. Same as it ever was.
Who's to stop the White House from predicting wildly optimistic economic growth under their policies?
The Congressional Budget Office is in the spotlight over its assessment of the GOP's healthcare proposal. But does the CBO deserve such a prominent role in the passage of legislation?
Wikileaks exaggerated the significance of the CIA documents, and the press followed suit.
Violent protests by students at Middlebury College objecting to a visit by libertarian author Charles Murray spurred a renewed conversation about political correctness on campus. (episode)
How the environment became a political battleground, the optics of Trump's new travel ban, and the myth of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (episode)
Trump's Muslim ban might look different, but in reality it's more of the same.
The Trump administration wants to gut the EPA. But the agency was created by a Republican president in a time of widespread environmental concern. How we got here, and what's at stake.
The scientific field of "extreme weather attribution" offers answers that journalists have long avoided.
The plastic is everywhere.
The press defend libel cases, but they rarely sue. A Colorado newspaper is stepping up to the plate. (episode)
A paper trail of Russian interference, Ukrainian fake news, Trump's financial entanglements, and the history of corruption. (episode)
How the Obama administration rushed to preserve and disseminate information about Russian interference in the election.
Russian state media was awash in fawning Trump coverage in the weeks after the election. Then, suddenly, the narrative changed. What does that tell us?
A look at the Ukrainian TV show StopFake, which for three years has devoted itself to debunking fake news flooding in from Russia.
Modern political corruption cases rely on finding smoking guns and proving "quid pro quo," but this was never the intent of America's founders.
A single genetically-modified mosquito could eradicate malaria, but who should get to decide the fate of ecosystems shared by billions? Also in this podcast, clones! (episode)