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Neoconservative ideologues, reporters' experiences covering the war, and reflections from an Iraqi poet. (episode)
The unlearned lessons that led us into Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Two NPR journalists reflect on their days reporting in Iraq in 2003.
The writer Sinan Antoon reflects on how the American media misread Iraq, and talks about mourning the loss of life through his work.
Americans have a tendency to forget the horrors of the past, making each new era seem separate from what's come before — to our own peril.
In a story that originally ran in 2006, Brooke talks with three Iraqis who worked as fixers for American journalists during the war. (episode)
Facebook, free will and the future of tech. (episode)
Experts doubt that Cambridge Analytica was able to influence the 2016 election. But that doesn't mean Facebook didn't boost Trump.
Federal regulators once tried to reign in Facebook. It didn't work.
Facebook is the latest installment in a 200-year history of techno-utopian enterprises that have promised to mathematically streamline our messy lives.
In 2012, Clay Shirky was confident that Facebook would be with us for a long time. This week, we ask if he has changed his mind.
Five years after the Steubenville rape scandal, a new documentary examines the dangers of crowd-sourcing justice. (episode)
The latest from Syria, a mea culpa from National Geographic, and the forgotten, ruthless history of Winston Churchill. (episode)
The siege of eastern Ghouta in Syria has been bloody and relentless and all but absent from the headlines.
How Google is undermining our sense of a shared geographical reality.
When National Geographic decided to do a deep dive on race issues, it started by looking at its own troubling past coverage.
His latest Hollywood treatment left out the famous prime minister's imperialist and classist tendencies.
A tempest in a Tweetbot, from the New York Times' tech columnist Farhad Manjoo. (episode)
Decoding Mueller news, understanding West Virginia and making sense of country music. (episode)
How the special counsel's secrecy frustrates scoop-starved viewers.
What happened when a New York Times columnist got his news only from physical print for two months.
The wildcat strike in West Virginia fits into a long history of organized labor that undermines traditional “Trump country” narratives.
Although country music is now synonymous with the Republican Party, it wasn't always so.
Understanding country music through the lens of class, hillbilly humanism and the anti-bourgeois spirit.
Lois Beckett talks to journalist Vegas Tenold about his years covering the far right. (episode)
An investigation into the media's coverage of white supremacist groups. (episode)
Reporters who have covered far-right groups break down frequent media pitfalls.
In the 1920s a familiar debate raged over how to cover the Ku Klux Klan.
How does the identity of the person covering the far right affect their reporting?
The prevailing narrative, that racist ideas stem from the poor and ignorant, is not just wrong but often backwards.