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How the summary of the Mueller's findings has been spun; historical amnesia, from the frontier to Iraq to Trump. (episode)
Why the framing of the special counsel's report led to so much misunderstanding.
Americans have a tendency to forget the horrors of the past, making each new era seem separate from what's come before.
We're exploring the myths of American Exceptionalism. This week, historian Greg Grandin digs into America's founding narrative: endless expansion.
By settling an Oklahoma lawsuit for $270 million, OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma also avoided a televised trial that would've brought more scrutiny to its role in the opioid crisis. (episode)
Two opposing views on how to cover white supremacy; hate group archivists debate how to understand evil without spreading it; and more. (episode)
In the wake of Christchurch, hateful memes and ideologies still spread quickly across the web.
Historian Kathleen Belew says a key to understanding the Christchurch attack is to understand the movement that it comes from.
A data scrape reveals what members of the alt-right are saying when nobody is looking.
Should a website collecting the hateful videos and statements of jihadi terror groups be open to the public?
After another mass shooting grips the media, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that she will never say the shooter's name. (episode)
"Meritocracy" was coined as satire; the messaging for and against Medicare for All; and Dutch economic historian Rutger Bregman. (episode)
The college admissions bribery scandal has been said to undermine 'the myth of meritocracy' — but meritocracy was coined as satire, not truth.
On the messaging for and against an healthcare overhaul.
Polls show growing support for "Medicare for All." But over the past century, the idea of the policy has been tied to a messaging war over socialism.
The economist who excoriated billionaires at Davos and his case for Universal Basic Income.
Will Fox News darling Tucker Carlson have to pay a price for newly unearthed despicable comments from his past? Eh, probably not. (episode)
A secret government database of immigration reporters, new questions about the Obama Presidential Center, and the history of Plessy v. Ferguson. (episode)
A leaked database tells a dark story of border paranoia.
The National Archives curates most presidential libraries. The Obama library is taking a different path.
The history of Plessy v. Ferguson and the American path from enslavement to segregation.
Our 2012 conversation with Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science and Fear. (episode)
The Cohen testimony, a new Breaking News Consumer's Handbook, the risks of laundering our hot takes through history, and the story of an infamous Nazi rally. (episode)
Brooke and Bob reflect on the movie tropes embedded in Michael Cohen's testimony.
To help you make sense of the rumors and revelations to come.
How history and academic scholarship have gotten in the way of understanding the Trump presidency.
How a documentary about a 1936 far-right rally ignited a controversy last month.