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A special hour on the perils of reporting on Syria and the tangle of policies that determine the fates of those taken hostage. (episode)
What a prisoner of ISIS can teach us about the challenges confronting intrepid chroniclers of war.
How do you cover a place that's almost impossible to visit?
The world's tangled policy on captives means some live to tell the tale, and others don't.
A look back at two vintage OTM segments on the dropping of the first atomic bombs and how the US government manipulated what information got reported and what got suppressed. (episode)
President Obama visits Hiroshima; a notorious crime is revisited; and Ukraine rewrites its past. How what we choose to remember shapes our world. (episode)
The US and Japan have, understandably, very different narratives about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
The origins of the ubiquitous, insufferable, all-purpose "Keep Calm and Carry On" slogan.
The brother of Kitty Genovese tracks down some of the witnesses to his sister's infamous death in an attempt to get the whole story of her life.
With the help of new "de-communization" laws, the head of Ukraine's Institute of National Memory is doing everything he can to erase certain chapters in Ukraine's past.
"History is about the past. Memory is about how we use the past for the purposes of the present."
Writers from The Daily Show, The Nightly Show, and Full Frontal discuss making "Fake News" that's often more trusted than the real thing. (episode)
What's worse: an algorithm controlling the news you see, or humans? Plus, being public editor; normalizing Trump; and when Anthony Weiner ran for mayor. (episode)
Why we should be more worried about Facebook's algorithms than its human "curators" delivering us our news.
Conservatives were quick to decry Facebook's "liberal bias" -- but others say the problem is concentration, not conviction. Robert McChesney on the dangers of media consolidation.
Margaret Sullivan has just wrapped up four years as the public editor for The New York Times. Was she able to change practices at the paper of record?
You might remember him as "Carlos Danger," but a new documentary sets out to show that Anthony Weiner is more than a punchline.
"Who will Trump's VP pick be? Where does he stand on tax policy? Is he acting more presidential?" Bob says: "Who cares?!" The press must stay on the real story: his dangerous statements.
Trump is now the presumptive nominee of the Republican party. What does that mean for the data journalists who declared his chances slim? (episode)
With Donald Trump as presumptive GOP nominee, pundits are prophesying a third party savior. Same as it ever was. Plus, revisiting the Iranian Revolution and Puerto Rico's debt crisis. (episode)
Could the year that has seen the success of candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders be the moment for a third party centrist? Probably not! But the media sure wish so.
"Critical elections" occur every few decades and can lead to major shifts in the nature of political parties. We may be in the midst of one.
US lawmakers are grappling with what to do about Puerto Rico's debt crisis, raising uncomfortable questions about the mainland's role in the island's plight.
A video-game designer puts you in the shoes of an Iranian photojournalist during the 1979 Revolution.
The current political moment offers a chance to rediscover an old film about an American rise and fall. (episode)