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Protestors are expressing outrage over police brutality, while the President is threatening violence against them on Twitter. Plus: the history of the Karen meme. (episode)
A white woman called 911 on a black man in Central Park, and was quickly dubbed a “Karen.” Why?
White women have power that comes from perceived weakness — and that can make it a hard kind of power to talk about.
Should Twitter just kick Trump off the platform?
Bob speaks to Chase Woodruff, recently laid off from an alt-weekly, about how with the loss of those papers, vital outlets for resistance and emotion will be lost too. (episode)
Can a fractured America grieve? How obituaries may help us heal, and what's at stake if we don't. (episode)
Remembering New Yorkers lost to Covid-19 with an ambitious, crowd-sourced obituary project.
Decades from now, historians will turn to obituaries to understand the pandemic.
Will America mourn together when this is all over?
Until recently, that deadly pandemic has been mostly absent from our collective memory.
On the lessons from the movement for and against the Equal Rights Amendment. (episode)
Opacity in the federal government, mishandled comms on the local level, and conspiracy thinking on the web. (episode)
Communities in the American heartland are becoming coronavirus hotspots. But residents are being cut off from data that show how severe it's getting.
There’s a literal playbook for communications during an epidemic. Seattle followed it. New York didn’t.
Attempting to heal the harm caused by "Plandemic" and other conspiracy theories.
Advocates for online courts cite efficiency — but at what cost? (episode)
The local news business at the intersection of transformation and annihilation. (episode)
America's local-news deserts are expanding.
A brief and spine-chilling history of the demise of a centuries-old business model.
One newly-jobless investigative reporter reflects on what her and her colleagues' joblessness means for their city.
Report For America presents one possible solution to the collapse of the local news industry.
A silver bullet isn't coming — but the media and the public are running out of patience. (episode)
Allegations against Joe Biden present a problem for the media. Plus, what does "reopening the economy" even mean? (episode)
New evidence means new attention on the sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden. But who will ultimately pay the price?
Yes, there's some grassroots organizing. There's also some astroturf funding.
On how the idea of one "economy" shapes our priorities.
The economy isn't going back to normal. Where is it going?