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The push for a female libido pill reveals misunderstandings about female sexuality. Plus: Jorge Ramos is a real journalist; stock market misreporting; and more. (episode)
Brooke shares her thoughts on the WDBJ-TV shooting in Virginia.
After a confrontation with the GOP front-runner this week, some accused Jorge Ramos of being an advocate - not a journalist. They're wrong: he's both, and that's what his viewers want.
When stocks go haywire, so do reporters. A breaking news consumer's handbook to help you make sense of senseless stock market coverage.
Josh Ostrovsky, better known by his social media alter-ego "The Fat Jew," was recently signed by mega-agency CAA, arousing the ire of comedians who say he steals their jokes.
Vilified by the media, Josh Ostrovsky (aka "The Fat Jew") mostly declined comment to the press, until Vulture.com's Jesse David Fox finally persuaded him to talk. It didn't go well.
The first FDA-approved drug to treat sexual dysfunction in women has been hailed as "the female Viagra." But like nearly all aspects of the drug, it's not quite that simple.
The eighth in our summer listening series. (episode)
Media scapegoats for the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, imagining a Trump presidency, and the NSA's "house philosopher." (episode)
Revisiting the story of Sal and Mabel Mangano, nursing home owners who became media scapegoats for the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.
It takes little effort to make an impression online. But erasing that impression can be impossible. Privacy watchdog John Simpson on the need for a "right to be forgotten" in the US.
A nonprofit harnesses the power of fax machines to protest cybersecurity legislation.
The Committee to Protect Journalists' Joel Simon says many media organizations are putting readers in danger by publishing without encryption.
Buried in the trove of documents leaked by Edward Snowden was a series of internal opinion columns entitled The SIGINT Philosopher. How'd the NSA wind up with an in-house philosopher?
Looking back on the impossible but true election of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States. Adapted from the article by Jon Lovett for The Atlantic.
Looking back on the impossible election and catastrophic reign of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States. Adapted from the article by Jon Lovett for The Atlantic. (episode)
The seventh in our summer listening series. (episode)
Fox makes a strange deal with Donald Trump. Plus, Ferguson a year later, and writer David Lipsky on the late David Foster Wallace. (episode)
Fox News president Roger Ailes got the record ratings he was hoping for from the network's GOP primary debate - but at what cost?
Voters say they want electoral reform, so where's the groundswell? Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig says he has a way to hack a referendum into the 2016 election. Okay, we'll bite.
A year after the death of Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri was thrust back into the national spotlight, filtered through a lens of déjà vu.
This summer the Department of Defense released its comprehensive "Law of War Manual," sparking an uproar from the journalistic community.
David Lipsky's interviews with the author David Foster Wallace are the basis of the film "The End Of The Tour." He and Brooke listen to the original tapes of talks with Wallace in 1996.
David Lipsky's interviews with the author David Foster Wallace are the basis of the film "The End Of The Tour." He and Brooke listen to the original tapes of talks with Wallace in 1996. (episode)
The sixth in our summer listening series. (episode)
A special hour on the enthralling genre of true crime. (episode)
Slate's Laura Miller says much True Crime rises above mere pulp.
The 1991 trial of a young woman named Pamela Smart was the first to be covered on TV, gavel to gavel.
When a funeral director named Bernie Tiede shot and killed a wealthy widow in Carthage, Texas, townspeople were sympathetic toward Bernie and indifferent toward the murder victim.
Brooke speaks to writer Deborah Halper about her book on the thriving community of internet sleuths who try to crack cold cases.
Bob talks with Peter Nickeas whose job it is to drive around the city of Chicago all night reporting on shootings.
The fifth in our summer listening series. (episode)