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It's the latest and last installment of Bob's Grill, and we've got a special guest chef (it's Brooke). We revisit a 2005 interview with former CNN President Jon Klein. (episode)
Amid speculation over Clinton's physical health and Trump's mental health, a look at the ethics of diagnosing from afar. Plus, how climate change is literally reshaping the country. (episode)
As right-wing rumors about Clinton's health spread, the media continues to speculate about Trump's mental health. On the ethics of diagnosing candidates.
Mental health experts are generally advised to stay out of political debate. But are there moments that call for a break with convention?
It took mainstream media several days to catch on to the latest historically destructive floods in Louisiana. Was it just bad timing or evidence of a greater lack of understanding?
The state map of Louisiana is an iconic shape: a boot, a large L in the American South. But it's also a lie that obscures a huge environmental threat.
The Rio Olympics proceeded without major hiccups, belying the media's doomsday lead-up coverage. But were the Games a success for the residents of Rio?
What is the point of sports? How important is the biological distinction between men and women? These questions are wrapped up in the coverage of Olympics athlete Caster Semenya.
This week on Bob's Grill: an interview with ExxonMobil spokesman Richard Keil about an investigation into what the company knew, and when, about climate change. (episode)
A special hour on publishing--from Amazon’s flirtation with brick-and-mortar bookstores to wholesale suppliers shilling books by the foot as decorative objects. (episode)
Stories about the imperiled publishing industry have become so familiar that it was something of a shock when publishers reported marked growth in 2015.
Years before adult coloring books were whimsical stress relievers, they were objects of political subversion.
We consider whether physical bookshops hold the key to the retailer's digital strategy.
Write a great book and you're a genius. Turn a book into a great film and you're a visionary. Turn a great film into a book...that's another story. Inside the world of novelizations.
Driven by the desire to amass a beautiful library of rare books, a bibliophile becomes a notorious thief.
The Frederick, Maryland warehouse of Wonder Book is where unwanted used books go to find a second life--as decorative objects sold by the foot to fill empty bookshelves.
This week on Bob’s Grill: an encounter with “sting operation” videographer James O’Keefe. (episode)
Political commentators have reliably been wrong this election season. We take a look at why pundits make bad predictions, and why they probably won't stop. (episode)
If political prognostication is usually so wrong, why do we keep listening? And what makes a good forecaster, anyway?
What if the problem with polling isn't bad polls but polls in general? The New Yorker's Jill Lepore on the history of polling and why skepticism is, and has always been, necessary.
You've heard that money buys elections. But if most of it is used on ineffective television ads, then what is it really buying?
What if the will of the electorate could be divined without polling and pundit guesswork? There may be a way.
Why are pundits like Bill Kristol still paid for their botch prognostications?
A burger and a cold one just won’t suffice on Bob’s Grill #2. This week he's roasting a whole pig: Hunter Moore, revenge porn site creator. (episode)
The quadrennial third party dilemma; a case for voting with the head, not the heart; probing the "Nader-as-spoiler" narrative; and more. (episode)
After a year of misguided media speculation about whether Trump’s latest outburst has gone “too far,” we ask: is that the wrong question?
Bob presses an editor from the Daily Caller on the demeaning right-wing media coverage of Khizr Khan.
What does it really mean to vote your conscience?
A Canadian initiative urging citizens to vote strategically got results in 2015. Can America learn from it?
Nader's role as spoiler in the 2000 election has been used as a cautionary tale for the American Left ever since. Sixteen years later, a reevaluation of the facts.
You can't spoil something that wasn't good to begin with, says Ralph Nader.
Our series of some of Bob's most sizzling interviews from years past kicks off with former New York Times journalist Judith Miller. (episode)