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The finale of Bob's Docs (really this time), our summer series featuring interviews Bob has done over the years with documentarians about their films. (episode)
A full hour on the history of the war on drugs, common myths about addiction, and how the media fuels drug panics. (episode)
The media coverage of drug abuse is often fraught with hyperbole and inaccuracy. We dispel some of the most common myths.
The "War on Drugs" started long before Nixon. It goes back to a man named Harry J. Anslinger and his quest to demonize and racialize drugs.
Media hysteria about drugs didn't come about overnight. In fact, it has been building for decades -- one drug at a time.
A journalist argues that drug treatment won't work without proper policing.
The finale of Bob's Docs, our summer series featuring interviews Bob has done over the years with documentarians about their films. (episode)
How the environment became a political battleground; connecting the dots between disasters and climate change; and the myth of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (episode)
Sinclair Broadcast Group is poised to expand its reach in local TV news. It has a pro-Trump bent, and pretty low production values.
The Trump administration wants to gut the EPA. But the agency was created by a Republican president in a time of widespread environmental concern. How we got here, and what's at stake.
The scientific field of "extreme weather attribution" offers answers that journalists have long avoided.
The plastic is everywhere.
Bob's Docs is our new summer series featuring interviews Bob has done over the years with documentarians about their films. (episode)
We explore the immigration court system's opacity, the potential chilling effects of Jeff Sessions' leak investigations, and the implications of the Gawker trial. (episode)
Journalists working with whistleblowers have fewer legal protections than we might think.
The immigration courts determine the fates of millions of people. So why aren't they more transparent?
How the administration uses the gang's brutal brand to its advantage.
A new documentary examines how the ultra-wealthy silence journalism.
Bob's Docs is our new summer series featuring interviews Bob has done over the years with documentarians about their films. (episode)
The surprising political history of abortion; how the language we use in the abortion debate impacts us all; how state lawmakers are tightening rules around abortion; and more. (episode)
Historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore explains how the intractable political battle came to be.
Sherri Chessen knows more about the American conversation around abortion than almost anyone. She’s the person who started it.
An OB-GYN reflects on the rules state legislators have made about how she can communicate with her patients.
Does the framing of "choice" limit how we think about abortion?
Bob docs is our new summer series featuring interviews Bob has done over the years with documentarians about their films. (episode)