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2016 marks 400 years since Shakespeare's death. We look closely at what the Bard means to us now. (episode)
How the fight over the true identity of William Shakespeare reflects shifting perceptions of culture, class, genius, art, and... ourselves.
Staging Shakespeare's Love's Labors Lost in Kabul as a celebration of hope and a form of therapy.
How the alternative history TV series seems timelier than ever. (episode)
With just four weeks until the inauguration, a look at what President Obama can do -- and what some say he must do -- before Trump takes office. (episode)
With less than four weeks left of the Obama administration, we ask experts what the President should do about Guantanamo, surveillance, dark money, and other important problems.
Brooke Gladstone talks with deputy White House press secretary Eric Schultz about Obama's plans for the next month, and why he's forging ahead with his usual civility.
One physicist's definition: "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
This week, four more officials were charged in the Flint, Michigan water crisis. But the story initially unfolded without national attention. Brooke speaks to muckraker Curt Guyette. (episode)
The Russian hacking saga, the longstanding FBI-CIA rivalry and the future of a famous American propaganda agency. (episode)
What we know about Russian interference in the US election and what is left to find out.
Differing conclusions about Russian involvement in the US election are just the latest example of the longstanding friction between the FBI and CIA.
The FBI has long looked to Hollywood to rehabilitate its image in the face of real world blunders.
Has the US government opened the door to a taxpayer-funded Trump TV?
Voice of America is the largest US international broadcaster. But is it propaganda?
Recently CNN's Jake Tapper asked VPEOTUS Mike Pence the same question over and over again, hoping for an answer. Bob spoke to Tapper back in June about the art of the follow-up. (episode)
Billionaires suing the media, the government's expanded hacking powers, Pizzagate, & more. (episode)
In our precedent-breaking era, is it better to use imagination or apply judgement based on research and history when choosing what to cover?
Changes to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure went into effect last week without debate or discussion in Congress. Did you notice?
Donald Trump has threatened to "open up" our libel laws. But billionaires have already been using existing libel laws to suppress speech that they find unfavorable.
The jury in the Rolling Stone/UVA case found fault with the magazine for posting a disclaimer instead of taking the story down. RS says such disclaimers are the industry's standard.
A bizarre conspiracy theory has been making its way from reddit and YouTube to the mainstream media.
After a mistrial in a police shooting case, we revisit interviews with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and former police officer Eugene O'Donnell. (episode)
We devote this hour to a question put to us pretty much daily since election day: How to cover President Trump? (episode)
News outlets weigh in on how to cover President Trump.
When ideas are fraught, so is word choice.
The journalist Masha Gessen recently wrote "Autocracy: Rules for Survival" based on experiences from Putin's Russia and elsewhere. She discusses prospects for journalism and language.
A cognitive linguist argues that normalizing Trump is inevitable, unless the media rethink a couple basic rules of journalism.
In 1957 Fidel Castro was rumored to be dead until a fateful interview with NYT reporter Herbert Matthews in the Cuban jungle. Also: how (not) to cover Cuba. (episode)