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An end-of-year reflection on emotions, from feelings of oneness with the universe to existential dread. (episode)
The writer is impatient with despair, not only because it paralyzes action, but because the lessons of history teach us that change happens in unexpected and often non-linear ways.
Brooke learned to meditate, so why can't you?
Brooke explores our long fascination with nihilism: why it's popular today, and whether that's always been the case.
Major news networks' mistaken coverage of a purported Wikileaks scoop, and the ethics of doxxing. Plus, Detroit's "chief storyteller" hopes to transform his city's narrative. (episode)
Commentators at Fox News are not mincing words when it comes to the special counsel and his team.
Glenn Greenwald on how a recent misstep by CNN speaks to a disturbing trend in the media's Trump-Russia coverage.
Just deserts or a startling brand of online vigilantism?
Skirting the boundaries of propaganda, but with the best intentions.
Before fakery and fabrication were routine, they were entertaining.
Republicans have promised that their tax plan will make filing simpler. But why's it so complicated in the first place? (episode)
Three months after Puerto Rico was ravaged by hurricanes, the island's future remains uncertain. A special hour on what the storms, and recovery, have revealed. (episode)
As the government grossly underestimates Hurricane Maria's damage, journalists in Puerto Rico work overtime to track the real recovery process.
After Hurricane Maria stripped away Puerto Rico's lush vegetation, residents suddenly saw what had been previously hidden — from unknown neighbors to long-standing political concerns.
Sharing a disaster creates a special kind of humor. But as they say, you had to be there.
Crippled by climate change and facing epidemic poverty and inequality, Puerto Rico can seem like a model of the many weaknesses in our society. Can it also show us a way forward?
Mark Oppenheimer on Kayla Moore's moment, how to spell Hanukkah, and the "Jew" vs. "Jewish" debate. (article)
From Congress to the workplace, how bullies seem to have overrun our lives and how we should and shouldn't respond. Plus, a look back at the historical struggle over taxes in America. (episode)
Democrats and Republicans appear to be playing by two different sets of rules when it comes to sexual assault allegations.
Last week, the Senate pushed through a convoluted 500-page tax bill. Historian Molly Michelmore says this anti-tax frenzy has been a long time coming.
Early this week, MSNBC contributor Sam Seder was fired following a smear campaign by a right wing troll. We talk to Seder about why that was and confront the man responsible.
From our workplaces to the White House, bullies seem to be everywhere. What we need to understand to deal with them properly.
On Friday night, news broke about allegations of sexual harassment against former WNYC host John Hockenberry. This is what the reckoning sounds like at New York Public Radio. (episode)
Breaking down a week of outlandish stories; the Washington Post catches a hoaxer; debating net neutrality; how bots broke public comment; and America's historical love affair with bunk. (episode)
Brooke chews on the ever-loosening relationship with reality in America and abroad.
Is radical transparency the antidote to poisonous misinformation?
Bob is joined by former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief of Reason.com, to debate the FCC's upcoming vote on net neutrality.
How the rise of bots is giving officials cover to ignore citizens.
America may not have invented fakery but one of its first celebrities, PT Barnum, helped perfect it.
The New York Times' profile of a Nazi last weekend set Twitter on fire (and not in a good way). Bob speaks with Buzzfeed's Charlie Warzel about what the story got wrong. (episode)
Science fiction has always been an outlet for our greatest anxieties. Here's how the genre is exploring the reality of climate change. Plus: new words to describe the indescribable. (episode)
Author Jeff VanderMeer has been called the "weird Thoreau" for his nature-inspired science fiction. But what's sci-fi when the future of the planet is unpredictable?
In a novel by Claire Vaye Watkins, a growing sand dune is threatening the Southwest. What can we learn from it?
How we're currently "living in a science fiction story we're writing together."
The distress caused by environmental change needs its own term, and so do other new phenomena in the Anthropocene.