Podcast Episodes

What COVID-19 wrought on Black men

Black people are two and a half times more likely to be hospitalized, and 1.7 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than whites.

That stat from the C…

3 years, 10 months ago

Welcome to Tijuana

Reporter Sandra Dibble spent more than 25 years covering the U.S.-Mexico border for the San Diego Union-Tribune. And what she found out after her fir…

3 years, 10 months ago

The lawyer behind Trump's Jan. 6 attack

Before Jan. 6, 2021, John Eastman was known as a fringe figure in conservative circles. But now, Eastman’s not so fringe anymore.

A California-based f…

3 years, 10 months ago

What's slowing down the Jan. 6 investigation

Hundreds of people have been charged with federal crimes in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. The amount of evidence against many of th…

3 years, 10 months ago

Goodbye, Title 42

Title 42 has plugged up the asylum system since it was put in place at the start of the coronavirus crisis. Since March 2020, U.S. border officials h…

3 years, 11 months ago

The takedown of a dial-up drug network

Beverly Hills resident Ray Mascolo died of a drug overdose in 2020. His passing led investigators to a sprawling, Hollywood-based drug-dealing networ…

3 years, 11 months ago

In praise of long-scorned Black women's hair

When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock during the Oscars for a joke the latter made about the hairstyle of Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, it brought f…

3 years, 11 months ago

A soldier's funeral in Ukraine

L.A. Times foreign correspondent Patrick J. McDonnell has covered Ukrainian refugees flooding into Poland and the funerals for Ukrainian soldiers in …

3 years, 11 months ago

California tries to figure out reparations

Two brothers near Sacramento are fighting for compensation for the land they say was taken from their formerly enslaved ancestors during the Gold Rus…

3 years, 11 months ago

A lot of magic with "Winning Time"

“Binge Sesh” is a new L.A. Times podcast taking a deep dive into the television shows everyone is talking about. For its inaugural season, the series…

3 years, 11 months ago