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The Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes
In 2014, Fortune magazine ran a cover story featuring Elizabeth Holmes: a blonde woman wearing a black turtleneck, staring deadpan at the camera, wit…
7 years, 11 months ago
Using My Religion
More than two thousand reporters went to Singapore to cover the summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un. This week, we examine how so much cov…
7 years, 11 months ago
Seymour Hersh Looks Back (extended mix)
For decades, Seymour Hersh has been an icon of muckraking, investigative reporting: his work exposed such atrocities as the massacre of Vietnamese ci…
7 years, 11 months ago
Perps Walk
Justice for whom? President Trump’s controversial pardoning spree has benefited political allies and nonviolent drug offenders alike. This week, we l…
7 years, 11 months ago
Hurricane Season
Puerto Rico was (briefly) back in the news this week when a Harvard study shed more light on many people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Th…
7 years, 11 months ago
The Worst Thing We've Ever Done
After World War II, Germany and the Allied powers took pains to make sure that its citizens would never forget the country’s dark history. But in Ame…
7 years, 11 months ago
Fact Checking #WhereAreTheChildren
We talk a lot about right wing news outlets picking up out-of-context facts and amplifying them in their outrage machine, so as to infuriate and vali…
7 years, 11 months ago
Technical Foul
Rudy Giuliani has been warning the press that the president may not testify in the Russia investigation, but Trump has signaled otherwise. This week,…
7 years, 11 months ago
Glenn Beck Reverses His Reversal
In November 2016, Bob spoke to Blaze bloviator Glenn Beck to hear about how he was a changed man. More compassionate, a better listener and very oppo…
8 years ago
Africatown
Just outside of Mobile, Alabama, sits the small community of Africatown, a town established by the last known slaves brought to America, illegally, i…
8 years ago