Podcast Episodes

Election lies cost Fox News $787.5 million. Now what?

The Washington Post reports on the impact of Fox News’s $787.5 million settlement of the Dominion defamation case.

There’s new criticism of Missouri’…

3 years, 4 months ago

The felony charges in the shooting of a Black Missouri teen

Prosecutors charged a man in the shooting of 16-year-old Black student Ralph Yarl, who had mistakenly gone to the wrong house to pick up his younger …

3 years, 4 months ago

Deadly new conflict just broke out in Sudan. Here’s why.

CNN explains origins of the deadly new conflict in Sudan.

Next-generation treatments can be complicated to test and administer. The Wall Street Journ…

3 years, 4 months ago

How a landmark trial against Fox News could change libel law

A landmark defamation trial against Fox News begins next week. Legal observers say the outcome could have a big impact on libel laws. Brian Stelter d…

3 years, 4 months ago

Inside the EPA’s most ambitious car-pollution plan ever

New vehicle-pollution rules proposed by the EPA would require two-thirds of cars on the market to be EVs by 2032. Vox looks at what’s in the plan and…

3 years, 4 months ago

What to know about the apparent U.S. intelligence leak

Images of what appear to be highly classified U.S. intelligence documents recently turned up on a social platform popular with gamers. The Wall Stree…

3 years, 4 months ago

How soldiers accused of violent crimes avoid trial

The Army is increasingly allowing service members who face criminal charges for violent crimes to circumvent trial by being discharged from the milit…

3 years, 4 months ago

Who is responsible when artificial intelligence lies?

ChatGPT invented a sexual-harassment scandal and named a real law professor as the accused. Who’s at fault? The Washington Post investigates. 

Home p…

3 years, 4 months ago

Justice Thomas under fire for gifts from GOP billionaire

A ProPublica investigation finds that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted extensive gifts from a billionaire Republican donor, without rep…

3 years, 4 months ago

Sneak Peek: Why we don’t take postpartum mental health seriously enough — and what that means for new parents

Earlier this year, a woman named Lindsay Clancy was charged with the murder of her three children — who were 5 years, 3 years, and 7 months old. Thou…

3 years, 4 months ago