Podcast Episodes

South Park Understands the Assignment

After using a Trump-stand-in during his first administration, South Park has come back from hiatus as vulgar and confrontational as ever, with its aiming firmly fixed on MAGA. Contrary to government …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Gutting Our National Parks

From the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge, and places in between like Yellowstone and the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, the National Park Service has been a point of American pride sin…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

TBD | Here Comes the A.I. Music Slop

It’s hard to make money in the music industry. But if you could flood every streamer with hundreds of “original” songs without having to, you know, write or produce it yourself, there’s money there—a…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers

In January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was moving from employing professional fact-checkers to letting its users fact-check each other. If you’ve heard that it’s going perfectly, then you, t…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Donald Trump Vs. Reality Itself

Donald Trump’s never been all that committed to the truth. But experts are warning that by firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and appointing loyalists across the judiciary, he’s taken …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

A Rabbi’s Plea for Peace

More than a thousand rabbis and Jewish leaders have signed a letter calling for Israel to end “the use and threat of starvation as a weapon of war.” This New York rabbi, who has felt a connection to …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Don’t Mess With Texas’s Election Maps

How Texas redrawing its election maps could set off a gerrymandering arms race across the country—a race the Republicans are likely to win. 

Guest:  Ari Berman is a voting rights correspondent at Mot…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Was Democracy Voted Out?

Belief in democracy was, until quite recently, taken for granted in America. But what if democracy is less a static noun, and more of a dynamic ideal we (could be) working towards?

Guest:  

Osita Nwa…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

TBD | The A.I. Data Center Push That Wasn't

OpenAI’s Sam Altman, flanked by President Trump and Softbank’s Masayoshi Son, announced a hugely ambitious investment in data centers across America to support all the artificial intelligence we’re g…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Bonus: When the French Bombed Greenpeace

Some disputes resist an easy “good vs. evil” dynamic, but when one side calls their plans “Operation Satanique,” it’s not too hard to figure who “the baddies” are.

Guest: Dan Kois, Slate writer.

Arti…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago