On the Media

01 Aug 2025

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As reports of starving children in Gaza mount, France, Britain, and Canada are preparing to recogniz...

30 Jul 2025

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Brooke spoke in May with McKay Coppins, a staff writer at The Atlantic, about the remarkable, extens...

25 Jul 2025

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The FCC just approved a lucrative merger between Paramount and Skydance. Weeks earlier, Paramount se...

23 Jul 2025

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EXTENDED VERSION: Brooke sits down with Jessa Crispin, critic and editor-in-chief of The Culture We ...

19 Jul 2025

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The Trump administration is trying to subdue fury from all angles over the Epstein Files. On this we...

16 Jul 2025

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The Atlantic hurricane season is currently underway – and in fact, it was the tail end of tropical...

Fri, 11 Jul

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Like it or not, more people are using artificial intelligence than ever. On this week’s On the Med...

Wed, 9 Jul

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 In Amanda Hess' new book, Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age, she explores the many ap...

Fri, 4 Jul

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President Trump is asking lawmakers to claw back over a billion dollars in federal funds for public ...

Wed, 2 Jul

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Today's country music industry is deeply associated with a certain jingoistic ‘rally around the fl...

Fri, 27 Jun

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s revamped CDC vaccine advisory board stopped recommending cert...

Wed, 25 Jun

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This week, On the Media shares the final episode of Dead End: The Rise and Fall of Gold Bar Bob Mene...

Fri, 20 Jun

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President Donald Trump says he’ll decide whether or not to attack Iran within the next two weeks. ...

Wed, 18 Jun

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In this week's midweek podcast, we share the next installment of WNYC's Dead End: The Rise and Fall ...

Fri, 13 Jun

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A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s deployment of troops in Los Angeles was illega...

Wed, 11 Jun

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Bob Menendez will become the first Senator to go to prison in more than 40 years when he reports to ...

Fri, 6 Jun

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President Donald Trump’s countless executive orders and mounting deportations are testing America’...

Wed, 4 Jun

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This past weekend, OTM co-host Micah Loewinger went to Seattle to sit down with an all-time favourit...

Fri, 30 May

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On Tuesday, NPR and three Colorado public radio stations sued the Trump administration for violating...

Wed, 28 May

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EPISODE 4In recent years, creative, often music-focused pirate broadcasting has been thriving on sho...

Fri, 23 May

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Before they were appointed, the leaders of the F.B.I. boosted misinformation about a ‘deep state.’...

Wed, 21 May

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EPISODE 3Today, in the internet era, much of the shortwaves have been left to the most extreme voice...

Fri, 16 May

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On Monday, dozens of Afrikaners arrived in the US as refugees. On this week’s On the Media, how a ...

Wed, 14 May

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EPISODE 2Many governments eased off the shortwaves after the Cold War, and homegrown US-based rightw...

Fri, 9 May

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President Trump’s many executive orders, detentions, and deportations have triggered a host of law...

Wed, 7 May

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EPISODE 1:You know AM and FM radio. But did you know that there is a whole other world of radio surr...

Sat, 3 May

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To mark his first hundred days in office, President Trump signed three executive orders related to i...

Wed, 30 Apr

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The Redstone family is a controlling shareholder of Paramount Global — one of the biggest entertai...

Fri, 25 Apr

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The Federal Communications Commission is currently investigating CBS for “intentional news distort...

Wed, 23 Apr

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**EXTENDED VERSION**Micah spoke to left-wing YouTuber, David Pakman for last week's show. This is th...

Sat, 19 Apr

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Conservative influencers have captured a massive audience on the internet, boasting nearly five time...

Wed, 16 Apr

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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been edged out of the headlines this...

Sat, 12 Apr

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The president’s on-again, off-again tariffs are wreaking havoc on the economy. On this week’s On...

Wed, 9 Apr

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This week we’re bringing you an interview from our friends at the New Yorker Radio Hour. It's a co...

Fri, 4 Apr

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The Trump administration has pulled funding for universities like Columbia and the University of Pen...

Wed, 2 Apr

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According to the American Gaming Association, bets on March Madness basketball games could amount to...

Fri, 28 Mar

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When a journalist was accidentally added to a Signal chat that disclosed sensitive war plans, a cont...

Wed, 26 Mar

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President Trump's appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, is making a lot of c...

Fri, 21 Mar

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The Trump administration has cut funding for Voice of America, the 80-year-old state media network. ...

Wed, 19 Mar

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This week's midweek podcast is a segment from Tuesdays episode of the Brian Lehrer show -- the legen...

Fri, 14 Mar

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A Columbia University graduate who led protests last year has been detained by I.C.E. Even though he...

Wed, 12 Mar

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Last January the hedge fund Alden Global Capital sold The Baltimore Sun to David Smith, an executive...

Fri, 7 Mar

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President Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff announcements sent stock markets plunging. On this we...

Wed, 5 Mar

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Since Kash Patel was announced as the director for the FBI, pundits have warned of a return to the e...

Sat, 1 Mar

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Breaking from a century of tradition, the White House says it will seize control of the press pool c...

Wed, 26 Feb

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Days before Russia invaded Ukraine 3 years ago, Russian president Vladimir Putin read an essay he...

Fri, 21 Feb

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Elon Musk’s claims of fraudulent government spending contain some wild inaccuracies. On this week'...

Wed, 19 Feb

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This week, the Senate will consider more of Trump’s Cabinet nominees, including his pick for FBI d...

Sat, 15 Feb

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The new administration is purging data from government websites and databases, such as the Departmen...

Wed, 12 Feb

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Micah joins Anna Sale on Death, Sex and Money to revisit their 2023 conversation with Tasha Adams, e...

Sat, 8 Feb

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Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has accessed sensitive information at the treasury a...

Wed, 5 Feb

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According to the Financial Times, 225 out of Musk’s 616 tweets and retweets in the first week of J...

Sat, 1 Feb

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 President Donald Trump has signed dozens of executive orders since returning to office. On this we...

Wed, 29 Jan

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When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, all the big tech firms were clamoring to make their o...

Sat, 25 Jan

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President Donald Trump’s second term began with a flurry of executive orders and press. On this we...

Wed, 22 Jan

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We are living in history all of the time. Nevertheless, there are some times that seem more historic...

Fri, 17 Jan

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The Supreme Court has upheld a ban on TikTok. On this week’s On the Media, hear how the ruling cou...

Wed, 15 Jan

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There have been hints dropped that the incoming administration intends to shake up the White House b...

Fri, 10 Jan

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NPR and PBS stations are bracing for war with the incoming Trump administration. On this week’s On...

Wed, 8 Jan

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In the aftermath of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, politicians, pundits, and ...

Fri, 3 Jan

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The complete story of American imperialism is missing from our history books. On this week’s On th...

Wed, 1 Jan

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With Trump’s imminent return to the White House, we’ve decided to take stock of how political an...

Fri, 27 Dec

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It’s been almost a year since the historic music outlet Pitchfork shrank considerably. On this wee...

Wed, 25 Dec

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For the new documentary, The Bibi Files, director Alexis Bloom uses hundreds of hours of leaked, pre...

Fri, 20 Dec

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Donald Trump has a big plan to remake American universities. On this week’s On the Media, hear how...

Wed, 18 Dec

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This year was earth’s hottest on record, and the Atlantic storm season brought with it five major ...

Fri, 13 Dec

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The suspected killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has been crowned a hero by many on social media. On...

Wed, 11 Dec

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Last week, the website for Enron – yes, that Enron – came back online. And on Monday the new CEO...

Fri, 6 Dec

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Many of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are emulating online influencers in their efforts to sell pro...

Wed, 4 Dec

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Over the weekend, president-elect Donald Trump nominated a little-known, largely inexperienced civil...

Fri, 29 Nov

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How did the right get their vice grip of the airwaves, all the while arguing that they were being ce...

Wed, 27 Nov

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Our latest episode featured Micah's interview with Hank Green, a very popular YouTuber and science c...

Sat, 23 Nov

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A recent report from the Pew Research Center finds that 1 in 5 Americans get their news from influen...

Wed, 20 Nov

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In the run up to the election Donald Trump was doggedly pursuing the votes of young men. He courted ...

Fri, 15 Nov

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Many of Donald J. Trump’s cabinet picks have something in common: a very close relationship with F...

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 04:42:33 +0000

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Many media outlets were prepared for conspiracy theories and lies to spread after the election. But ...

Fri, 8 Nov

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Since Donald J. Trump won the election, journalists have been retreading his path to victory, and di...

Wed, 6 Nov

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Brooke and Micah recorded a conversation on Wednesday morning after the election. On the Media is su...

Sat, 2 Nov

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As the election approaches, conspiracy theories have flooded social media. On this week’s On the M...

Wed, 30 Oct

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Donald Trump is being called a fascist – by his former appointees and his opponent Kamala Harris.O...

Fri, 25 Oct

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Donald Trump is being called a fascist – by his former appointees, as well as by his opponent Kama...

Wed, 23 Oct

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For the last few years, patriotism has been stuck in the wheelhouse of the GOP. A Gallup poll from J...

Sat, 19 Oct

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This election is set to be the most expensive ever. On this week’s On the Media, what does a billi...

Wed, 16 Oct

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The new film “The Apprentice,” takes us back to New York in the 1970s, to when Donald Trump was ...

Fri, 11 Oct

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When Fox News launched in 1996, critics joked about its incompetence. But just a few years later, th...

Wed, 9 Oct

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It’s been less than two weeks since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, tearing through the...

Fri, 4 Oct

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Israel has launched a ground invasion into Lebanon. On this week’s On the Media, hear from a repor...

Wed, 2 Oct

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And exclusive sneak peek of a brand new radio play starring Edie Falco, John Turturro and Tony Shalh...

Fri, 27 Sep

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In Georgia, a controversial new rule to hand-count ballots is being challenged in court. On this wee...

Wed, 25 Sep

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When Fox News launched in 1996, critics called it “disorganized, incompetent, and laughably inept”...

Fri, 20 Sep

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Lies that immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio have inspired dozens of threats against th...

Wed, 18 Sep

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Last Tuesday, as audience members and press were still milling about the presidential debate stage i...

Fri, 13 Sep

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Kamala Harris has come under fire for ignoring interview requests from the press. On this week’s O...

Wed, 11 Sep

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Last summer, OTM host Micah Loewenger reported a piece about the rise of worker-owned newsrooms: Hel...

Fri, 6 Sep

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At a town hall event hosted by Fox, Donald Trump shared a number of falsehoods, and appeared to conf...

Wed, 4 Sep

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Brooke and Micah update the listeners about a new funding model for the show.  On the Media is supp...

Fri, 30 Aug

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During election season, voters hope to glimpse the true selves of presidential candidates. And somet...

Wed, 28 Aug

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A recent update to the Apple podcast app also included a tweak to how podcast downloads work. As a p...

Fri, 23 Aug

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When President Biden campaigned for re-election, he highlighted threats to democracy and his long tr...

Wed, 21 Aug

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This is an episode from the Vox daily news podcast, Today, Explained. Host Noel King spoke with OTM ...

Fri, 16 Aug

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New York City’s alternative weekly newspaper, The Village Voice, birthed a generation of legendary...

Wed, 14 Aug

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In 2011, a group of high school girls in the small town of Le Roy, New York started coming down with...

Fri, 9 Aug

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This week, Kamala Harris’ VP pick Tim Walz went viral for being a typical Midwestern dad. On this ...

Wed, 7 Aug

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Brooke Gladstone interviews Kathryn Hughes, author of Catland, about the storied history of the cat ...

Fri, 2 Aug

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Vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance’s remarks on childless cat ladies have ties to a movement urg...

Wed, 31 Jul

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“The Sound of Sport” was produced by Peregrine Andrews for Falling Tree Productions and original...

Fri, 26 Jul

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Conservative media outlets are testing a series of talking points to discredit the leading Democrati...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 01:10:47 +0000

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Moments after President Biden withdrew from the presidential race on Sunday, GOP leaders rushed to t...

Fri, 19 Jul

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At the Republican National Convention, Donald J. Trump named J.D. Vance as his pick for Vice Preside...

Wed, 17 Jul

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Across the globe, summers are getting unseasonably, and scarily hot, and last year the United Nation...

Fri, 12 Jul

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Immigration is one of the most important issues in this year’s presidential election. This week, O...

Wed, 10 Jul

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In January 2023, a TV show called In the Know debuted on Peacock. The comedy is a parody of a dai...

Fri, 5 Jul

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Every year on the Fourth of July, households across America embrace the aesthetics of patriotism. On...

Wed, 3 Jul

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Last month, Clarence Thomas acknowledged several luxury trips that were gifted to him by billionaire...

Fri, 28 Jun

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Some of the most outrageous stories about President Biden are originating from a single, unverified ...

Wed, 26 Jun

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This week, we turn away from the media for a moment, to a realm thousands of feet beneath the ocean’...

Fri, 21 Jun

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Why does every social media platform seem to get worse over time? This week’s On the Media explore...

Fri, 21 Jun

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Over the past few months, The Washington Post has weathered a slate of unfavorable news. In May, pub...

Fri, 14 Jun

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Over the past two decades, 900 British postal workers were wrongfully prosecuted for fraud. On this ...

Wed, 12 Jun

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This week's midweek podcast comes from our colleagues at the New Yorker Radio Hour:On the Netflix re...

Fri, 7 Jun

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This week, the Department of Justice accused one of the most influential right wing outlets of laund...

Wed, 5 Jun

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Something happened on the internet this week that was at once HUGE and also kind of a foregone concl...

Sat, 1 Jun

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When Donald J. Trump was found guilty on all counts in the hush money trial, some in the press were ...

Wed, 29 May

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Micah breaks down media hype about AI. According to Sam Harnett, a former tech reporter, journalists...

Fri, 24 May

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A majority of Americans believe that the economy is in a recession even though it’s not. On this w...

Wed, 22 May

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Immigration consistently polls as one of the most important topics for voters. According to a recent...

Fri, 17 May

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On this week’s On the Media we revisit another fraught moment in American democracy: the contested...

Wed, 15 May

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This week, President Biden announced major new tariffs on $18 billion worth of imports from China. T...

Fri, 10 May

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In reports about pro-Palestinian college encampments, comparisons to the anti-war demonstrations of ...

Wed, 8 May

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Last week, news broke that writer Paul Auster died from complications related to lung cancer. The Ne...

Fri, 3 May

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When politicians publish their autobiographies, often they reveal more than intended. On this week’...

Wed, 1 May

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Chinese science fiction has gone from a niche, underground genre to the country's hottest new export...

Fri, 26 Apr

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Trump is back in court for his hush money trial hearing, and his immunity case was argued at the Sup...

Wed, 24 Apr

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Alex Garland's new film, 'Civil War,' debuted at no. 1 at the box office earlier this month, and  f...

Fri, 19 Apr

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Former president Trump says he wants to make America pray again. On this week’s On the Media, hear...

Wed, 17 Apr

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April 19th, which is this Friday, marks an odd holiday known as Bicycle Day — the day, now 81 yea...

Fri, 12 Apr

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New York City’s alternative weekly newspaper, The Village Voice, birthed a generation of legendary...

Wed, 10 Apr

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The Village Voice, founded in 1955, is widely credited as the first alternative weekly newspaper, o...

Fri, 5 Apr

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President Joe Biden is calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as famine looms. On this week’s On the Medi...

Wed, 3 Apr

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With his cool rhymes and even cooler clothes, Basketball Hall of Famer Walt "Clyde" Frazier made a s...

Fri, 29 Mar

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Following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, conspiracy theories proliferate...

Wed, 27 Mar

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Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, comes out on Friday — and the record has already sparked p...

Fri, 22 Mar

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Donald Trump said if he isn’t elected there will be a bloodbath. Or did he? On this week’s On th...

Wed, 20 Mar

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On Wednesday, March 29 2023, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained by the FSB, ...

Fri, 15 Mar

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Recently, the House passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless the app’s Chinese owner...

Wed, 13 Mar

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Writer Calvin Trillin joined The New Yorker in 1963, and he continues to contribute today. Trillin’...

Fri, 8 Mar

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Donald Trump recently held a meeting with Elon Musk, the owner of the site formerly known as Twitter...

Wed, 6 Mar

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Few clichés are as well-worn, and grounded in reality, as the dread many Americans feel towards do...

Fri, 1 Mar

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A Palestinian-American college student was shot in Vermont last fall. On this week’s On the Media,...

Wed, 28 Feb

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In February, Donald Trump praised Russia for being a "war machine" and said that Russia should “...

Fri, 23 Feb

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An Alabama Supreme Court ruling on frozen embryos threatens fertility treatments across the state. O...

Wed, 21 Feb

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  Russia's jailed opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has died in prison. Navalny had been living b...

Fri, 16 Feb

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Coverage of President Joe Biden’s age has reached a fever pitch. On this week’s On the Media, he...

Wed, 14 Feb

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Last week we learned that ousted Fox blowhard Tucker Carlson had gone to Russia. He was spotted eati...

Fri, 9 Feb

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In December, the New York Times sued OpenAI for allegedly using the paper’s articles to train chat...

Wed, 7 Feb

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Naomi Klein has been confused for writer Naomi Wolf for much of her career. Wolf rose to prominence...

Fri, 2 Feb

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to defy the federal government’s control over the border...

Wed, 31 Jan

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In Micah Loewinger's introduction to this interview, he shared this personal anecdote: "Before I lan...

Fri, 26 Jan

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After New Hampshire and Iowa, the GOP field is narrowing to Donald Trump's benefit once again. On th...

Wed, 24 Jan

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This week we're featuring the work of our colleagues at WNYC: Valerie Reyes-Jimenez called it “The...

Fri, 19 Jan

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This year has had a rocky start for journalism. The Baltimore Sun changed hands again, and layoffs l...

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 22:49:00 +0000

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EXTENDED VERSION; Nightmarish images of destruction in Gaza have filled the news and social media f...

Fri, 12 Jan

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The conflict in the Middle East has already killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. On this week’...

Wed, 10 Jan

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50 years ago ABBA won the contest for the song Waterloo.  Recently Brooke's old friend Charlie aske...

Fri, 5 Jan

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Daniel Ellsberg, the famed whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the Washington Post, died...

Wed, 3 Jan

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On February 23, 1972, oral arguments began in the Supreme Court for a case that would shape the cour...

Fri, 29 Dec

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And just like that, the year is coming to a close. On this episode of On the Media, hear about the c...

Wed, 27 Dec

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During this holiday season, you likely encountered public nativity scenes depicting the birth of Jes...

Fri, 22 Dec

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In the run up to the 2024 election, polls are frontpage news. On this week’s On the Media, a guide...

Wed, 20 Dec

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This holiday season, book store displays — and Christmas stockings — will be filled with novels ...

Fri, 15 Dec

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An unprecedented deal on transitioning away from fossil fuels was struck at the United Nations’ CO...

Wed, 13 Dec

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Norman lear the veteran writer and producer behind such hit TV shows as All in the Family and The...

Fri, 8 Dec

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This holiday season, media outlets across the country are raising the alarm about an apparent crisis...

Wed, 6 Dec

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This month marks the anniversary of when most of us first heard about George Santos and his ever-exp...

Fri, 1 Dec

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After a seven-day ceasefire, fighting has resumed in Gaza. On this week’s On the Media, how the wo...

Wed, 29 Nov

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In his Veteran’s day speech a couple of weeks ago former President Donald Trump said this about hi...

Fri, 24 Nov

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This year has seen record layoffs in the media industry, with some digital news giants closing down ...

Wed, 22 Nov

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In September, The New Yorker published an article by Clare Malone titled “Hasan Minhaj’s Emotion...

Fri, 17 Nov

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President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping just recently met face-to-face for the first time in a year. On t...

Wed, 15 Nov

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As we've discussed on the show at length, most recently with Cory Doctorow in our series The Enshitt...

Fri, 10 Nov

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Donald Trump was out of sight at the GOP presidential primary debate – but definitely not out of m...

Wed, 8 Nov

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Last week on the show, Brooke spoke to two writers about new wrinkles in the now 6-year-old #MeToo ...

Fri, 3 Nov

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Israel began a ground operation in Gaza as a conflict that’s already left thousands dead continues...

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 03:00:00 +0000

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There's been no shortage of opinions across the globe as the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on. But sta...

Fri, 27 Oct

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Experts say disinformation around the Israel-Hamas war is running rampant. On this week’s On the M...

Wed, 25 Oct

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It's been over 20 days since the United States has had a Speaker of the House. Republican Kevin McC...

Fri, 20 Oct

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More than twenty journalists have been killed during the recent Israel-Hamas conflict. On this week’...

Wed, 18 Oct

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This week, amid the deluge of coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict following Hamas’ surprise atta...

Fri, 13 Oct

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In the third episode of "We Don't Talk About Leonard," Leonard Leo is in Maine, a man in his castle,...

Wed, 11 Oct

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This week, Bloomberg reported that social media posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict have led to a ...

Fri, 6 Oct

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Leonard Leo realized that in order to generate conservative rulings, the Supreme Court needs the rig...

Wed, 4 Oct

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Donald Trump is in court this week in New York City, again, for a multimillion dollar civil fraud t...

Fri, 29 Sep

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In this first episode of our new miniseries, We Don't Talk About Leonard, ProPublica reporters Andre...

Wed, 27 Sep

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In late August, Gannett, the country’s largest newspaper company, rolled out a new artificial inte...

Fri, 22 Sep

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Thousands of protesters descended on New York as the United Nations convened its Climate Summit. On ...

Wed, 20 Sep

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  In July, the World Health Organization issues a report indicating that aspartame, an artificial s...

Fri, 15 Sep

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The House has opened a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden. On this week’s On the Medi...

Mon, 11 Sep

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Twenty-two years ago, two planes crashed into the Twin Towers. Another plane hit the Pentagon, and ...

Fri, 8 Sep

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This week a former Proud Boys leader received the longest prison sentence for the insurrection so fa...

Thu, 7 Sep 2023 21:56:00 +0000

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In early August, Christopher Anthony Lunsford, who goes by Oliver Anthony, quietly released a song c...

Fri, 1 Sep

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Why does every social media platform seem to get worse over time? This week’s On the Media explore...

Wed, 30 Aug

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In March 2021, when President Joe Biden announced the nomination of Lina Khan to be a commissioner...

Fri, 25 Aug

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In late 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba started hearing a mysterious buzzing sound and expe...

Wed, 23 Aug

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When two blockbuster movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer, premiered in U.S. theaters on the same day in J...

Fri, 18 Aug

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This summer’s extreme heat has contributed to disasters around the world--but some of them are har...

Wed, 16 Aug

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In the first half of the last school year, PEN America has recorded almost 900 different books pulle...

Fri, 11 Aug

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When the US women’s soccer team was knocked out of the world cup, they became the latest target of...

Wed, 9 Aug

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This week, another legal blow for former president Donald Trump after a judge ruled to dismiss Trump...

Fri, 4 Aug

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This year, the Department of Defense began renaming military bases that honor the Confederacy. On th...

Wed, 2 Aug

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According to a New York Times-Siena poll released this week 54 percent of republican voters said if ...

Fri, 28 Jul

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Click here to support this work. President Biden just ordered U.S. investigators to share evidence ...

Wed, 26 Jul

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The researchers at Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab gather in a carpeted underground bunker, beneath...

Fri, 21 Jul

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This year has seen record layoffs in the media industry, with some digital news giants closing down ...

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:43:00 +0000

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For the big show this weekend OTM correspondent Micah Loewinger is working on a piece about the ext...

Fri, 14 Jul

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Over the past year, the federal reserve has raised interest rates repeatedly in its attempt to curb ...

Wed, 12 Jul

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This spring, Volkswagen and Mazda announced that they will be removing AM radios from their upcoming...

Fri, 7 Jul

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This year, headlines have been dominated by claims that artificial intelligence will either save hum...

Wed, 5 Jul

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The dominance of giant streaming services like Netflix and Disney Plus has led to the current strik...

Fri, 30 Jun

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Almost as soon as an armed rebellion flared in Russia last week, it fizzled. On this week’s On the...

Wed, 28 Jun

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On Monday, CNN aired a bombshell recording in the classified documents case against former president...

Fri, 23 Jun

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Daniel Ellsberg, the famed whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the Washington Post, has ...

Wed, 21 Jun

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Last Monday, Reddit moderators from nearly 9,000 subreddits shut down their forums in what might be ...

Fri, 16 Jun

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On Tuesday, former president Trump was arraigned following his federal indictment. On this week’s ...

Wed, 14 Jun

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In late 2021, Isabella Weber, an economist at University of Massachusetts, Amherst published a pape...

Fri, 9 Jun

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CNN recently ousted CEO Chris Licht after a bombshell profile brought up questions about CNN’s edi...

Wed, 7 Jun

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On January 24, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Ticketmaster. The hearing followed i...

Fri, 2 Jun

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This week, the White House agreed to restart student loan payments to broker the debt ceiling deal. ...

Wed, 31 May

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Last week, Tasha Adams watched her ex-husband, Stewart Rhodes, get sentenced to 18 years in prison ...

Fri, 26 May

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On Thursday May 25, founder of the Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison f...

Wed, 24 May

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On April 20, 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced that BuzzFeed would be closing down its news...

Fri, 19 May

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This week, the CEO of OpenAI testified at a senate hearing about the dangers of artificial intellige...

Wed, 17 May

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On Tuesday we entered the third week of one of the largest entertainment strikes in recent memory, t...

Fri, 12 May

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This week, E. Jean Carroll was awarded 5 million dollars in damages in a trial that found Donald J. ...

Wed, 10 May

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If you discovered this series through Apple podcasts, or because you heard that we won a Peabody Aw...

Tue, 9 May 2023 14:38:19 +0000

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If you discovered this series through Apple podcasts, or because you heard that we won a Peabody Aw...

Mon, 8 May

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If you discovered this series through Apple podcasts, or because you heard that we won a Peabody Aw...

Sun, 7 May

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If you discovered this series through Apple podcasts, or because you heard that we won a Peabody Aw...

Sat, 6 May

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If you discovered this series through Apple podcasts, or because you heard that we won a Peabody Aw...

Fri, 5 May

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Two decades have passed since George W. Bush gave his “Mission Accomplished” speech about the U....

Wed, 3 May

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On April 9, 2003, a US marine battalion rolled triumphantly into Firdos Square, in the center of Bag...

Fri, 28 Apr

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In late 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba started hearing a mysterious buzzing sound, followe...

Wed, 26 Apr

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The Redstone family controls Paramount Global, formerly known as ViacomCBS, Inc., — one of the big...

Fri, 21 Apr

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Fox News settled with Dominion Voting Systems for over 780 million dollars on Tuesday. On this week’...

Wed, 19 Apr

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Earlier this month, a Texas judge issued a contentious decision about a drug named Mifepristone, w...

Fri, 14 Apr

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For the first time since the Cold War, an American reporter has been charged with espionage in Russi...

Wed, 12 Apr

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Donald Trump is the first ever president to be charged with criminal activity. And leading up to...

Fri, 7 Apr

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Today, more than 37 million Americans live in poverty. The problem has been addressed countless time...

Wed, 5 Apr

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On Tuesday, April 4, former President Donald Trump was arrested and appeared in court for his arraig...

Fri, 31 Mar

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For the first time in our history, a former U.S. president has been indicted. On this week’s On th...

Wed, 29 Mar

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In 2022 HBO picked up nearly forty Emmy awards — many of which went to The White Lotus. That year...

Fri, 24 Mar

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Highly politicized, partisan companies like Salem Media Group have a hold on the airwaves — and th...

Wed, 22 Mar

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If you ask Democrats why the US invaded Iraq in 2003, many will say that President George W. Bush c...

Fri, 17 Mar

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How did the right get their vice grip of the airwaves, all the while arguing that they were being si...

Wed, 15 Mar

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Iconic hip hop group De La Soul's music is finally available on streaming platforms, just in time f...

Fri, 10 Mar

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In 2016, Christian talk radio host Eric Metaxas begrudgingly encouraged his listeners to vote for th...

Wed, 8 Mar

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In March 2021, when President Joe Biden announced the nomination of Lina Khan to be a commissioner ...

Fri, 3 Mar

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A billion dollar defamation lawsuit has given the public an unprecedented view into the inner workin...

Wed, 1 Mar

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Fox News is in the fight of its legal life right now. Dominion is suing Fox News for 1.6 billion do...

Fri, 24 Feb

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The Supreme Court heard two cases this week that could upend Silicon Valley. On this week’s On The...

Wed, 22 Feb

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This week we're airing an interview that Brooke did while on a fellowship at the American Academy in...

Fri, 17 Feb

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1. Julia Rock [@jul1arock], reporter at the The Lever, and Allison Fisher [@citizenfisher], dir...

Wed, 15 Feb

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YouTube is one of the biggest media companies in the world. In 2020, we uploaded 500 hours of fo...

Fri, 10 Feb

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane… no, it’s a spy balloon. On this week’s On the Media, how to gra...

Wed, 8 Feb

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Thirty-four years ago, the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwa calling fo...

Fri, 3 Feb

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On this week’s On the Media, what the data says about how boys and men are struggling today. Plus,...

Wed, 1 Feb

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Former OTM producer Alana Casanova-Burgess is back with season 2 of her critically acclaimed podcast...

Fri, 27 Jan

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If millions of Americans have access to classified documents, can we really call them secrets? On th...

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 03:00:00 +0000

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For decades, the Central Intelligence Agency has cultivated its appeal as an organization shrouded i...

Fri, 20 Jan

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Many of us are still cookin’ with gas, but should we? On this week’s On the Media, a look at why...

Wed, 18 Jan

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Human aspirations for technology are vast. One day, maybe we'll develop technologies that cure canc...

Fri, 13 Jan

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Schools across the country are considering whether to ban the new AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On this week’...

Wed, 11 Jan

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This week HBO is set to release its latest show, The Last Of Us, about two strangers, who end up on ...

Fri, 6 Jan

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The start of a new year is a time to look both forward and back. On this week’s On the Media, hear...

Wed, 4 Jan

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At the end of 2022, Congress passed legislation to ban TikTok from all government devices, citing da...

Fri, 30 Dec

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In October, a court ruled in favor of the Department of Justice and blocked the merging of two publi...

Wed, 28 Dec

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During this holiday season, you likely encountered public nativity scenes depicting the birth of Jes...

Fri, 23 Dec

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And just like that, 2022 is coming to a close. On this week's On the Media, a look back at our year ...

Wed, 21 Dec

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We covered a lot of ground in the series, so in this bonus episode we wanted to give space to some o...

Fri, 16 Dec

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This year, right-wing groups at home and abroad were animated by wistful recollections of the past. ...

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 18:13:00 +0000

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Highly politicized, partisan companies like Salem have a hold on the airwaves — and they don’t p...

Fri, 9 Dec

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A 2020 story about Hunter Biden's hacked laptop keeps finding its way back into the news cycle. On t...

Tue, 6 Dec 2022 21:01:00 +0000

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In the 1970s, talk radio was hitting its stride, with hosts and listeners from all political persuas...

Fri, 2 Dec

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An ancient scapegoat for society’s woes is back in the news. On this week’s On the Media, a deep...

Thu, 1 Dec 2022 03:00:00 +0000

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This week, we’re sharing a chat Brooke had with her longtime colleague Brian Lehrer for Interview ...

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:53:00 +0000

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How did the right get their vice grip of the airwaves, all the while arguing that they were being si...

Fri, 25 Nov

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Conspiracy theories and disinformation have found a home on right-wing talk radio, where falsehoods ...

Wed, 23 Nov

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In television's younger days, going live was extremely difficult, costly and rare. But in November o...

Mon, 21 Nov

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Episode 2: From Pulpit to Politics How did the little-known Salem Media Group come to have an outsi...

Fri, 18 Nov

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Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, there has been nothing short of crisis — leading to massive lay...

Wed, 16 Nov

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In the wake of the five alarm fire at Twitter, a small, quiet social media alternative has been quie...

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:49:00 +0000

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Episode 1: The True Believers In 2016, Christian talk radio host Eric Metaxas begrudgingly encourage...

Fri, 11 Nov

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Across the county, librarians are fighting to keep libraries open and books on the shelves. On this ...

Wed, 9 Nov

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Jess deCourcy Hinds is the solo librarian at the Bard High School, Early College library in Queens,...

Fri, 4 Nov

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As the midterms approach, conspiracy theories about election fraud are shaping some races. On this w...

Wed, 2 Nov

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When Jordan Peele’s horror film Get Out hit theaters in 2017, it became an unexpected blockbuster ...

Fri, 28 Oct

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With early midterm voting underway, Fox News has been increasing crime coverage to drive voters to...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:40:00 +0000

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An investigation by nonprofit newsroom The Markup found that four internet providers disproportion...

Fri, 21 Oct

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Early in the pandemic, weight was named a risk factor for severe covid-19. But what if the greater r...

Wed, 19 Oct

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What counts as media? For us, its any medium through which we express ourselves — whether from o...

Fri, 14 Oct

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A jury recently ordered Alex Jones to pay nearly one billion dollars to the families of the victims ...

Wed, 12 Oct

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Monday was Indigenous People’s Day, renamed from Columbus day to honor the lives and history lost ...

Fri, 7 Oct

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This week, two cases headed to the Supreme Court that could change the internet as we know it. On th...

Fri, 30 Sep

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Are the women-led protests in Iran powerful enough to force change when past attempts have failed? O...

Wed, 28 Sep

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John Waters is the writer and director of such cult classics like Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom, and ...

Fri, 23 Sep

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Adnan Syed, the subject of the hit podcast Serial, left prison this week after serving two decades f...

Wed, 21 Sep

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Today, when we encounter the medieval world it’s mostly a dark time. Un-enlightened by reason, bu...

Fri, 16 Sep

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The federal court is hearing a case that could change the publishing industry as we know it. On this...

Wed, 14 Sep

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This week, Brooke talks to Christo Grozev, lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, about how he un...

Fri, 9 Sep

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As the government continues its investigation into classified documents found at former President Do...

Wed, 7 Sep

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This week saw the conclusion of the campaign to shut down one of the internet’s most toxic forums,...

Fri, 2 Sep

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Six months into Russia’s invasion, Ukrainians are still fighting back on all fronts. On this week’...

Thu, 1 Sep 2022 12:32:00 +0000

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For most of the 20th century, during which time it was the control of a Moscow-based government for...

Fri, 26 Aug

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Six months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Putin has rallied the Russian population...

Wed, 24 Aug

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This week OTM shares the third and final episode of Hard, a series about Viagra from our colleagues...

Fri, 19 Aug

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When you hear the word “Neanderthal,” you probably picture a mindless, clumsy brute. It’s ofte...

Wed, 17 Aug

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This week OTM shares the second episode of the three-part series, Hard, produced by our WNYC collea...

Fri, 12 Aug

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An old threat has returned to classrooms across the country — and it’s made of pages and ink. On...

Wed, 10 Aug

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In 1998, when Viagra was approved by the FDA, it suddenly opened up new sexual possibilities for peo...

Fri, 5 Aug

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A group of climate scientists warn that the potential for humanity's mass extinction has been danger...

Thu, 4 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +0000

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This week’s podcast extra is about podcasts, but this story has its roots in the early days of ro...

Fri, 29 Jul

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Former president Donald Trump is trying to bury the January 6th committee’s findings, but his old ...

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:06:00 +0000

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It's Shark Week. This year's Discovery programs boast flashy titles like Stranger Sharks, Air Jaws, ...

Fri, 22 Jul

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Gas prices are coming down. Inflation is still going up. Jobs are strong, yet recession fears abound...

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 08:15:00 +0000

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This weekend marks five brutal months since Russia invaded Ukraine — with no end in sight. And in...

Fri, 15 Jul

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In 2014, the brutal killing of John and Joyce Sheridan, a prominent couple with personal ties to thr...

Wed, 13 Jul

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Earlier this year, the New Jersey Attorney General opened up an investigation into the killings of J...

Fri, 8 Jul

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Early in the pandemic, weight was named a risk factor for severe covid-19. But what if the greater r...

Wed, 6 Jul

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This fall, students in Hong Kong will learn a new version of history — one that erases the fact th...

Fri, 1 Jul

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The overturning of Roe v. Wade will remain the most discussed opinion of this Supreme Court term. Bu...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 07:15:00 +0000

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As the country reels from last Friday’s decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, pe...

Fri, 24 Jun

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This week, the Supreme Court officially struck down Roe v. Wade, overturning fifty years of legal pr...

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 20:10:00 +0000

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All across the country this month, people are celebrating queer and trans pride with parades, cooko...

Fri, 17 Jun

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In this week's January 6th committee hearings, a documentary selling election conspiracies was laugh...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 23:06:00 +0000

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Josh Owens was an InfoWars employee from 2013 to 2017. In an essay published on CNN.com this week,...

Fri, 10 Jun

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Gun control legislation appears doomed once again, even as Congress heard heartbreaking testimony fr...

Wed, 8 Jun

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Back in the before-times, when we used to go into the radio station every day, our office next-door...

Fri, 3 Jun

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This week, On the Media looks ahead to the January 6th committee hearings that will air live in prim...

Thu, 2 Jun 2022 15:37:00 +0000

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This Wednesday afternoon, in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia, a jury awarded Johnny Depp $1...

Fri, 27 May

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As we trudge through our third year of the pandemic, what is the state of our immunity to COVID? On ...

Wed, 25 May

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Last week’s show was titled “Again and Again” and it led with an essay about the then latest d...

Fri, 20 May

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In the wake of yet another racist mass shooting, this time in Buffalo, New York, media outlets are...

Wed, 18 May

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This week we're airing an interview that Brooke did while on a fellowship at the American Academy in...

Fri, 13 May

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With Roe v Wade under threat, some politicians and media outlets are trying to turn the national con...

Thu, 12 May 2022 17:23:00 +0000

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This week, we take a look at the latest celebrity trial to ensnare the national attention. Johnny De...

Fri, 6 May

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Across news outlets, crime reporting often relies on police sources and incomplete data. On this wee...

Wed, 4 May

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This week, OTM presents a story from our colleagues at The Experiment. There’s a common story abou...

Fri, 29 Apr

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After news broke that Elon Musk is likely to purchase Twitter later this year, the billionaire began...

Wed, 27 Apr

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On this week's podcast extra we present episode 1 of a new series from our colleague, Nancy Solomon....

Fri, 22 Apr

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Checking in on the so-called Great Resignation. On this week’s On The Media, hear why the trend is...

Wed, 20 Apr

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International Workers' Day is celebrated with rallies and protests all over the world on May 1, but ...

Fri, 15 Apr

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Cassette tapes mostly gather dust these days. But back in their heyday, they fundamentally changed h...

Wed, 13 Apr

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Few clichés are as well-worn, and grounded in reality, as the dread many Americans feel towards do...

Fri, 8 Apr

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Congress is threatening to cut billions in COVID aid even as a new variant emerges. On this week’s...

Wed, 6 Apr

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Hey waddayaknow? There are more variants in the news. Back when Omicron was first making headlines a...

Fri, 1 Apr

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More than a month into Putin’s invasion, Ukrainian resistance has proved mightier than the Russian...

Wed, 30 Mar

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A new poll this week from AP-NORC found that when asked, close to half of Americans say they are ve...

Fri, 25 Mar

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This week’s confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson were fille...

Wed, 23 Mar

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The Supreme Court is an opaque and difficult to understand institution. Luckily, drawing on the ...

Fri, 18 Mar

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As the horrific violence in Ukraine escalates, the global far-right is justifying Russia’s invasio...

Wed, 16 Mar

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Russia's Memorial International maintained an archive whose purpose was to amass and preserve the...

Fri, 11 Mar

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The refugee crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may be the fastest-growing displacement...

Wed, 9 Mar

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This is a piece we first ran last September. It's reported by OTM producer Molly Schwartz who until...

Fri, 4 Mar

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Footage captured and shared by Ukrainian civilians is helping the world see through the fog of war. ...

Fri, 25 Feb

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This week, OTM presents stories from Puerto Rico as told in a podcast series called "La Brega," ...

Wed, 23 Feb

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This week, OTM presents the second installment of a new series by our colleagues at The Experiment....

Fri, 18 Feb

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Mainstream journalists keep falling for crypto scams that can end up costing their audiences a fortu...

Wed, 16 Feb

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On this week's  podcast we’re bringing you a story from our colleagues at The Experiment. It’s ...

Fri, 11 Feb

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Joe Rogan’s fans, critics, and everyone in between have spent weeks hearing his name plastered on ...

Wed, 9 Feb

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Todd Gitlin - writer, academic, media analyst, sociologist and lifelong activist died on February 5t...

Fri, 4 Feb

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An old threat has returned to classrooms across the country — and it’s made of pages and ink. On...

Wed, 2 Feb

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In 1951, Grove Press was a tiny, almost-defunct independent publisher, with just three titles in its...

Fri, 28 Jan

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When you hear the word “Neanderthal,” you probably picture a mindless, clumsy brute. It’s ofte...

Wed, 26 Jan

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Earlier this month, Ronna McDaniel, Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, wrote a letter ...

Fri, 21 Jan

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It’s been over a year since Donald Trump was defeated fair and square in the 2020 election, but po...

Wed, 19 Jan

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This week we are airing another episode from the show "La Brega"a podcast about life in Puerto Rico ...

Fri, 14 Jan

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Since the insurrection on January 6, warnings of a second American Civil War have been sounded. This...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:47:00 +0000

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Revisiting the crucial case law "NYT v Sullivan."On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Su...

Fri, 7 Jan

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It’s been one year since the armed insurrection at the Capitol, what do we know now about how it h...

Wed, 5 Jan

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In 2013, 26-year-old software developer and political activist Aaron Swartz died by suicide. He h...

Fri, 31 Dec

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Should we cancel the word “cancel”? On this week’s On the Media, find out who benefits from ...

Wed, 29 Dec

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Basketball Hall of Famer Walt "Clyde" Frazier made a successful transition from NBA star to sports b...

Fri, 24 Dec

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On this week’s On the Media, a look at the journalists and newspapers we lost in 2021, and hopes f...

Wed, 22 Dec

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Merry Christmas, to those who celebrate! To those who don't (and, aw heck, to those who do too) we o...

Fri, 17 Dec

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Text messages obtained by the January 6 commission revealed the panic of Fox News hosts — even as ...

Wed, 15 Dec

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Write a great book and you're a genius. Turn a book into a great film and you're a visionary. Turn ...

Fri, 10 Dec

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Amid the so-called Great Resignation, nearly 39 million Americans have left their jobs. On this week...

Tue, 7 Dec 2021 13:40:00 +0000

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Tonight at 7pm ET, join Brooke, the OTM staff, and other listeners from around the country for our ...

Fri, 3 Dec

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By now, the new coronavirus variant has been detected in dozens of countries – including the U.S. ...

Wed, 1 Dec

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This week is Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day festival of lights. With its emphasis on present-giving...

Fri, 26 Nov

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Cassette tapes mostly gather dust these days. But back in their heyday, they fundamentally changed h...

Wed, 24 Nov

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Last year at this time, 9 months into the pandemic, so many of us stayed separated from one another,...

Fri, 19 Nov

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Politicians and pundits on the right are eager to pin rising rates of inflation on President Biden —...

Wed, 17 Nov

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The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland concluded last weekend—the 26th “Conference of Part...

Fri, 12 Nov

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Twenty months since the start of the pandemic, economic recovery has been uneven at best. This week,...

Wed, 10 Nov

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The satire site The Babylon Bee, a conservative Christian answer to The Onion, stirred controver...

Fri, 5 Nov

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For decades, Silicon Valley leaders have been borrowing ideas from science fiction — from the meta...

Wed, 3 Nov

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700,000. That’s the latest COVID death count to dominate a headline in the United States. Over the...

Fri, 29 Oct

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This week, On the Media takes a deep dive into the "No Compromise" gun rights movement. Its members ...

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:23:00 +0000

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True crime is incredibly popular. Whether it's books, movies, television shows, or podcasts, stori...

Fri, 22 Oct

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From boosters to breakthrough infections, pandemic vocabulary is still all over the news. On this we...

Wed, 20 Oct

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Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, Joint Chiefs chairman, and omnipresence in American forei...

Fri, 15 Oct

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Have you been wondering exactly what it means to Build Back Better? On this week’s On the Media, h...

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:26:00 +0000

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To watch the rise of viral content is always an interesting exercise. From "Charlie bit my finger" t...

Fri, 8 Oct

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From a six hour service outage to a senate whistleblower hearing, the PR disasters keep mounting for...

Wed, 6 Oct

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While Democrats fight amongst themselves over getting their legislative agenda passed, Senate majori...

Fri, 1 Oct

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Facebook and Instagram are harming young users, according to leaked research discussed in a Senate h...

Wed, 29 Sep

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It was 13 years ago this month when news broke that the Wall Street investment firm Lehman Brothers ...

Fri, 24 Sep

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By now, we’re familiar with voter suppression tactics, from long voting lines to voter ID laws. On...

Wed, 22 Sep

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In their new book "Peril," Bob Woodward and Robert Costa released a previously unpublished memo by a...

Fri, 17 Sep

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Throughout the pandemic, religious rights advocates have protested some public health measures like...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 00:50:00 +0000

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In 2014, Fortune magazine ran a cover story featuring Elizabeth Holmes: a blonde woman wearing a b...

Fri, 10 Sep

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Twenty years after the Twin Towers came down, we’re still wrestling over how to make sense of what...

Wed, 8 Sep

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By way of introduction to the person who will be sitting in for Brooke for a few weeks, we are revis...

Fri, 3 Sep

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A debate has been raging among the librarians of the world, and it's all about order. The Dewey Dec...

Wed, 1 Sep

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Algorithms are everywhere, making crucial decisions at almost every juncture of our lives. But, whil...

Fri, 27 Aug

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“The right to throw a punch ends at the tip of someone’s nose.” It’s the idea that underlies...

Wed, 25 Aug

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Nearly six decades ago, the Supreme Court made a decision in the case New York Times v. Sullivan t...

Fri, 20 Aug

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Cries to free Britney Spears from her conservatorship this summer have prompted a reevaluation of h...

Wed, 18 Aug

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"Shrill" popped back up in the national lexicon in the coverage of Hillary Clinton's 2016 president...

Fri, 13 Aug

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Last week, the federal government, in a limited way, extended the eviction moratorium in place since...

Wed, 11 Aug

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In September 1966, Gene Roddenberry dispatched the crew of the Starship Enterprise on its maiden voy...

Fri, 6 Aug

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With Delta Variant cases surging, public health officials are pleading with Americans to get vaccina...

Wed, 4 Aug

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In the wake of the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse on July 7th, international me...

Fri, 30 Jul

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This week, we consider whether information should ever be off-limits to journalists. It’s a thor...

Fri, 23 Jul

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A look at how journalism selectively judges objectivity and bias… Which produces better reporting:...

Wed, 21 Jul

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In 2015, a tragedy gripped Romanian consciousness when a fire at a popular club in the country's ca...

Fri, 16 Jul

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As numbers of the vaccinated rise, theaters around the country are once again opening. In celebratio...

Wed, 14 Jul

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Hilma af Klint was a Swedish painter born in 1862 who painted big, bold canvases suffused with ric...

Fri, 9 Jul

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Nearly a quarter of American adults reported drinking more at home to cope with their pandemic blues...

Wed, 7 Jul

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There are many Americas. Nowadays they barely speak to each other. But during the most perilous year...

Fri, 2 Jul

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This week marks six months since January 6th, the day a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol. Over ...

Wed, 30 Jun

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It's been noted that Trump’s Big Lie and the violence it produced is reminiscent of the Lost Cause...

Fri, 25 Jun

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June 28th marks the anniversary of a mass shooting that took place inside a newsroom in Annapolis, M...

Wed, 23 Jun

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In the 1800s, New Bedford, Massachusetts was the world’s “center of whaling.” More than half o...

Fri, 18 Jun

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New reports show that the Trump Department of Justice spied on reporters. But that’s just a small ...

Wed, 16 Jun

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Over the last couple of weeks we’ve taken on some of the battles in the ongoing culture war. The g...

Fri, 11 Jun

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Trump may be out of office, but the GOP's campaign to limit voting rights, free speech, and reprodu...

Wed, 9 Jun

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Record numbers of journalists formed unions over the last few years, surpassing data even from the s...

Fri, 4 Jun

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After a young Associated Press journalist lost her job last month following online attacks, On the M...

Wed, 2 Jun

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On May 31, 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District was a thriving Black residential and busines...

Fri, 28 May

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COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are falling and the number of the vaccinated continue to rise, but the p...

Wed, 26 May

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We live in a time of sensory overload and overwhelm. A global pandemic, an ongoing climate catastro...

Fri, 21 May

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A year and a half into the pandemic, we still don’t know how it began. This week, a look at how in...

Fri, 14 May

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The old US Steel building in Pittsburgh, PA is a black monolith, symbol and fortress of industrial p...

Thu, 13 May 2021 00:48:00 +0000

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Last Friday, the Department of Labor released its monthly jobs report, and the numbers were...disapp...

Fri, 7 May

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There’s a long history of campaigns to “save the children,” whether they need saving or not. T...

Wed, 5 May

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Last Friday, remains of at least one victim of the infamous 1985 MOVE bombing were turned over to a ...

Fri, 30 Apr

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This week we take a close look at how the words we choose can unknowingly condemn people caught up i...

Wed, 28 Apr

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International Workers' Day is celebrated with rallies and protests all over the world on May 1, but ...

Fri, 23 Apr

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A jury has found Derek Chauvin guilty in the case that sparked a historic wave of protests last summ...

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:17:51 +0000

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Evidence-based medicine requires just that: evidence. Access to the collective pool of knowledge pr...

Fri, 16 Apr

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From the Johnson & Johnson pause to talk of “break-through cases” among the already-vaccinated,...

Wed, 14 Apr

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The past year most of us were awash in a news cycle driven by the pandemic. Daily we grappled with i...

Fri, 9 Apr

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With Congress set to consider bills next week that could set the future of Puerto Rican self-determi...

Wed, 7 Apr

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For over four years, Reveal, an award-winning program from the Center for Investigative Reporting...

Tue, 6 Apr 2021 03:00:00 +0000

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La Brega is a seven-part podcast series hosted by OTM producer/reporter Alana Casanova-Burgess. Th...

Fri, 2 Apr

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The trial of the former police officer charged in the death of George Floyd has been broadcasting li...

Wed, 31 Mar

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Before the Vietnam War there was a law that banned women from reporting on the frontlines of any wa...

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 03:00:00 +0000

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La Brega is a seven-part podcast series hosted by OTM producer/reporter Alana Casanova-Burgess. Th...

Fri, 26 Mar

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A so-called surge of migrants at the southern border has caught the attention of immigration reform ...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:03:00 +0000

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In 2015, a tragedy gripped Romanian consciousness when a fire at a popular club in the country's ca...

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:00:00 +0000

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La Brega is a seven-part podcast series hosted by OTM producer/reporter Alana Casanova-Burgess. Th...

Fri, 19 Mar

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Police statements about the Atlanta shooter’s motives defined early media reports and earned swift...

Wed, 17 Mar

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The movement surrounding the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act introduced some ubiquit...

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 03:00:00 +0000

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La Brega is a seven-part podcast series hosted by OTM producer/reporter Alana Casanova-Burgess. Th...

Fri, 12 Mar

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As Biden-era climate policy begins to take shape, many corporations assure the public that they’re...

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:15:00 +0000

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It's been a staple of local, nightly news for decades: while an anchor recites a vivid crime report,...

Tue, 9 Mar 2021 03:00:00 +0000

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La Brega is a seven-part podcast series hosted by OTM producer/reporter Alana Casanova-Burgess. The...

Fri, 5 Mar

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The Johnson and Johnson vaccine was approved this week, expanding the nation’s supply and moving u...

Wed, 3 Mar

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During the pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo transformed into a fully fledged TV star — pro...

Fri, 26 Feb

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This week, OTM presents stories from a new series hosted by our own Alana Casanova-Burgess, called...

Wed, 24 Feb

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With the news this week that the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for Manhattan District Attorney Cy ...

Fri, 19 Feb

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In a reversal of the past four years, President Biden has vowed to take on the violent threat posed ...

Wed, 17 Feb

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What more can we say: El Rushbo is dead. He died Wednesday after a months-long bout of lung cancer,...

Fri, 12 Feb

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It’s been a week of legal battles, from Donald Trump’s second impeachment to Britney Spears’s ...

Wed, 10 Feb

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Few clichés are as well-worn, and grounded in reality, as the dread many Americans feel towards do...

Fri, 5 Feb

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Fox News has been stoking rage on the right for decades. As the former president faces an impeachmen...

Thu, 4 Feb 2021 06:00:00 +0000

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This week, OTM presents the first episode of a new weekly show hosted by our WNYC colleague Julia Lo...

Fri, 29 Jan

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On this week’s show, we look at what happens when scientists try to save the public...from itself....

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:18:00 +0000

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GameStop is a corporation that sells digital cartridges containing video games, and also video game ...

Fri, 22 Jan

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On this week’s show, we take a deep breath. Plus, journalists reflect on the deep damage done to o...

Wed, 20 Jan

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This story was co-published with ProPublica. A birth certificate, a bar receipt, a newspaper ad, a...

Fri, 15 Jan

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Evidence shows that insurrectionists used the walkie-talkie app Zello to help organize the riot at ...

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 22:23:00 +0000

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Over the past 10 months, debates have raged over how to keep the coronavirus in check. What to open?...

Fri, 8 Jan

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On this week’s On The Media, journalists struggle to find the words to describe what happened at t...

Fri, 1 Jan

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With vaccinations underway, we’re edging closer and closer to the end of the pandemic. This week, ...

Wed, 30 Dec

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We spend our lives bound to a clock and calendar that tell us what to do and what to expect. But now...

Fri, 25 Dec

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The new year approaches, marking an end to a truly unexpected trip around the sun. This week, On the...

Wed, 23 Dec

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In a time where monuments are being toppled, institutions and icons reconsidered, we turn to a port...

Fri, 18 Dec

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Facebook has already been accused of spreading lies and polarizing society. Now, the federal governm...

Wed, 16 Dec

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 Last year, the investigative podcast Reveal documented an extraordinary number of workplace injuri...

Fri, 11 Dec

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Scientists and policymakers are hopeful about a slate of vaccines, but it may be a long time before ...

Wed, 9 Dec

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David Roberts wrote for Vox.com in July, about the mental phenomenon of “shifting baselines,” ...

Fri, 4 Dec

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With the pandemic’s second wave in full-swing, two vaccine makers are seeking emergency use author...

Thu, 3 Dec 2020 13:32:00 +0000

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On Wednesday morning, former president Barack Obama appeared on “Snap Original Good Luck America,”...

Fri, 27 Nov

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With the an apparent second wave of COVID-19 in full force, the media are sounding the alarm on a d...

Wed, 25 Nov

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Communicable disease has haunted humanity for all of history. As such, the responses to coronavirus ...

Mon, 23 Nov

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EXTENDED VERSION (includes content we had to leave on the cutting room floor to make the interview...

Fri, 20 Nov

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As the pandemic spreads, officials are imposing new public health policies. On this week’s On the ...

Wed, 18 Nov

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Back in February we spoke to Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer Laurie Garrett, author of Th...

Fri, 13 Nov

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With President Trump refusing to accept the results of the election, analysts are asking if he’s t...

Wed, 11 Nov

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Pfizer announced Monday that its coronavirus vaccine demonstrated more than 90% effectiveness and no...

Fri, 6 Nov

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With Joe Biden approaching victory, Donald Trump and his political allies flooded the internet with ...

Fri, 6 Nov

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For election night 2020, while cable news had white boards and talking heads, the OTM crew hosted ...

Fri, 30 Oct

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The past few decades have been a time of deep partisan animosity. On this week’s On The Media, how...

Wed, 28 Oct

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Famed conjurer, illusionist -- and even more famously exposer of supernatural fraud --  James Randi...

Fri, 23 Oct

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With the election underway, both camps are pushing their “get out the vote” messages. This week,...

Wed, 21 Oct

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For this week's podcast extra, we're once more highlighting the work of our colleague Jim O'Grady an...

Fri, 16 Oct

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Premonitions of Election Day violence abound, especially with the growing visibility of extremist mi...

Wed, 14 Oct

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Earlier this month, Stanford University announced it would rename Jordan Hall, named for David Star...

Fri, 9 Oct

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GOP Senator Mike Lee tweeted this week that “we are not a democracy.” On this week’s On the Me...

Thu, 8 Oct 2020 00:26:00 +0000

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The Trump administration issued executive orders last month that ban federal workers from participat...

Fri, 2 Oct

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President Trump has once more tried to cast himself as an ally of the Christian right — this time,...

Thu, 1 Oct 2020 03:34:00 +0000

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At the debate between Joe Biden and President Trump in Cleveland this Tuesday, moderator Chris Walla...

Wed, 30 Sep

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Federal investigations seldom begin with an uproar. Internal rules keep fledgling probes on the down...

Fri, 25 Sep

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Conspiracy theories are spreading like wildfire on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. This week, On the...

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:33:00 +0000

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As Republicans rush to nominate a judge to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat, Amy Coney Barre...

Fri, 18 Sep

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As wildfires blaze across the United States, some right-wing politicians and pundits are blaming rac...

Wed, 16 Sep

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Earlier this year we aired a profile of Joe Rogan. The unbelievably popular podcast host was in the ...

Fri, 11 Sep

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Voters looking for a quick resolution this November might have to wait longer than usual to learn wh...

Wed, 9 Sep

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Every now and then we like to feature the work of our colleagues here at our producing station, WNYC...

Fri, 4 Sep

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Armed right-wingers are stoking violence in cities across the country. On this week’s On the Media...

Wed, 2 Sep

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As the president continues his verbal assault on America's urban centers, presenting nightmare scen...

Fri, 28 Aug

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At the Republican National Convention, Trump advisor Larry Kudlow said the pandemic “was awful.”...

Wed, 26 Aug

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On Saturday, more than 200 cities from Spokane to Scranton saw modest rallies for a cause so pure, s...

Fri, 21 Aug

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Recently, the president threatened the post office — and with it, the November elections. On this ...

Wed, 19 Aug

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook has taken a public stance against bogus health claims that di...

Fri, 14 Aug

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Science fiction has always been an outlet for our greatest anxieties. This week, we delve into how t...

Wed, 12 Aug

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In this episode (which first aired in January), Brooke talks to journalist and devoted amateur histo...

Fri, 7 Aug

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As we approach November’s contentious presidential election, what lessons can we learn from divid...

Wed, 5 Aug

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There’s a standard way the conversation on "cancel culture" goes: on the one side, male comedians ...

Fri, 31 Jul

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Despite defiance from police departments and police unions, efforts to limit police secrecy have not...

Wed, 29 Jul

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In this week's pod extra, we bring you an episode from Trump, Inc., a podcast from our friends at W...

Fri, 24 Jul

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The White House is sending troops into cities with the stated goal of protecting monuments. On this ...

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:27:00 +0000

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It’s yet another day in Trump-era America. You know what that means: Another Lincoln Project ad go...

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 17:58:00 +0000

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As climate catastrophe marches apace and the nation's public health infrastructure continues to unr...

Wed, 15 Jul

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Fox Primetime host Tucker Carlson has already had quite the July. On the plus side, the latest ratin...

Fri, 10 Jul

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Home is in your heart and in your head, but mostly home is on land — acreage parceled out, clawed ...

Wed, 8 Jul

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The Statue of Liberty is nearly 140 years old, but she's enjoying renewed relevance in the Trump er...

Fri, 3 Jul

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After World War II, Germany and the Allied powers took pains to make sure that its citizens would ne...

Wed, 1 Jul

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For much of the past month, a new addition has joined the audioscape of cities across the country: f...

Fri, 26 Jun

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In recent weeks, the Trump administration has removed multiple people from key watchdog roles. On th...

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 03:00:00 +0000

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When the US entered the early stages of the pandemic, federal and municipal leaders maintained that ...

Fri, 19 Jun

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We visualize the coronavirus pandemic as coming in waves, but the national picture of new cases show...

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 21:57:00 +0000

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It began with the President’s notorious bible photo-op, preceded by a military crackdown north of ...

Wed, 17 Jun

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There’s this old internet fable about a duck who liked milkshakes. Everyone loved the Milkshake Du...

Fri, 12 Jun

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As public opinion catches up to the Black Lives Matter movement, some activists are calling to “de...

Wed, 10 Jun

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Two years ago, Vox's David Roberts wrote a piece arguing that The New York Times opinion section i...

Fri, 5 Jun

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In the midst of a historic week of protests, the national conversation about police is quickly trans...

Wed, 3 Jun

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On Monday, President Trump stood outside St. John's Episcopal Church, which had caught fire the day...

Fri, 29 May

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Protestors are expressing outrage over police brutality while the president is threatening violence...

Wed, 27 May

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As an On the Media listener, you follow the news - probably more so during this pandemic. And you wi...

Fri, 22 May

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As the Covid-19 death toll continues to climb, many Americans are struggling to mourn in the middle ...

Wed, 20 May

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"Mrs. America," now streaming on Hulu, depicts the near-passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in th...

Fri, 15 May

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In this episode, a tale of two cities. It turns out there’s a literal playbook for communications...

Wed, 13 May

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The pandemic has forced even the most technophobic online. After refusing for years, the Supreme Co...

Fri, 8 May

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The news breaking every day and every minute makes it possible to miss the local news drought advanc...

Tue, 5 May 2020 05:35:00 +0000

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Over the past few weeks, the public has been introduced — by way of Gilead Science, and a leaked...

Fri, 1 May

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Pressure is mounting for journalists to cover sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden. This w...

Wed, 29 Apr

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Want to do your part in this pandemic? Why don't you try becoming a Couch Potatotriot, someone who s...

Fri, 24 Apr

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Over the past two months, packed cities have been repeatedly blamed for the rapid spread of coronavi...

Wed, 22 Apr

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To mark the 50th Earth Day, we’re re-airing a piece from 2017. In his proposed 2021 fiscal year bu...

Fri, 17 Apr

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As the coronavirus continues to devastate communities across the globe, the Trump administration an...

Wed, 15 Apr

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Spring is peak holy season in the United States: Easter and Passover are underway and Ramadan starts...

Fri, 10 Apr

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As the number of COVID cases rises, why are there still so many unknowns about its reach? This week,...

Thu, 9 Apr 2020 00:01:00 +0000

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President Trump has continued to push the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential treat...

Fri, 3 Apr

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Many elected officials have declared metaphorical war against the coronavirus. On this week’s show...

Thu, 2 Apr 2020 03:10:00 +0000

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Since many of us have retreated to our homes in the past month, we’ve been connected to each othe...

Fri, 27 Mar

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Elected officials offer a flood of facts and spin in daily coronavirus briefings. On this week’s O...

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 01:58:00 +0000

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Last week, roughly 400 Israelis got an alert on their cell phone: “You must immediately go into i...

Fri, 20 Mar

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As a global pandemic threatens to upend life as we know it, the future is becoming increasingly dif...

Wed, 18 Mar

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From Miami to Massachusetts, from San Francisco to Pittsburgh to New York, housing courts are closin...

Fri, 13 Mar

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The World Health Organization has officially declared the spread of COVID-19 a global pandemic. On...

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 21:25:00 +0000

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The COVID-19 pandemic has expanded our vocabulary with terms like “social distancing” and “sel...

Wed, 11 Mar

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In advance of yesterday’s primaries, we saw some electoral anxieties of a slightly new variety: wo...

Fri, 6 Mar

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The press called out President Trump after he dismissed an alarming coronavirus statistic on – quo...

Wed, 4 Mar

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As the global death toll from novel coronavirus continues to increase, the American media are look...

Fri, 28 Feb

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As coronavirus spreads, the Center for Disease Control is warning Americans to take urgent precautio...

Wed, 26 Feb

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On Saturday, what most pollsters, politicos, and Bernie Sanders campaign organizers had been saying ...

Fri, 21 Feb

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The showdown for the Democratic nomination continues, and the gloves have come off. This week, On th...

Wed, 19 Feb

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No discussion of money and politics is complete without a tip of the hat to Citizens United, the lan...

Fri, 14 Feb

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Attorney General Bill Barr appeared to spar with Donald Trump in the latest chapter of the Roger Sto...

Wed, 12 Feb

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Elbert Lester has lived his full 94 years in Quitman County, Mississippi, on land he and his family ...

Fri, 7 Feb

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The sloppy roll-out of Iowa results prompted disinformation and confusion over the mechanics of the ...

Thu, 6 Feb 2020 03:00:00 +0000

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A lot was reported about Tuesday night's State of the Union address. President Trump's characteristi...

Fri, 31 Jan

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As the coronavirus continues to spread, the World Health Organization has declared a state of emerge...

Wed, 29 Jan

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Our colleagues at "Here's the Thing" produced a great episode this week that we think you'll enjoy: ...

Fri, 24 Jan

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A gathering of thousands of armed protesters in Virginia last weekend prompted fears of mass violenc...

Wed, 22 Jan

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The Brazilian federal government on Tuesday revealed charges of cybercrimes against Pulitzer Prize–...

Fri, 17 Jan

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A pre-debate news drop from CNN threatened the relative peace between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth W...

Wed, 15 Jan

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For years, climate change experts have said that hotter and drier summers would exacerbate the threa...

Fri, 10 Jan

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After the US military assassinated an Iranian military general, war propaganda kicked into overdriv...

Wed, 8 Jan

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In New York this week, jury selection began in the trial of former Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein....

Fri, 3 Jan

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As prison populations soar, advocates on both side of the spectrum agree that the law-and-order app...

Wed, 1 Jan

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Happy New Year! In this pod extra, we're celebrating what might be your first hangover of 2020 — w...

Fri, 27 Dec

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2019 started on a note of fakery, as we made sense of the conspiracies and simulacra that distort ou...

Wed, 25 Dec

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Today is Christmas, but it's also Hanukkah — the Jewish festival of lights. With its emphasis on...

Fri, 20 Dec

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For only the third time in U.S. history, the American press is covering a presidential impeachment. ...

Wed, 18 Dec

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Last week, India’s ruling party (the BJP) passed the Citizenship Amendment Act. The legislation gr...

Fri, 13 Dec

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A majority of Americans polled by CSPAN last year couldn't name a Supreme Court case. Of those who c...

Wed, 11 Dec

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On Monday, the Washington Post released the fruits of a three-year investigative effort: the "Afghan...

Fri, 6 Dec

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As House leaders begin drafting articles of impeachment, examples from the Nixon and Clinton eras ab...

Wed, 4 Dec

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If solidarity and the recognition of mutual self-interest are the keys to moving past our fractious ...

Fri, 29 Nov

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With the US deep in questions of impeachment, what lessons can we learn from divided societies abroa...

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 06:00:00 +0000

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As part of a month-long campaign called the Purple Project for Democracy, (a strictly non-partisan, ...

Mon, 25 Nov

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As part of a month-long campaign called the Purple Project for Democracy, OTM is using its podcast f...

Sun, 24 Nov

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As part of a month-long campaign called the Purple Project for Democracy, (a strictly non-partisan, ...

Sat, 23 Nov

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As part of a month-long campaign called the Purple Project for Democracy, (a strictly non-partisan, ...

Fri, 22 Nov

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In hearings this week, House Democrats sought to highlight an emerging set of facts concerning the P...

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:40:00 +0000

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What counts as media? For us, its any medium through which we express ourselves — whether from o...

Fri, 15 Nov

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Millions tuned into impeachment hearings this week — the first two of five already scheduled. On t...

Wed, 13 Nov

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You really have a feeling that here is a building that looks fantastically beautiful, and it’s go...

Fri, 8 Nov

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President Trump’s concerns about corruption in Ukraine began, in part, with a series of articles i...

Wed, 6 Nov

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As Americans battle for control of the future of the United States, it seems that we're always goin...

Fri, 1 Nov

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As wildfires tear through California, our decades-old infrastructure comes back to bite us. On this ...

Wed, 30 Oct

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This week on the OTM pod we feature another episode from Trump Inc.  Read more about who makes mon...

Fri, 25 Oct

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There’s a growing movement on the left and right for prison reform. On this week’s On the Media,...

Wed, 23 Oct

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This week's OTM pod extra is another episode from the new podcast hosted by WNYC's Brian Lehrer:  W...

Fri, 18 Oct

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In covering President Trump’s decision to stop protecting Kurdish fighters in Syria, press reports...

Wed, 16 Oct

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The pace of impeachment-related revelations is breathtaking, and it isn't slowing yet. With each da...

Fri, 11 Oct

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“The right to throw a punch ends at the tip of someone’s nose.” It’s the idea that underlies...

Wed, 9 Oct

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This coming Monday, some states and cities will celebrate Indigenous People’s Day, renamed from Co...

Fri, 4 Oct

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The talk from the Trump team is becoming increasingly hard to follow. This week, On the Media takes ...

Wed, 2 Oct

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Ever present in the Snowden and Manning era, the word "whistleblower" is again dominating the airwav...

Fri, 27 Sep

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The impeachment inquiry into President Trump is tangled up in Ukrainian politics, but few Washington...

Wed, 25 Sep

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It's been two years since the brutal and bloody 22-year reign of Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh ended a...

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:07:00 +0000

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Roosevelt’s New Deal remade American society, and now climate activists are pushing for a Green Ne...

Wed, 18 Sep

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This week we are featuring a brand new episode from our friends at Trump Inc, a podcast produced her...

Fri, 13 Sep

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Good riddance, John Bolton! By dismissing his third National Security Advisor, President Trump promp...

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:59:18 +0000

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This weekend in a series of tweets, President Trump both disclosed and scrapped secret talks with th...

Fri, 6 Sep

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As Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas, Democratic presidential candidates promised climate acti...

Wed, 4 Sep

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On Saturday, Leslie Gelb died at the age of 82. Gelb was a Senate aide in his 20s, a New York Times ...

Fri, 30 Aug

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The message from Silicon Valley seems to be that self-driving cars are the way of the future. This w...

Wed, 28 Aug

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Silicon Valley’s so-called “millionaire maker” is a behavioral scientist who foresaw the power...

Fri, 23 Aug

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In a special hour this week, On the Media examines the history of US imperialism — and why the fam...

Wed, 21 Aug

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Ted Kaczynski had been a boy genius. Then he became the Unabomber. After years of searching for him,...

Fri, 16 Aug

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The Indian government has revoked autonomy for the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir. This week, a c...

Wed, 14 Aug

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Infinite scrolling. Push notifications. Autoplay. Our devices and apps were designed to keep us enga...

Fri, 9 Aug

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The pathways and origins of white nationalist thought were a matter of deadly importance in coverage...

Tue, 6 Aug 2019 19:44:00 +0000

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When events like the shooting in El Paso happen, the elements may indeed be obvious: Guns. Sociopath...

Fri, 2 Aug

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Harassment and bullying are plaguing our online lives, but social media companies seem fresh out of ...

Wed, 31 Jul

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Last week on the show, we examined the power of the prosecutor in our justice system, and how voters...

Fri, 26 Jul

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It was the week of the prosecutor, with Special Counsel Robert Mueller grabbing most of the attentio...

Wed, 24 Jul

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Earlier this month, DC Comics announced that MAD Magazine will mostly stop doing what it’s done fo...

Fri, 19 Jul

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Puerto Ricans packed the streets night after night this week to call for Governor Ricardo Rosselló’...

Wed, 17 Jul

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On this show, we’ve often observed that what happens online rarely stays online. In the age of Piz...

Fri, 12 Jul

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Migrants in detention centers, another assault allegation against the President, and the start to a ...

Wed, 10 Jul

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Julie Brown of the Miami Herald conceived, reported, and wrote one of the most explosive criminal ju...

Fri, 5 Jul

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Ten autumns ago came two watershed moments in the history of money. In September 2008, the bankruptc...

Wed, 3 Jul

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There are many Americas. Nowadays they barely speak to each other. But during the most perilous year...

Fri, 28 Jun

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We have an eviction crisis, which is really just one part of a broader housing affordability crisis....

Fri, 21 Jun

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This is episode three in our series, “The Scarlet E: Unmasking America’s Eviction Crisis.” It’...

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:11:34 +0000

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June marks LGBTQ Pride month, and fifty years since the Stonewall riots. In the past five decades, t...

Mon, 17 Jun

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Heshmat Alavi, an Iranian commentator, has been portrayed as a courageous dissident with a broad con...

Fri, 14 Jun

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President Trump claims to have struck a deal with Mexico to settle a dispute of his own making. On t...

Wed, 12 Jun

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The first episode of the TV show "Cops" aired thirty years ago, and in the ensuing decades it's beco...

Thu, 6 Jun 2019 17:23:00 +0000

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Millions of rent-burdened Americans face eviction filings and proceedings every year. On this week’...

Wed, 5 Jun

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This week, the US House Antitrust subcommittee announced a probe into the mainly-unchecked power of ...

Fri, 31 May

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The Trump administration has ordered federal agencies to stop publishing worst-case scenario project...

Wed, 29 May

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Tornadoes ripped across multiple states on Tuesday, killing at least one person. It was the twelfth ...

Fri, 24 May

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Controversy erupted over news that President Trump may grant more pardons for alleged war criminal E...

Thu, 23 May 2019 02:00:00 +0000

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When former Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes penned a New York Times op-ed calling for the breakup ...

Fri, 17 May

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A controversial bill in Alabama is the latest in a wave of different abortion bans sweeping the coun...

Tue, 14 May 2019 13:45:46 +0000

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This week, we want to bring you a terrific new episode of Death, Sex and Money, another WNYC show...

Fri, 10 May

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The political press has long used the vague notion of “electability” to drive horserace coverage...

Wed, 8 May

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Renowned director and documentarian Werner Herzog's latest filmmaking endeavor examines the legacy ...

Fri, 3 May

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After accusations that he mischaracterized the Mueller investigation’s findings, Attorney General ...

Thu, 2 May 2019 02:00:00 +0000

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Whether Robert Durst confessed on camera will become a relevant legal matter in the real estate fig...

Fri, 26 Apr

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A week after the redacted Mueller report’s release, Democrats weigh the risks — and imperatives ...

Wed, 24 Apr

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Once in a while, in this space, we offer you an episode of another podcast that we think is pretty a...

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:42:00 +0000

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After years of waiting, journalists finally began digging into the redacted version of the Mueller r...

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:45:00 +0000

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Tax Day is behind us, but the Taxpayer First Act is not. The bipartisan proposal passed the House la...

Fri, 12 Apr

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London, and now faces prosecution. On this week’s...

Wed, 10 Apr

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New York Times reporter Michael Schwirtz set out to investigate a series of assassinations in Ukra...

Fri, 5 Apr

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Recently, a member of the Trump administration called Puerto Rico “that country,” obscuring once...

Tue, 2 Apr 2019 17:23:53 +0000

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California recently passed a law that eliminates some of the barriers to accessing records on egreg...

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 19:28:00 +0000

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With the Mueller investigation complete, talking heads have given the short public summary their usu...

Wed, 27 Mar

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Purdue Pharma has settled a lawsuit with the state of Oklahoma for $270 million, a larger figure tha...

Fri, 22 Mar

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In the aftermath of white supremacist attacks in New Zealand, there's a tension between reporting on...

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:42:52 +0000

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The details are different but the story is the same. A mass shooting, scores of people dead, another...

Wed, 13 Mar

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To suggest that Tucker Carlson has a tendency to hint at deeply discriminatory tropes would be cli...

Wed, 13 Mar

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A college admissions scandal has highlighted what people refer to as "the myth of meritocracy." But ...

Fri, 8 Mar

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Mexican officials and U.S. Customs and Border Protection are using a secret database to target journ...

Wed, 6 Mar

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This Tuesday, lawmakers in Washington heard from an 18-year-old who, against all odds, got his shots...

Fri, 1 Mar

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When President Trump’s former personal lawyer testified in front of Congress this week, it was bot...

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:52:00 +0000

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On Sunday night, Marvel’s Black Panther film won the Oscar for three of its six Academy Award nomi...

Fri, 22 Feb

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Twitch.tv is a video streaming platform where millions of people broadcast their lives and video ga...

Wed, 20 Feb

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Founded in 1936, the German-American Bund had approximately 25,000 members and 70 chapters around th...

Fri, 15 Feb

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The 2020 Democratic field is the most diverse ever, and five women are running to be the party’s p...

Wed, 13 Feb

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For this week's pod extra, we feature a conversation from WNYC'S Brian Lehrer Show. Brian talked wit...

Fri, 8 Feb

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At Tuesday's State of the Union, President Trump continued to call for a wall at the southern border...

Tue, 5 Feb 2019 21:31:00 +0000

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Despite steadily declining rates of cancer deaths over the past two decades, cancer remains responsi...

Fri, 1 Feb

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The Venezuelan press has been facing repression for years. This week, On the Media explores how jour...

Wed, 30 Jan

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This week, the latest tell-all memoir from a former White House staffer hit bookstores. Team of Vipe...

Fri, 25 Jan

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The Lincoln Memorial debacle showed how vulnerable the press are to a myriad of social and political...

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:54:00 +0000

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When he was still in his twenties, Martin Luther King Jr. was, among other things, an advice columni...

Fri, 18 Jan

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For the past month, journalists have been reporting on the anxieties of furloughed federal workers. ...

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:23:00 +0000

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Rosanne's Cash's new album features 10 new songs, all written and co-written by Cash, that find her ...

Fri, 11 Jan

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On Thursday, President Trump flew down to McAllen, Texas to push his pro-wall, anti-immigrant narrat...

Wed, 9 Jan

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Is it too ordinary to be afraid of your cat dying? Jeff VanderMeer is an author based in Tallahass...

Fri, 4 Jan

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Just outside of Mobile, Alabama, sits the small community of Africatown, a town established by the l...

Tue, 1 Jan 2019 03:00:00 +0000

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Joe Frank -- the radio producer’s radio producer, the ultimate acquired taste -- died last Januar...

Fri, 28 Dec

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After World War II, Germany and the Allied powers took pains to make sure that its citizens would ne...

Tue, 25 Dec 2018 03:00:00 +0000

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Merry Christmas, to those who celebrate! To those who don't (and, aw heck, to those who do too) we o...

Fri, 21 Dec

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Two weeks ago, a seven-year-old girl died in Customs and Border Patrol custody. This week, On the Me...

Wed, 19 Dec

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In 1971, federal investigators convened two grand juries to investigate, among other things, the pub...

Fri, 14 Dec

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It’s been 100 years since one of the deadliest diseases... well, ever. The 1918-1919 flu pandemic...

Wed, 12 Dec

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Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison f...

Fri, 7 Dec

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The death of George H.W. Bush brought us a week’s worth of ceremony, eulogy and wall-to-wall cover...

Wed, 5 Dec

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Satisfaction at the political enemy’s hypocrisy can be so rich that partisan critics strain — so...

Fri, 30 Nov

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The White House tried to bury a devastating climate assessment on Black Friday; this week, On the M...

Wed, 28 Nov

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A government climate change report was released last week and summarily dismissed...by the governmen...

Fri, 23 Nov

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The message from Silicon Valley seems to be that self-driving cars are the way of the future. This w...

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:35:00 +0000

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On the 155th anniversary of The Gettysburg Address, we bring you a conversation with Professor Adam...

Fri, 16 Nov

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Over a week after the midterms, there's uncertainty in key races in Florida and Georgia. We examine ...

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:56:00 +0000

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The Camp Fire in California is the deadliest in the state's history, leaving the entire city of Para...

Fri, 9 Nov

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America’s divisions are all the more clear after another frenzied news cycle. This week, we ask ...

Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:47:44 +0000

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Last week on our show, Bob spoke with Lilliana Mason, a University of Maryland political psycholog...

Fri, 2 Nov

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After a week of hate-fueled attacks, we examine the "dotted line" from incitement to violence. We d...

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 22:07:00 +0000

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The social media website Gab has faced sanction and scorn in the days since one of its active user...

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:20:00 +0000

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With the midterms approaching, Democrats and Republicans are fighting to control the national conver...

Wed, 24 Oct

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Nearly two years since the 2016 Presidential Election, much of the press are still covering so-calle...

Fri, 19 Oct

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In using a genetic test to try to prove her Native ancestry, Senator Elizabeth Warren inadvertently ...

Wed, 17 Oct

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Another chapter in the history of American consumerism came to a close this week when the retail gia...

Fri, 12 Oct

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Ten autumns ago came two watershed moments in the history of money. In September 2008, the bankruptc...

Wed, 10 Oct

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Last week, the MacArthur Foundation awarded genius grants to 25 creatives in art, literature, scienc...

Fri, 5 Oct

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On Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh acknowledged his sharp...

Wed, 3 Oct

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President Donald Trump has had many roles in his life: Real estate scion, reality show star, Oval Of...

Fri, 28 Sep

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The Kavanaugh-Ford hearings this week felt like a watershed moment — but it’s not yet clear what...

Wed, 26 Sep

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On Tuesday, nearly four years since a viral comedy routine helped usher a long list of rape and se...

Fri, 21 Sep

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Senators are weighing serious allegations of attempted rape as they consider Judge Kavanaugh's nomin...

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:58:00 +0000

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This past week’s coverage of Hurricane Florence has had all the trappings of a terrible storm: the...

Fri, 14 Sep

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The anniversary of a disaster gives us a moment to reflect on whether we have learned the right less...

Wed, 12 Sep

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On Wednesday, as Florence swirled ominously off the coast of the Carolinas, and states prepared for ...

Fri, 7 Sep

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Between the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill and an anonymous op-ed from within the T...

Wed, 5 Sep

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Six weeks ago, CNN broke a blockbuster story: According to several anonymous sources, President Trum...

Fri, 31 Aug

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For more than a year, Lois Beckett [@loisbeckett], senior reporter at The Guardian US, has been sho...

Wed, 29 Aug

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After an earthquake struck Nepal in April of 2015, the post-disaster media coverage followed a traje...

Fri, 24 Aug

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End-of-times narratives themselves are nothing new; only the means have changed. While once a few h...

Wed, 22 Aug

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When a commercial plane goes down, media speculation ensues. With the help of The Atlantic's James...

Fri, 17 Aug

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Twitch.tv is a video streaming platform where tens of thousands people broadcast their lives and vi...

Wed, 15 Aug

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Back in the summer of 2016, Turkish putschists shut down highways, attacked government buildings and...

Fri, 10 Aug

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People like neo-nazi Andrew Anglin and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have long tested the limits of...

Wed, 8 Aug

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For media professionals, hurricanes offer the very best kind of bad news because the story arc is pr...

Fri, 3 Aug

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At a rally in Tampa, Florida, Trump supporters attacked CNN reporter Jim Acosta, prompting the presi...

Thu, 2 Aug 2018 20:02:00 +0000

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This summer, in a project designed by ProPublica, 10 news organizations are sharing information to ...

Fri, 27 Jul

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Socialism is having a moment in the sunlight — that is, on daytime television. Yet at the same tim...

Wed, 25 Jul

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This week On the Media recommends a new podcast from our colleagues at WNYC. Check it out. Prodigy a...

Fri, 20 Jul

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In a matter of months, we've moved from bipartisan immigration talks to calls to abolish ICE. On thi...

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:09:00 +0000

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Four years ago this week, on July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island at the hands of a New ...

Fri, 13 Jul

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Reporting on the Russia investigation is not for the faint of heart. This week, a look at how a jo...

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 21:45:00 +0000

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With President Trump's nomination of federal judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court will likely ...

Fri, 6 Jul

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This week, we devote an entire hour to what one important scholar deemed “the cause of and solutio...

Fri, 29 Jun

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Following a string of landmark Supreme Court rulings and a surprise retirement, this week On the Med...