On the Media

Inside the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

A local paper gets searched by police. Tragedy ensues.

From our friends at the New Yorker Radio Hour.

Plus, life sentences for zine-makers in Texas.

The 'hot dog' men of the far right.

Blaming Vance, a ‘catastrophic capitulation,’ and a MAGA breakup.

In his new book, JD Vance tries to walk back his old "childless cat lady" comments.

The trillionaire's role in Belfast; chaos at 60 Minutes; and how to survive authoritarianism.

A deep dive into "Make China Great Again" internet literature.

Plus, a literary AI scandal heralds a new era of publishing and journalism.

Hiring at the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency.

Plus, how a deadly prison fire in 1930 changed the course of history for CBS News.

From apparatchik to samizdat, Russians have lots of words for describing life under an oppressive government.

FEMA’s uncertain future. Plus, what happens when the next disaster strikes?

10,000 new spots for Afrikaners

Oh, and there's a basic statistical error in the majority's opinion.

Plus, how human psychology might play a role.

Is the stock market ignoring an oil crisis? And FEMA in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

A shrine to a president, hold the records.

How did the agency tasked with saving Americans become despised, distrusted, and defunded?

The forgotten history of CBS's first breaking news radio report, delivered by a charismatic inmate

Trump faces a new accusation; The Onion is taking over InfoWars; and the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now!

Prediction markets are in the headlines again

Plus, Hungary's new Prime Minister vows to dismantle Orban's "factory of lies"

NPR's Planet Money wrote a book and made a series about the process.

Plus, shortwave radio in the 21st century.

What might follow this weekend's national election.

Plus, Peter Thiel’s theory of the antichrist.

And why games, like Twister and Dungeons and Dragons, can point us in the right direction...

Plus, meet the new Pentagon press corps.

How to make sense of the deluge of attacks on trans rights.

Plus, AI war fakery is getting trickier than ever.

Mr. Nobody Against Putin Wins An Oscar!

Then the bombing started in Iran

A new district court ruling may be a good sign for the future of Voice of America.

AI warfare in Iran; and standing up for democracy

The beginning of our true crime era.

Media capture, media danger, and media power

Capitalists, oligarchs, and authoritarians, oh my!

(by making it more conservative)

The story of a crime in a small, southern town…that became a spark for the budding civil rights movement.

Meta and Google go on trial for ‘addicting’ kids. Plus, betting infiltrates cable TV.

During an internet blackout, thousands of protestors are killed in Iran by armed government forces.

A failure of justice and champions of Puerto Rican culture.

Oscar-nominated documentary pays tribute to the work of the first American journalist killed by Russians while covering the war in Ukraine.

Plus, what the Boston Massacre can teach us about Minneapolis.

Stars and Stripes gets an uninvited makeover courtesy of the DOD

Plus, how ICE watches and recruits us.

MORE MARK BLYTH!

What’s happening at the Fed, and a new documentary from Russia.

Donald Trump's "Darth Vader"

Debunking Minnesota claims; why Trump keeps threatening global takeovers.

Who is Gertrude Berg?

Our hosts’ favorite segments of 2025

How Bari Weiss got here.

Onward and upward

How the Netflix documentary got made.

AI–everything everywhere all at once

AI slop anyone?

The Supreme Court debates presidential power; Hollywood in existential crisis.

Perez Hilton at the edge of journalism

Meet the new Pentagon press corps

One source said DOGE operatives had “burrowed into the agencies like ticks.”

X is full of overseas bots, and a documentary about librarians

This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Bullseye.

The Democrats’ identity crisis, explained.

If you’ve ever donated to a Democratic candidate, you’ve probably been rewarded with a never-ending stream of pleas for more money in your inbox.

Inside the fight over the future of academic freedom.

A fight over anti-semitism has rocked the GOP

This week, it gets personal…

The discourse around 'moderate vs. progressive' Democrats has gotten out of hand.

A brand new season.

And so it begins...

The “shadow president”; a white nationalist influencer; and the kids are alright?

How federal cuts are changing public media, and how our station is facing this critical moment.

Surveilling ICE; a historian forced to flee; and true-crime’s impact on real life.

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley spent decades trying to negotiate peace in the Middle East, and they know why it failed.

The “Dual State;” and a new media empire.

A journalist writing from prison upends the typical 'true crime' narrative.

Jamelle Bouie doesn’t mince words; lessons from Casablanca.

The continued fight for democracy in Uganda.

The war on terror and drugs combines; and the canonization of Charlie Kirk.

Edward R. Murrow, CBS and the fight against McCarthyism

A “radicalization engine”; and librarians under siege

The doctor is in.

The shooting of a conservative media icon, and a new bias monitor at CBS.

Stories we tell about the end of the world.

Trump's deployment of troops; how MAGA talks about authoritarianism; and Ukraine's memorials.

Mistaken identity and the power of online fury.

The recipe for an autocracy; how to understand the 3.5% rule.

Dorothy Thompson “thinks, talks and sleeps world problems and scares strange men half to death.”

The Divided Dial, and the consequences of freezing funding for a global media network.

The New York Times called him the “ranking nuisance of broadcasting.”

Silicon Valley’s reactionary roots; the Bluesky CEO explains her mission.

A Black preacher whose reputation took an unlikely turn.

Facts under fire; a viral YouTube channel claims to foster ‘radical empathy.’

Uncovered by WNYC reporters.

Mass starvation in Gaza sparks a turning point; the forgotten inventor of the sitcom.

Murdoch's legacy.