On the Media

Fri, 4 Jul 2025

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

Wed, 2 Jul 2025

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

Fri, 27 Jun 2025

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

Wed, 25 Jun 2025

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

Fri, 20 Jun 2025

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

Wed, 18 Jun 2025

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

Fri, 13 Jun 2025

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

Wed, 11 Jun 2025

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

Fri, 6 Jun 2025

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

Wed, 4 Jun 2025

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

Fri, 30 May 2025

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

Wed, 28 May 2025

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

Fri, 23 May 2025

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

Wed, 21 May 2025

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

Fri, 16 May 2025

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

Wed, 14 May 2025

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

Fri, 9 May 2025

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

Wed, 7 May 2025

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 2025

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

Wed, 30 Apr 2025

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

Fri, 25 Apr 2025

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

Wed, 23 Apr 2025

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

Sat, 19 Apr 2025

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

Wed, 16 Apr 2025

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

Sat, 12 Apr 2025

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

Wed, 9 Apr 2025

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

Fri, 4 Apr 2025

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

Wed, 2 Apr 2025

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

Fri, 28 Mar 2025

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

Wed, 26 Mar 2025

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

Fri, 21 Mar 2025

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

Wed, 19 Mar 2025

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

Fri, 14 Mar 2025

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

Wed, 12 Mar 2025

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

Fri, 7 Mar 2025

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

Wed, 5 Mar 2025

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

Sat, 1 Mar 2025

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

Wed, 26 Feb 2025

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

Fri, 21 Feb 2025

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

Wed, 19 Feb 2025

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

Sat, 15 Feb 2025

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

Wed, 12 Feb 2025

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

Sat, 8 Feb 2025

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

Wed, 5 Feb 2025

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

Sat, 1 Feb 2025

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

Wed, 29 Jan 2025

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

Sat, 25 Jan 2025

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

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

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

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

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

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

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

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

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

Wed, 8 Jan 2025

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

Fri, 3 Jan 2025

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

Wed, 1 Jan 2025

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

Fri, 27 Dec 2024

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

Wed, 25 Dec 2024

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

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

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

Wed, 18 Dec 2024

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

Fri, 13 Dec 2024

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

Wed, 11 Dec 2024

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

Fri, 6 Dec 2024

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

Wed, 4 Dec 2024

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

Fri, 29 Nov 2024

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

Wed, 27 Nov 2024

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

Sat, 23 Nov 2024

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

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

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

Fri, 15 Nov 2024

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

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

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

Fri, 8 Nov 2024

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

Wed, 6 Nov 2024

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

Sat, 2 Nov 2024

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

Wed, 30 Oct 2024

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

Fri, 25 Oct 2024

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

Wed, 23 Oct 2024

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

Sat, 19 Oct 2024

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

Wed, 16 Oct 2024

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

Fri, 11 Oct 2024

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

Wed, 9 Oct 2024

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

Fri, 4 Oct 2024

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

Wed, 2 Oct 2024

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

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

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

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

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

Fri, 20 Sep 2024

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

Wed, 18 Sep 2024

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

Fri, 13 Sep 2024

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

Wed, 11 Sep 2024

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

Fri, 6 Sep 2024

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

Wed, 4 Sep 2024

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

Fri, 30 Aug 2024

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

Wed, 28 Aug 2024

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

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

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

Wed, 21 Aug 2024

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

Fri, 16 Aug 2024

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

Wed, 14 Aug 2024

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

Fri, 9 Aug 2024

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

Wed, 7 Aug 2024

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

Fri, 2 Aug 2024

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

Wed, 31 Jul 2024

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

Fri, 26 Jul 2024

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

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

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

Fri, 19 Jul 2024

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

Wed, 17 Jul 2024

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

Fri, 12 Jul 2024

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

Wed, 10 Jul 2024

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

Fri, 5 Jul 2024

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

Wed, 3 Jul 2024

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

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

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

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

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

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

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

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

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

Fri, 14 Jun 2024

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

Wed, 12 Jun 2024

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

Fri, 7 Jun 2024

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

Wed, 5 Jun 2024

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

Sat, 1 Jun 2024

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

Wed, 29 May 2024

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

Fri, 24 May 2024

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

Wed, 22 May 2024

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

Fri, 17 May 2024

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

Wed, 15 May 2024

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

Fri, 10 May 2024

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

Wed, 8 May 2024

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

Fri, 3 May 2024

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

Wed, 1 May 2024

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

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

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

Wed, 24 Apr 2024

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

Fri, 19 Apr 2024

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

Wed, 17 Apr 2024

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

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

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

Wed, 10 Apr 2024

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

Fri, 5 Apr 2024

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

Wed, 3 Apr 2024

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

Fri, 29 Mar 2024

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

Wed, 27 Mar 2024

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

Fri, 22 Mar 2024

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 2024

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

Fri, 15 Mar 2024

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

Wed, 13 Mar 2024

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

Fri, 8 Mar 2024

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

Wed, 6 Mar 2024

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

Fri, 1 Mar 2024

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

Wed, 28 Feb 2024

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

Fri, 23 Feb 2024

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

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

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

Fri, 16 Feb 2024

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

Wed, 14 Feb 2024

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

Fri, 9 Feb 2024

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

Wed, 7 Feb 2024

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

Fri, 2 Feb 2024

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

Wed, 31 Jan 2024

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

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

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

Wed, 24 Jan 2024

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

Fri, 19 Jan 2024

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

Tue, 16 Jan 2024

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

Fri, 12 Jan 2024

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

Wed, 10 Jan 2024

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

Fri, 5 Jan 2024

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

Wed, 3 Jan 2024

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

Fri, 29 Dec 2023

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 2023

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

Fri, 22 Dec 2023

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

Wed, 20 Dec 2023

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

Fri, 15 Dec 2023

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

Wed, 13 Dec 2023

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

Fri, 8 Dec 2023

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

Wed, 6 Dec 2023

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

Fri, 1 Dec 2023

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

Wed, 29 Nov 2023

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

Fri, 24 Nov 2023

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

Wed, 22 Nov 2023

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

Fri, 17 Nov 2023

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

Wed, 15 Nov 2023

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

Fri, 10 Nov 2023

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

Wed, 8 Nov 2023

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

Fri, 3 Nov 2023

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

Tue, 31 Oct 2023

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

Fri, 27 Oct 2023

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

Wed, 25 Oct 2023

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

Fri, 20 Oct 2023

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

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

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

Fri, 13 Oct 2023

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

Wed, 11 Oct 2023

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

Fri, 6 Oct 2023

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

Wed, 4 Oct 2023

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

Fri, 29 Sep 2023

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

Wed, 27 Sep 2023

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

Fri, 22 Sep 2023

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

Wed, 20 Sep 2023

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

Fri, 15 Sep 2023

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

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

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

Fri, 8 Sep 2023

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

Thu, 7 Sep 2023

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

Fri, 1 Sep 2023

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

Wed, 30 Aug 2023

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

Fri, 25 Aug 2023

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

Wed, 23 Aug 2023

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

Fri, 18 Aug 2023

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

Wed, 16 Aug 2023

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

Fri, 11 Aug 2023

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

Wed, 9 Aug 2023

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

Fri, 4 Aug 2023

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

Wed, 2 Aug 2023

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

Fri, 28 Jul 2023

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

Wed, 26 Jul 2023

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

Fri, 21 Jul 2023

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

Tue, 18 Jul 2023

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

Fri, 14 Jul 2023

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

Wed, 12 Jul 2023

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

Fri, 7 Jul 2023

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

Wed, 5 Jul 2023

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

Fri, 30 Jun 2023

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

Wed, 28 Jun 2023

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

Fri, 23 Jun 2023

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

Wed, 21 Jun 2023

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

Fri, 16 Jun 2023

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

Wed, 14 Jun 2023

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

Fri, 9 Jun 2023

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

Wed, 7 Jun 2023

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

Fri, 2 Jun 2023

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

Wed, 31 May 2023

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

Fri, 26 May 2023

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

Wed, 24 May 2023

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

Fri, 19 May 2023

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

Wed, 17 May 2023

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

Fri, 12 May 2023

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

Wed, 10 May 2023

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

Tue, 9 May 2023

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

Mon, 8 May 2023

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

Sun, 7 May 2023

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

Sat, 6 May 2023

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

Fri, 5 May 2023

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

Wed, 3 May 2023

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

Fri, 28 Apr 2023

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

Wed, 26 Apr 2023

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

Fri, 21 Apr 2023

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

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

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

Fri, 14 Apr 2023

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

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

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

Fri, 7 Apr 2023

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

Wed, 5 Apr 2023

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

Fri, 31 Mar 2023

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

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

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

Fri, 24 Mar 2023

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

Wed, 22 Mar 2023

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

Fri, 17 Mar 2023

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

Wed, 15 Mar 2023

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

Fri, 10 Mar 2023

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

Wed, 8 Mar 2023

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

Fri, 3 Mar 2023

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

Wed, 1 Mar 2023

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 2023

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

Wed, 22 Feb 2023

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

Fri, 17 Feb 2023

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

Wed, 15 Feb 2023

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

Fri, 10 Feb 2023

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 2023

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

Fri, 3 Feb 2023

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

Wed, 1 Feb 2023

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

Fri, 27 Jan 2023

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

Tue, 24 Jan 2023

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

Fri, 20 Jan 2023

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 2023

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

Fri, 13 Jan 2023

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

Wed, 11 Jan 2023

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

Fri, 6 Jan 2023

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 2023

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

Fri, 30 Dec 2022

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

Wed, 28 Dec 2022

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

Fri, 23 Dec 2022

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 2022

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 2022

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

Thu, 15 Dec 2022

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

Fri, 9 Dec 2022

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

Tue, 6 Dec 2022

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

Fri, 2 Dec 2022

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

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

Tue, 29 Nov 2022

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

Fri, 25 Nov 2022

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

Wed, 23 Nov 2022

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

Mon, 21 Nov 2022

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

Fri, 18 Nov 2022

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

Wed, 16 Nov 2022

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

Tue, 15 Nov 2022

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

Fri, 11 Nov 2022

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

Wed, 9 Nov 2022

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

Fri, 4 Nov 2022

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

Wed, 2 Nov 2022

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

Fri, 28 Oct 2022

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

Thu, 27 Oct 2022

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

Fri, 21 Oct 2022

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

Wed, 19 Oct 2022

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

Fri, 14 Oct 2022

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

Wed, 12 Oct 2022

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

Fri, 7 Oct 2022

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

Fri, 30 Sep 2022

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

Wed, 28 Sep 2022

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

Fri, 23 Sep 2022

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

Wed, 21 Sep 2022

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

Fri, 16 Sep 2022

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

Wed, 14 Sep 2022

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

Fri, 9 Sep 2022

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

Wed, 7 Sep 2022

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

Fri, 2 Sep 2022

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

Thu, 1 Sep 2022

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

Fri, 26 Aug 2022

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

Wed, 24 Aug 2022

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

Fri, 19 Aug 2022

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

Wed, 17 Aug 2022

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

Fri, 12 Aug 2022

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

Wed, 10 Aug 2022

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

Fri, 5 Aug 2022

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

Thu, 4 Aug 2022

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

Fri, 29 Jul 2022

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

Thu, 28 Jul 2022

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

Fri, 22 Jul 2022

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

Thu, 21 Jul 2022

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

Fri, 15 Jul 2022

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

Wed, 13 Jul 2022

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

Fri, 8 Jul 2022

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

Wed, 6 Jul 2022

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

Fri, 1 Jul 2022

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

Thu, 30 Jun 2022

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

Fri, 24 Jun 2022

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

Thu, 23 Jun 2022

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

Fri, 17 Jun 2022

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

Thu, 16 Jun 2022

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

Fri, 10 Jun 2022

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

Wed, 8 Jun 2022

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

Fri, 3 Jun 2022

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

Thu, 2 Jun 2022

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

Fri, 27 May 2022

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

Wed, 25 May 2022

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

Fri, 20 May 2022

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

Wed, 18 May 2022

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

Fri, 13 May 2022

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

Thu, 12 May 2022

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

Fri, 6 May 2022

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

Wed, 4 May 2022

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

Fri, 29 Apr 2022

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

Wed, 27 Apr 2022

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

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

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

Wed, 20 Apr 2022

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

Fri, 15 Apr 2022

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

Wed, 13 Apr 2022

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

Fri, 8 Apr 2022

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

Wed, 6 Apr 2022

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

Fri, 1 Apr 2022

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

Wed, 30 Mar 2022

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

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

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

Wed, 23 Mar 2022

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

Fri, 18 Mar 2022

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

Wed, 16 Mar 2022

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

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

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

Wed, 9 Mar 2022

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

Fri, 4 Mar 2022

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

Fri, 25 Feb 2022

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

Wed, 23 Feb 2022

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

Fri, 18 Feb 2022

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

Wed, 16 Feb 2022

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

Fri, 11 Feb 2022

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

Wed, 9 Feb 2022

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

Fri, 4 Feb 2022

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

Wed, 2 Feb 2022

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

Fri, 28 Jan 2022

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

Wed, 26 Jan 2022

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

Fri, 21 Jan 2022

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

Wed, 19 Jan 2022

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

Fri, 14 Jan 2022

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

Thu, 13 Jan 2022

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

Fri, 7 Jan 2022

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

Wed, 5 Jan 2022

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

Fri, 31 Dec 2021

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

Wed, 29 Dec 2021

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

Fri, 24 Dec 2021

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

Wed, 22 Dec 2021

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

Fri, 17 Dec 2021

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

Wed, 15 Dec 2021

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 2021

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

Tue, 7 Dec 2021

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

Fri, 3 Dec 2021

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

Wed, 1 Dec 2021

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

Fri, 26 Nov 2021

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

Wed, 24 Nov 2021

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

Fri, 19 Nov 2021

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

Wed, 17 Nov 2021

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

Fri, 12 Nov 2021

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

Wed, 10 Nov 2021

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

Fri, 5 Nov 2021

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

Wed, 3 Nov 2021

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

Fri, 29 Oct 2021

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

Thu, 28 Oct 2021

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

Fri, 22 Oct 2021

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

Wed, 20 Oct 2021

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

Fri, 15 Oct 2021

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

Thu, 14 Oct 2021

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

Fri, 8 Oct 2021

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

Wed, 6 Oct 2021

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

Fri, 1 Oct 2021

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

Wed, 29 Sep 2021

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

Fri, 24 Sep 2021

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

Wed, 22 Sep 2021

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

Fri, 17 Sep 2021

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

Thu, 16 Sep 2021

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

Fri, 10 Sep 2021

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

Wed, 8 Sep 2021

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

Fri, 3 Sep 2021

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

Wed, 1 Sep 2021

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

Fri, 27 Aug 2021

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

Wed, 25 Aug 2021

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

Fri, 20 Aug 2021

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

Wed, 18 Aug 2021

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

Fri, 13 Aug 2021

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

Wed, 11 Aug 2021

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

Fri, 6 Aug 2021

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

Wed, 4 Aug 2021

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

Fri, 30 Jul 2021

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

Fri, 23 Jul 2021

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

Wed, 21 Jul 2021

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

Fri, 16 Jul 2021

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

Wed, 14 Jul 2021

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

Fri, 9 Jul 2021

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

Wed, 7 Jul 2021

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

Fri, 2 Jul 2021

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

Wed, 30 Jun 2021

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

Fri, 25 Jun 2021

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

Wed, 23 Jun 2021

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

Fri, 18 Jun 2021

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

Wed, 16 Jun 2021

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

Fri, 11 Jun 2021

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

Wed, 9 Jun 2021

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

Fri, 4 Jun 2021

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

Wed, 2 Jun 2021

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

Fri, 28 May 2021

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

Wed, 26 May 2021

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

Fri, 21 May 2021

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 2021

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

Thu, 13 May 2021

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

Fri, 7 May 2021

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

Wed, 5 May 2021

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

Fri, 30 Apr 2021

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

Wed, 28 Apr 2021

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

Fri, 23 Apr 2021

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

Tue, 20 Apr 2021

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

Fri, 16 Apr 2021

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

Wed, 14 Apr 2021

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

Fri, 9 Apr 2021

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

Wed, 7 Apr 2021

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

Tue, 6 Apr 2021

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

Fri, 2 Apr 2021

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

Wed, 31 Mar 2021

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

Tue, 30 Mar 2021

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

Fri, 26 Mar 2021

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

Thu, 25 Mar 2021

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

Tue, 23 Mar 2021

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

Fri, 19 Mar 2021

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

Wed, 17 Mar 2021

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

Tue, 16 Mar 2021

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

Fri, 12 Mar 2021

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

Thu, 11 Mar 2021

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

Tue, 9 Mar 2021

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

Fri, 5 Mar 2021

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

Wed, 3 Mar 2021

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

Fri, 26 Feb 2021

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

Wed, 24 Feb 2021

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

Fri, 19 Feb 2021

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

Wed, 17 Feb 2021

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

Fri, 12 Feb 2021

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

Wed, 10 Feb 2021

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

Fri, 5 Feb 2021

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

Thu, 4 Feb 2021

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

Fri, 29 Jan 2021

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

Thu, 28 Jan 2021

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

Fri, 22 Jan 2021

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

Wed, 20 Jan 2021

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

Fri, 15 Jan 2021

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

Tue, 12 Jan 2021

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

Fri, 8 Jan 2021

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

Fri, 1 Jan 2021

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

Wed, 30 Dec 2020

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 2020

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

Wed, 23 Dec 2020

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

Fri, 18 Dec 2020

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

Wed, 16 Dec 2020

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

Fri, 11 Dec 2020

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

Wed, 9 Dec 2020

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

Fri, 4 Dec 2020

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

Thu, 3 Dec 2020

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

Fri, 27 Nov 2020

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

Wed, 25 Nov 2020

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

Mon, 23 Nov 2020

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

Fri, 20 Nov 2020

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

Wed, 18 Nov 2020

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

Fri, 13 Nov 2020

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

Wed, 11 Nov 2020

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

Fri, 6 Nov 2020

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

Fri, 6 Nov 2020

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

Fri, 30 Oct 2020

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

Wed, 28 Oct 2020

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

Fri, 23 Oct 2020

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

Wed, 21 Oct 2020

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

Fri, 16 Oct 2020

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

Wed, 14 Oct 2020

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

Fri, 9 Oct 2020

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

Thu, 8 Oct 2020

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

Fri, 2 Oct 2020

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

Thu, 1 Oct 2020

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

Wed, 30 Sep 2020

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

Fri, 25 Sep 2020

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

Thu, 24 Sep 2020

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

Fri, 18 Sep 2020

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

Wed, 16 Sep 2020

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

Fri, 11 Sep 2020

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

Wed, 9 Sep 2020

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

Fri, 4 Sep 2020

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

Wed, 2 Sep 2020

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

Fri, 28 Aug 2020

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

Wed, 26 Aug 2020

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

Fri, 21 Aug 2020

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

Wed, 19 Aug 2020

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

Fri, 14 Aug 2020

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

Wed, 12 Aug 2020

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

Fri, 7 Aug 2020

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

Wed, 5 Aug 2020

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

Fri, 31 Jul 2020

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

Wed, 29 Jul 2020

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

Fri, 24 Jul 2020

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

Thu, 23 Jul 2020

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

Thu, 16 Jul 2020

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

Wed, 15 Jul 2020

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

Fri, 10 Jul 2020

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

Wed, 8 Jul 2020

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

Fri, 3 Jul 2020

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

Wed, 1 Jul 2020

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

Fri, 26 Jun 2020

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

Thu, 25 Jun 2020

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

Fri, 19 Jun 2020

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

Thu, 18 Jun 2020

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

Wed, 17 Jun 2020

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

Fri, 12 Jun 2020

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

Wed, 10 Jun 2020

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

Fri, 5 Jun 2020

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

Wed, 3 Jun 2020

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

Fri, 29 May 2020

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

Wed, 27 May 2020

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

Fri, 22 May 2020

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

Wed, 20 May 2020

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

Fri, 15 May 2020

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

Wed, 13 May 2020

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

Fri, 8 May 2020

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

Tue, 5 May 2020

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

Fri, 1 May 2020

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

Wed, 29 Apr 2020

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

Fri, 24 Apr 2020

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

Wed, 22 Apr 2020

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

Fri, 17 Apr 2020

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

Wed, 15 Apr 2020

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

Fri, 10 Apr 2020

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

Thu, 9 Apr 2020

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

Fri, 3 Apr 2020

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

Thu, 2 Apr 2020

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

Fri, 27 Mar 2020

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

Tue, 24 Mar 2020

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

Fri, 20 Mar 2020

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

Wed, 18 Mar 2020

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

Fri, 13 Mar 2020

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

Thu, 12 Mar 2020

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

Wed, 11 Mar 2020

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

Fri, 6 Mar 2020

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

Wed, 4 Mar 2020

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

Fri, 28 Feb 2020

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

Wed, 26 Feb 2020

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

Fri, 21 Feb 2020

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

Wed, 19 Feb 2020

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

Fri, 14 Feb 2020

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

Wed, 12 Feb 2020

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

Fri, 7 Feb 2020

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

Thu, 6 Feb 2020

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

Fri, 31 Jan 2020

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

Wed, 29 Jan 2020

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

Fri, 24 Jan 2020

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

Wed, 22 Jan 2020

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

Fri, 17 Jan 2020

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

Wed, 15 Jan 2020

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

Fri, 10 Jan 2020

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

Wed, 8 Jan 2020

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

Fri, 3 Jan 2020

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

Wed, 1 Jan 2020

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

Fri, 27 Dec 2019

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

Wed, 25 Dec 2019

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

Fri, 20 Dec 2019

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

Wed, 18 Dec 2019

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

Fri, 13 Dec 2019

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

Wed, 11 Dec 2019

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

Fri, 6 Dec 2019

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

Wed, 4 Dec 2019

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

Fri, 29 Nov 2019

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

Tue, 26 Nov 2019

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

Mon, 25 Nov 2019

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

Sun, 24 Nov 2019

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

Sat, 23 Nov 2019

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

Fri, 22 Nov 2019

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

Tue, 19 Nov 2019

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

Fri, 15 Nov 2019

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

Wed, 13 Nov 2019

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

Fri, 8 Nov 2019

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

Wed, 6 Nov 2019

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

Fri, 1 Nov 2019

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

Wed, 30 Oct 2019

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

Fri, 25 Oct 2019

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

Wed, 23 Oct 2019

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

Fri, 18 Oct 2019

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

Wed, 16 Oct 2019

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

Fri, 11 Oct 2019

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

Wed, 9 Oct 2019

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

Fri, 4 Oct 2019

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

Wed, 2 Oct 2019

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

Fri, 27 Sep 2019

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

Wed, 25 Sep 2019

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

Thu, 19 Sep 2019

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

Wed, 18 Sep 2019

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

Fri, 13 Sep 2019

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

Tue, 10 Sep 2019

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

Fri, 6 Sep 2019

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

Wed, 4 Sep 2019

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 2019

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

Wed, 28 Aug 2019

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

Fri, 23 Aug 2019

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

Wed, 21 Aug 2019

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

Fri, 16 Aug 2019

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

Wed, 14 Aug 2019

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

Fri, 9 Aug 2019

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

Tue, 6 Aug 2019

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

Fri, 2 Aug 2019

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

Wed, 31 Jul 2019

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

Fri, 26 Jul 2019

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

Wed, 24 Jul 2019

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

Fri, 19 Jul 2019

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

Wed, 17 Jul 2019

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

Fri, 12 Jul 2019

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

Wed, 10 Jul 2019

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

Fri, 5 Jul 2019

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

Wed, 3 Jul 2019

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

Fri, 28 Jun 2019

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

Fri, 21 Jun 2019

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

Thu, 20 Jun 2019

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

Mon, 17 Jun 2019

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

Fri, 14 Jun 2019

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

Wed, 12 Jun 2019

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

Thu, 6 Jun 2019

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

Wed, 5 Jun 2019

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

Fri, 31 May 2019

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

Wed, 29 May 2019

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

Fri, 24 May 2019

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

Thu, 23 May 2019

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

Fri, 17 May 2019

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

Tue, 14 May 2019

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

Fri, 10 May 2019

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

Wed, 8 May 2019

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

Fri, 3 May 2019

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

Thu, 2 May 2019

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

Fri, 26 Apr 2019

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

Wed, 24 Apr 2019

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

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

Tue, 16 Apr 2019

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

Fri, 12 Apr 2019

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

Wed, 10 Apr 2019

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

Fri, 5 Apr 2019

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

Tue, 2 Apr 2019

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

Thu, 28 Mar 2019

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

Wed, 27 Mar 2019

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

Fri, 22 Mar 2019

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

Tue, 19 Mar 2019

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

Wed, 13 Mar 2019

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

Wed, 13 Mar 2019

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

Fri, 8 Mar 2019

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

Wed, 6 Mar 2019

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

Fri, 1 Mar 2019

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

Tue, 26 Feb 2019

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

Fri, 22 Feb 2019

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

Wed, 20 Feb 2019

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

Fri, 15 Feb 2019

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

Wed, 13 Feb 2019

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

Fri, 8 Feb 2019

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

Tue, 5 Feb 2019

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

Fri, 1 Feb 2019

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

Wed, 30 Jan 2019

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

Fri, 25 Jan 2019

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

Tue, 22 Jan 2019

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

Fri, 18 Jan 2019

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

Tue, 15 Jan 2019

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

Fri, 11 Jan 2019

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

Wed, 9 Jan 2019

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

Fri, 4 Jan 2019

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

Tue, 1 Jan 2019

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

Fri, 28 Dec 2018

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

Tue, 25 Dec 2018

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

Fri, 21 Dec 2018

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

Wed, 19 Dec 2018

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

Fri, 14 Dec 2018

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

Wed, 12 Dec 2018

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

Fri, 7 Dec 2018

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

Wed, 5 Dec 2018

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

Fri, 30 Nov 2018

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

Wed, 28 Nov 2018

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

Fri, 23 Nov 2018

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

Tue, 20 Nov 2018

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

Fri, 16 Nov 2018

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

Tue, 13 Nov 2018

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

Fri, 9 Nov 2018

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

Tue, 6 Nov 2018

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

Fri, 2 Nov 2018

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

Tue, 30 Oct 2018

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

Thu, 25 Oct 2018

With the midterms approaching, Democrats and Republicans are fighting to control the national conver...

Wed, 24 Oct 2018

Nearly two years since the 2016 Presidential Election, much of the press are still covering so-calle...

Fri, 19 Oct 2018

In using a genetic test to try to prove her Native ancestry, Senator Elizabeth Warren inadvertently ...

Wed, 17 Oct 2018

Another chapter in the history of American consumerism came to a close this week when the retail gia...

Fri, 12 Oct 2018

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

Wed, 10 Oct 2018

Last week, the MacArthur Foundation awarded genius grants to 25 creatives in art, literature, scienc...

Fri, 5 Oct 2018

On Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh acknowledged his sharp...

Wed, 3 Oct 2018

President Donald Trump has had many roles in his life: Real estate scion, reality show star, Oval Of...

Fri, 28 Sep 2018

The Kavanaugh-Ford hearings this week felt like a watershed moment — but it’s not yet clear what...

Wed, 26 Sep 2018

On Tuesday, nearly four years since a viral comedy routine helped usher a long list of rape and se...

Fri, 21 Sep 2018

Senators are weighing serious allegations of attempted rape as they consider Judge Kavanaugh's nomin...

Tue, 18 Sep 2018

This past week’s coverage of Hurricane Florence has had all the trappings of a terrible storm: the...

Fri, 14 Sep 2018

The anniversary of a disaster gives us a moment to reflect on whether we have learned the right less...

Wed, 12 Sep 2018

On Wednesday, as Florence swirled ominously off the coast of the Carolinas, and states prepared for ...

Fri, 7 Sep 2018

Between the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill and an anonymous op-ed from within the T...

Wed, 5 Sep 2018

Six weeks ago, CNN broke a blockbuster story: According to several anonymous sources, President Trum...

Fri, 31 Aug 2018

For more than a year, Lois Beckett [@loisbeckett], senior reporter at The Guardian US, has been sho...

Wed, 29 Aug 2018

After an earthquake struck Nepal in April of 2015, the post-disaster media coverage followed a traje...

Fri, 24 Aug 2018

End-of-times narratives themselves are nothing new; only the means have changed. While once a few h...

Wed, 22 Aug 2018

When a commercial plane goes down, media speculation ensues. With the help of The Atlantic's James...

Fri, 17 Aug 2018

Twitch.tv is a video streaming platform where tens of thousands people broadcast their lives and vi...

Wed, 15 Aug 2018

Back in the summer of 2016, Turkish putschists shut down highways, attacked government buildings and...

Fri, 10 Aug 2018

People like neo-nazi Andrew Anglin and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have long tested the limits of...

Wed, 8 Aug 2018

For media professionals, hurricanes offer the very best kind of bad news because the story arc is pr...

Fri, 3 Aug 2018

At a rally in Tampa, Florida, Trump supporters attacked CNN reporter Jim Acosta, prompting the presi...

Thu, 2 Aug 2018

This summer, in a project designed by ProPublica, 10 news organizations are sharing information to ...

Fri, 27 Jul 2018

Socialism is having a moment in the sunlight — that is, on daytime television. Yet at the same tim...

Wed, 25 Jul 2018

This week On the Media recommends a new podcast from our colleagues at WNYC. Check it out. Prodigy a...

Fri, 20 Jul 2018

In a matter of months, we've moved from bipartisan immigration talks to calls to abolish ICE. On thi...

Tue, 17 Jul 2018

Four years ago this week, on July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island at the hands of a New ...

Fri, 13 Jul 2018

Reporting on the Russia investigation is not for the faint of heart. This week, a look at how a jo...

Tue, 10 Jul 2018

With President Trump's nomination of federal judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court will likely ...

Fri, 6 Jul 2018

This week, we devote an entire hour to what one important scholar deemed “the cause of and solutio...

Fri, 29 Jun 2018

Following a string of landmark Supreme Court rulings and a surprise retirement, this week On the Med...

Wed, 27 Jun 2018

There’s a reason why Supreme Court reporters know to never to take a vacation in June. The end o...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018

Family separation, a re-framed immigration debate and Trump's misleading executive order: why news f...

Tue, 19 Jun 2018

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

Fri, 15 Jun 2018

More than two thousand reporters went to Singapore to cover the summit between President Trump and...

Tue, 12 Jun 2018

For decades, Seymour Hersh has been an icon of muckraking, investigative reporting: his work expos...

Fri, 8 Jun 2018

Justice for whom? President Trump’s controversial pardoning spree has benefited political allies a...

Wed, 6 Jun 2018

Puerto Rico was (briefly) back in the news this week when a Harvard study shed more light on many p...

Fri, 1 Jun 2018

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

Wed, 30 May 2018

We talk a lot about right wing news outlets picking up out-of-context facts and amplifying them in t...

Fri, 25 May 2018

Rudy Giuliani has been warning the press that the president may not testify in the Russia investigat...

Thu, 24 May 2018

In November 2016, Bob spoke to Blaze bloviator Glenn Beck to hear about how he was a changed man. ...

Fri, 18 May 2018

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

Wed, 16 May 2018

Studs Terkel, born 106 years ago on this date, May 16, spent the majority of his life documenting th...

Fri, 11 May 2018

Today, more than 45 million Americans live in poverty. The problem has been addressed countless time...

Tue, 8 May 2018

Back in the early 1980s, thousands of followers of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh descended ...

Fri, 4 May 2018

After last month’s terrorist attack in Toronto, the media attempted to make sense of the term “...

Wed, 2 May 2018

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

Fri, 27 Apr 2018

This week, we explore the ways white Americans — in the voting booth, and on T.V. — deal with a ...

Tue, 24 Apr 2018

This week we want to introduce you to some friends of ours at WNYC. Nancy is a podcast hosted by bes...

Fri, 20 Apr 2018

Alex Jones built his Infowars brand on conspiratorial thinking and table-pounding rage. This week, w...

Wed, 18 Apr 2018

This week the venerable Carl Kasell, legendary newscaster and Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me scorekeeper...

Fri, 13 Apr 2018

After Mark Zuckerberg's two-day testimony before Congress, we consider whether a reckoning for the...

Tue, 10 Apr 2018

From our colleagues in the WNYC newsroom who produce Trump Inc.: This week, we’re doing a couple o...

Fri, 6 Apr 2018

With a caravan of activists making its way through Mexico, President Trump signed a proclamation to ...

Tue, 3 Apr 2018

Did you see the video that was making the rounds this weekend? It features a seemingly endless parad...

Fri, 30 Mar 2018

In March of 2003, U.S.–led coalition forces invaded Iraq, sparking a seemingly endless conflagrati...

Wed, 28 Mar 2018

Last week marked the fifteenth anniversary of the night of “Shock and Awe” exploding across the...

Fri, 23 Mar 2018

Cambridge Analytica claims that, with the help of 50 million Facebook users' data, it was able to ta...

Tue, 20 Mar 2018

Five years ago, two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio were found responsible in juv...

Fri, 16 Mar 2018

This week, we look at how selective coverage shapes our view of foreign borders, conflicts and histo...

Tue, 13 Mar 2018

Last week we spoke with New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo after he published an article t...

Fri, 9 Mar 2018

In an age of constant breaking news, it can be hard to tell what matters and what’s just noise. Th...

Wed, 7 Mar 2018

Last week, we put out a special show hosted by The Guardian US’s Lois Beckett, devoted to how repo...

Fri, 2 Mar 2018

For the past year, Lois Beckett [@loisbeckett], senior reporter at The Guardian US, has been showing...

Wed, 28 Feb 2018

The podcast Trump Inc. is a collaboration between WNYC Studios and ProPublica. A team of investigat...

Fri, 23 Feb 2018

Since the Parkland school shooting, the student-led #NeverAgain movement has kept gun control in the...

Thu, 22 Feb 2018

In the wake of the school shooting in Florida we are recycling two interviews that we recorded follo...

Fri, 16 Feb 2018

This week, we dive headfirst into the uncomfortable and the untrue — on the international stage, i...

Wed, 14 Feb 2018

On Monday, Donald Trump released the second budget proposal of his presidency. There’s lots in it ...

Fri, 9 Feb 2018

This week, we devote an entire hour to what one important scholar deemed “the cause of and solutio...

Wed, 7 Feb 2018

Back in January last year,  Donald Trump, newly elected, not yet sworn in, tried to quell concerns ...

Fri, 2 Feb 2018

It was yet another week of will-he-won't-he: Will President Donald Trump authorize the release of th...

Wed, 31 Jan 2018

In his State of the Union speech this week the president announced - to rapturous applause from con...

Fri, 26 Jan 2018

A year into the Trump Administration, thousands continue to take to the streets but has the press lo...

Tue, 23 Jan 2018

Over these last few months, WNYC reporter Matt Katz has been reporting the story of a congolese man ...

Fri, 19 Jan 2018

Recent accusations of sexual misconduct have led some to claim that the #MeToo movement has gone too...

Wed, 17 Jan 2018

During his career as a national security reporter for The New York Times, James Risen reported sever...

Fri, 12 Jan 2018

The book that took D.C. by storm; evaluating our first year under President Trump; the story of the ...

Thu, 11 Jan 2018

Leslie Gelb, the man who supervised the team that compiled the Pentagon Papers, wasn't a character i...

Fri, 5 Jan 2018

The surprising political history of abortion in America; how the language of the abortion debate imp...

Wed, 3 Jan 2018

When the British TV show Black Mirror first arrived in the US in late 2014, it was applauded for ima...

Fri, 29 Dec 2017

Father Time — his 2017 sash bloodied and muddied, no doubt — will soon hand off the baton to Bab...

Thu, 21 Dec 2017

When it comes to fighting fire with fire, common knowledge would have us leave the pyrotechnics to t...

Wed, 20 Dec 2017

In selling their new tax bill to the public, Republicans have leaned heavily on the theme of simpli...

Fri, 15 Dec 2017

Three months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's recovery story is far from over and far from simpl...

Fri, 8 Dec 2017

From Capitol Hill to the workplace to the darkest corners of the internet, it can feel like our wor...

Tue, 5 Dec 2017

Update: On Wednesday, following the release of this pod extra, New York Public Radio announced that ...

Fri, 1 Dec 2017

It was yet another week of outrageous and consequential stories piling on top of one another at a h...

Mon, 27 Nov 2017

The New York Times' profile of Tony Hovater, a white nationalist and Nazi sympathizer, set Twitter o...

Fri, 24 Nov 2017

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

Tue, 21 Nov 2017

If you find yourself fuming at the Thanksgiving table this week when the conversation turns politica...

Fri, 17 Nov 2017

As allegations of sexual misconduct continue to dominate the news, a look at how we are dealing with...

Tue, 14 Nov 2017

New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister says that every new revelation about sexual harassment co...

Fri, 10 Nov 2017

Another massive data leak has cast scrutiny on the world of the ultra-wealthy, but some doubt whethe...

Wed, 8 Nov 2017

It's now a year since Election Day 2016, and a year since we gathered in our office the day after El...

Fri, 3 Nov 2017

Following the announcement of the first indictments in Robert Mueller's special investigation, the m...

Tue, 31 Oct 2017

Speaking this week on Fox News, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly warned against the removal of ...

Fri, 27 Oct 2017

Since the news about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predations, allegations have surfaced against other...

Wed, 25 Oct 2017

The days are getting shorter, the leaves are changing and Halloween is on its way. And with these an...

Fri, 20 Oct 2017

As the opioid crisis in America rages, the government struggles to react. A look at how a 2016 bill ...

Wed, 18 Oct 2017

News came this week that the US backed Syrian Democratic Forces had finally liberated the city of Ra...

Fri, 13 Oct 2017

The President is once again threatening the press, but it's unclear whether he will be able to follo...

Tue, 10 Oct 2017

David Begnaud of CBS was in Puerto Rico before Hurricane Maria hit on September 20. Then, he and hi...

Fri, 6 Oct 2017

The news has been awash in reports of the rising death tolls for the Las Vegas shooting and the ong...

Mon, 2 Oct 2017

On Sunday night, a gunman opened fire on an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas, NV. Since then, rep...

Fri, 29 Sep 2017

As Puerto Rico rations resources and seeks help from the US government, the mainland media has most...

Thu, 28 Sep 2017

In Central Mexico, rescuers continue to sift through piles of rubble left by last week's 7.1 magnitu...

Wed, 27 Sep 2017

When Brooke was at the Texas Tribune festival in Austin last week, she moderated two sessions, one w...

Wed, 27 Sep 2017

Last week Brooke was at the Texas Tribune Festival, an annual event that gathers hundred of speakers...

Fri, 22 Sep 2017

Facebook is under fire for allowing Russian propagandists to buy ads during the 2016 election. This ...

Thu, 21 Sep 2017

Following Hurricane Maria’s landfall on Wednesday morning, we have only scarce images and reports ...

Wed, 20 Sep 2017

Alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos recently released a list of speakers for his upcoming "F...

Fri, 15 Sep 2017

A week after President Trump cut a surprise deal with Democrats, and 100 years after it was created,...

Tue, 12 Sep 2017

President George W. Bush, speaking at a mosque on Sept. 17, 2001: "The face of terror is not the tru...

Fri, 8 Sep 2017

The Trump administration has announced the end of the DACA program. We examine the rhetoric used to ...

Fri, 1 Sep 2017

Hurricane Harvey makes landfall, bringing with it a familiar set of reporting tropes. We unpack the ...

Wed, 30 Aug 2017

For the month of August, we’ve been running a series of interviews Bob has done with documentary f...

Fri, 25 Aug 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has signaled that he'd like to revamp the war on drugs. We take a loo...

Wed, 23 Aug 2017

For the month of August we've been running a series of interviews Bob has done over the years with d...

Fri, 18 Aug 2017

In the 1960s, pollution was a visible, visceral problem, and public pressure led a Republican presi...

Wed, 16 Aug 2017

For the month of August we’ll be running a series of interviews Bob has done over the years with ...

Fri, 11 Aug 2017

After a week of fury and fire, On the Media takes a chill pill. We look at chilling warnings and opa...

Wed, 9 Aug 2017

For the month of August we’ll be running a series of interviews Bob has done over the years with ...

Fri, 4 Aug 2017

The surprising political history of abortion in America; how the language of the abortion debate imp...

Tue, 1 Aug 2017

For the month of August we’ll be running a series of interviews Bob has done over the years with...

Fri, 28 Jul 2017

The battle over Republican Senators' most recent attempt at repealing and replacing the Affordable C...

Wed, 26 Jul 2017

In March, the American Psychoanalytic Association emailed its 3500 members giving them the go ahead ...

Fri, 21 Jul 2017

There’s new research about how people process information, errors, and corrections. A look at what...

Wed, 19 Jul 2017

After the Republican Party’s seven-year attempt to dismantle the Affordable Care Act kicked the b...

Fri, 14 Jul 2017

The press are calling Don Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer a “smoking gun.” Why Trump suppo...

Wed, 12 Jul 2017

Bullseye host Jesse Thorn has just launched a new podcast called The Turnaround. It’s a series of...

Fri, 7 Jul 2017

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

Wed, 5 Jul 2017

In our upcoming episode we’ll examine how science fiction has taken on the challenge of imagining ...

Fri, 30 Jun 2017

Our northern neighbor is celebrating its 150th birthday this weekend, yet many Canadians don’t car...

Thu, 29 Jun 2017

Bob's take on this week's back and forth between the President and the press who cover him.  On the...

Wed, 28 Jun 2017

This week, at the annual conference of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, Bob sa...

Fri, 23 Jun 2017

Following the Republican victory in Georgia this week, a look at how gerrymandering makes some poli...

Wed, 21 Jun 2017

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that a law denying federal trademark protection to names deemed...

Fri, 16 Jun 2017

After the politically charged shooting at a Virginia baseball field this week, a look at how politic...

Wed, 14 Jun 2017

This week Attorneys General from DC and Maryland alleged in a lawsuit that payments by foreign gove...

Fri, 9 Jun 2017

The Trump administration has been threatening to crack down on leakers for months, and this week, it...

Wed, 7 Jun 2017

Help us meet the OTM listener challenge by becoming a member today! Sign up to donate just $7 a mont...

Fri, 2 Jun 2017

A recent anti-Muslim hate crime in Portland has sparked a debate about free speech. Plus: conspiracy...

Wed, 31 May 2017

Help us meet the OTM listener challenge by becoming a member today! Sign up to donate just $7 a mont...

Fri, 26 May 2017

In the wake of the Manchester attack, tech companies are again under pressure to fight extremism onl...

Wed, 24 May 2017

This week, the Supreme Court struck down two congressional districts in North Carolina, deciding tha...

Fri, 19 May 2017

The Trump-Comey story is largely missing from the far right-wing media. A look at how pro-Trump out...

Tue, 16 May 2017

We're living in an era of smoke and mirrors as never before. Do you find yourself wondering how we r...

Thu, 11 May 2017

With an administration that seems to break new traditions every day, we look at the rapid-fire chan...

Wed, 10 May 2017

Our colleagues in the WNYC news department are back with season 2 of The United States of Anxiety. W...

Fri, 5 May 2017

The passage of the Obamacare repeal bill this week—hailed as a triumph of conservative ideology—...

Thu, 4 May 2017

The New York Times' new conservative columnist, Bret Stephens, immediately stirred up controversy w...

Fri, 28 Apr 2017

Trump has backed off his signature campaign promise to build a border wall right away. We look at...

Wed, 26 Apr 2017

Northwestern Iowa’s Storm Lake Times is a twice-weekly county newspaper with a circulation of 3,...

Fri, 21 Apr 2017

Bill O'Reilly was the bombastic, blustery face of Fox News. Now that he's out, what happens to the i...

Thu, 20 Apr 2017

Breaking from an open government initiative started by President Obama, the White House announced ...

Fri, 14 Apr 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has signaled that he'd like to revamp the War on Drugs. We take a loo...

Wed, 12 Apr 2017

Last week, President Trump ordered the firing of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Syria in retaliation...

Fri, 7 Apr 2017

Neil Gorsuch is the newest Supreme Court Justice and all it took was the destruction of a Senate tra...

Tue, 4 Apr 2017

In the midst of several days of his Supreme Court confirmation hearings last week, Judge Neil Gorsuc...

Fri, 31 Mar 2017

When President Trump signed an order dismantling environmental protections, the photo-op included co...

Tue, 28 Mar 2017

Donald Trump made many, many pronouncements on the campaign trail, one of them was that he would "c...

Fri, 24 Mar 2017

An expensive TV ad campaign has been selling Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to the American peop...

Wed, 22 Mar 2017

At his confirmation hearing this week, supreme court nominee Neil Gorsuch - according to the New Yor...

Fri, 17 Mar 2017

The President’s proposed budget seems to prioritize national security over pretty much everything ...

Tue, 14 Mar 2017

Earlier this month libertarian political scientist Charles Murray and author of the book “the Bell...

Fri, 10 Mar 2017

In the 1960s, pollution was a visible, visceral problem, and public pressure led a Republican presi...

Tue, 7 Mar 2017

“Fake news.” What began as a description of utterly false articles, fabricated for political adv...

Fri, 3 Mar 2017

As the Trump-Russia saga continues to unfold, how the Obama administration spent its final days scr...

Wed, 1 Mar 2017

CRISPR is a new technology that enables scientists to quickly alter the genetic makeup of the en...

Thu, 23 Feb 2017

With a president who would rather watch TV than receive intelligence briefings, CNN’s Brian Stelt...

Fri, 17 Feb 2017

Republicans decry the leakers; Democrats applaud them...oh, how the tables have turned. How to make ...

Tue, 14 Feb 2017

In response to scandals large and small, first the Trump campaign and now the Trump White House has ...

Fri, 10 Feb 2017

With the president and the judiciary at odds over the travel ban, the term "constitutional crisis"...

Wed, 8 Feb 2017

The Trump administration's so-called "Muslim ban" has created chaos and confusion at airports aroun...

Fri, 3 Feb 2017

From incendiary phone calls with world leaders to a sloppy military operation in Yemen, a look at ...

Tue, 31 Jan 2017

WH chief strategist Steve Bannon is credited with influencing the president's every move, from spee...

Fri, 27 Jan 2017

The first week of the Trump administration was a frenzy of executive actions, falsehoods, and attack...

Tue, 24 Jan 2017

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and his boss have had a rough first few days in their new jo...

Fri, 20 Jan 2017

President Trump may be the most vocal with his disdain, but he's hardly the first president to have ...

Tue, 17 Jan 2017

When reporting on poverty, the media fall into familiar traps and pundits make prescriptions that di...

Tue, 17 Jan 2017

UPDATE: OTM has received numerous inquiries from listeners who want to help Margaret Smith. If you’...

Tue, 17 Jan 2017

In the third installment of our series, "Busted: America's Poverty Myths," we take on one of our c...

Tue, 17 Jan 2017

UPDATE: Since this series began, OTM has received numerous inquiries from listeners who want to hel...

Tue, 17 Jan 2017

Today, more than 45 million Americans live in poverty. The problem has been addressed countless t...

Fri, 13 Jan 2017

As tensions between the press and the president-elect continue to mount, a look at why some news out...

Wed, 11 Jan 2017

For weeks now, journalists have been aware of a dossier circulating among top officials and the medi...

Fri, 6 Jan 2017

British journalist John Cantlie has been a prisoner of ISIS for more than four years. Throughout his...

Fri, 30 Dec 2016

It's been four hundred years since the death of William Shakespeare, and the Bard is as popular as e...

Wed, 28 Dec 2016

The Man in the High Castle, the Emmy Award winning TV series, imagines a world in which the Nazi’...

Fri, 23 Dec 2016

None of us know what Donald Trump will do once he becomes President Trump. What we do know is wh...

Tue, 20 Dec 2016

This week four more officials were charged in the Flint, Michigan water crisis, bringing the total ...

Fri, 16 Dec 2016

The saga over Russian interference in the election has been marked by secrecy, rumor, and contradict...

Tue, 13 Dec 2016

Recently CNN's Jake Tapper asked VPEOTUS Mike Pence the same question over and over again, hoping f...

Fri, 9 Dec 2016

The Justice Department just vastly expanded the government’s power to hack into your devices... bu...

Wed, 7 Dec 2016

After a mistrial this week in the case of Michael Slager, the police officer caught on camera shooti...

Fri, 2 Dec 2016

We devote this hour to a question put to us pretty much daily since election day: How to cover Presi...

Tue, 29 Nov 2016

In 1957, Fidel Castro was believed to be dead -- until New York Times writer Herbert L. Matthews...

Fri, 25 Nov 2016

This election season, the media frequently looked to history in an attempt to explain the rise of Do...

Wed, 23 Nov 2016

A few years ago, Brooke spoke with the writer Paul Ford about the remarkable connection between ...

Fri, 18 Nov 2016

In the months leading up to the election, some fake news stories generated more engagement on Facebo...

Wed, 16 Nov 2016

According to The Washington Post, more than 800 people have been shot and killed by police office...

Fri, 11 Nov 2016

The press didn’t see it coming. Or did they? This week, we examine the role of data – and delus...

Wed, 9 Nov 2016

It's the morning after in the offices of On the Media. Usually editorial meetings take place in Broo...

Fri, 4 Nov 2016

The months-long protest against the North Dakota Access Pipeline finally received mainstream attenti...

Wed, 2 Nov 2016

One of the most enduring myths of HIV/AIDS history has finally been laid to rest. The so-called "pat...

Fri, 28 Oct 2016

The Trump camp is pointing to "oversampling" in the polls as the latest sign that the election is r...

Tue, 25 Oct 2016

Ever since his 1992 dark horse candidacy captured nearly 19% of the popular vote, there have been ...

Fri, 21 Oct 2016

By now you know that Donald Trump likes to claim that the media, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and ...

Thu, 20 Oct 2016

Mike Pesca is the host of Slate's "The Gist." He braved the post-debate spin room again to bring ...

Wed, 19 Oct 2016

In the midst of an election that has exposed deep and sometimes ugly rifts in American society, WNY...

Fri, 14 Oct 2016

Donald Trump deflected questions about sexual assault allegations at the second presidential deba...

Wed, 12 Oct 2016

In the midst of an election that has exposed deep and sometimes ugly rifts in American society, WNY...

Fri, 7 Oct 2016

Donald Trump and his surrogates say he's a genius for using the tax code to avoid paying taxes. Doe...

Wed, 5 Oct 2016

In this bite-sized OTM, Bob looks at two important news stories that we won't be able to fit into th...

Fri, 30 Sep 2016

Five years into the war in Syria, we examine whether calling the latest horrors "war crimes" will h...

Tue, 27 Sep 2016

Mike Pesca is the host of Slate's "The Gist." He braved the post-debate spin room to bring us this...

Fri, 23 Sep 2016

Three weeks into what’s being called the US’s biggest prison strike ever, very little informatio...

Wed, 21 Sep 2016

Spy magazine coined the term "short-fingered vulgarian" in the 80's to describe Donald Trump and it ...

Fri, 16 Sep 2016

This election may be remembered as the moment when a nebulous and formerly obscure white supremacist...

Wed, 14 Sep 2016

In the days and weeks after the towers fell, nothing felt funny anymore. Comedians on late night TV ...

Fri, 9 Sep 2016

Critics have long viewed Hillary Clinton as untrustworthy and dishonest. This week, we revisit a c...

Wed, 7 Sep 2016

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

Thu, 1 Sep 2016

A University of Chicago welcome letter criticizing political correctness on college campuses reignit...

Wed, 31 Aug 2016

It's the latest and last installment of Bob's Grill, and we've got a special guest chef (it's Brooke...

Fri, 26 Aug 2016

Right-wing rumors about Hillary Clinton's health have made their way into the mainstream media, but ...