Meh-lania

Melania, the documentary about the First Lady, is a lot like its subject: extremely expensive and fundamentally inscrutable.


Guest: Heather Schwedel, staff writer at Slate, author of “Unfortunately, I Have to Recommend You See Melania”.


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Inside the Crisis at the NRA

Inside the Crisis at the NRA

The NRA is in a financial mess of its own doing. A number of executives, vendors, and contractors have used their positions to enrich themselves, extracting hundreds of millions of dollars from the or...

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How Black Feminists Exposed the Alt-Right Online

How Black Feminists Exposed the Alt-Right Online

Back in 2014, a mysterious hashtag started trending on Twitter: #EndFathersDay. The accounts tweeting the extremist sentiments appeared to be the accounts of black women. But black feminists on Twitte...

26 Apr 201916min

This Immigration Judge Has a Fix for Immigration Courts

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25 Apr 201915min

Unmasking The Russians Who Hacked The DNC

Unmasking The Russians Who Hacked The DNC

In this episode April Glaser is joined once again by co-host Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. They start by talking about the Sri Lan...

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The Trump administration wants to add a citizenship question to the U.S. Census, and the proposal has former Census directors up in arms. If the Supreme Court votes to allow the citizenship question, ...

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He Got a Pardon. Now He’s Administering Them.

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