Excavating the Epstein files
British journalist Vicky Ward first profiled sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 for Vanity Fair. The experience was so alarming and stressful that she went into labor with her twins at 30 weeks, two...
11 Feb 45min
Love, Race & the ‘Mixed Marriage Project’
Almost a decade after her father's death, legal scholar Dorothy Roberts had to confront the 25 boxes of his research collecting dust in her office. Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black...
10 Feb 43min
The Ruby Ridge siege & conspiracy-laced politics in America
We look back at the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge in Idaho, where gunfire left two civilians and a deputy U.S. Marshal dead. Chris Jennings’ new book explores the apocalyptic religious beliefs that led Ran...
9 Feb 45min
Best Of: Fighting for free press in Russia / ‘Fear and Fury’
Julia Loktev’s latest documentary, ‘My Undesirable Friends - Part 1: Last Air in Moscow,’ follows independent Russian journalists in the months leading up to, and just after, Russia’s full-scale invas...
7 Feb 47min
A 50th anniversary celebration of ‘Taxi Driver’
Martin Scorsese's masterpiece about loneliness, urban decay, and vigilantism is 50 years old this month. We’re revisiting archival interviews about ‘Taxi Driver’ with Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schra...
6 Feb 47min
Following independent journalists fighting for free press in Russia
Julia Loktev's acclaimed documentary, ‘My Undesirable Friends,’ follows young Russian journalists in the months before and after Putin's invasion of Ukraine — and the impossible choices they face when...
5 Feb 43min
Is America headed toward dictatorship?
Atlantic writer Robert Kagan says as President Trump violates norms, laws and the Constitution, including his call to nationalize elections, we’re on the edge of the consolidation of dictatorship. “I ...
4 Feb 44min
How Rupert Murdoch built an empire and broke his family
We go inside the real succession story within the Murdoch family media empire. It includes Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. In 2023 Rupert Murdoch chose his eldest son and most...
3 Feb 44min
