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
Ethan Hawke
"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of playing lyricist Lorenz Hart in ‘Blue Moon.’ He’s nominated for an Oscar for his performance...
2 Feb 44min
Best Of: Novelists Liz Moore & Julian Barnes
Liz Moore’s bestselling book, ‘Long Bright River,’ was set in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood where she’d worked on a photo essay. “My own family has a long history of addiction. I was kind of em...
31 Jan 48min
Guillermo Del Toro would ‘rather die’ than use generative AI
When Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was a kid growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he would draw monsters all day. His deeply Catholic grandmother even had him exorcised because of it. But w...
30 Jan 44min
Former NBC producer on silence, shame and finding words after #MeToo
Brooke Nevils was a young NBC producer working the 2014 Sochi Olympics when, she says, ‘Today Show’ host Matt Lauer sexually assaulted her. Lauer has denied her account, calling their relationship con...
29 Jan 43min
Inside the U.S. reversal on climate change action
President Trump calls global warming "a hoax." As the U.S. faces more severe storms and extreme weather events, New York Times climate reporter David Gelles describes what this means for climate chang...
28 Jan 44min
How Tucker Carlson Became Right-Wing Media’s Most Significant Voice
‘New Yorker’ staff writer Jason Zengerle says after Tucker Carlson was let go from CNN and MSNBC, and joined Fox News, Trump’s 2016 presidential candidacy revived his career. “Those more prestigious F...
27 Jan 45min
The Rebirth Of White Rage
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Heather Ann Thompson talks about the 1984 New York City subway shooting, when Bernhard Goetz, a white man, shot four Black teenagers. "We are watching someone tell us ...
26 Jan 44min
