Pete Hamill in His Own Words — and Voice
Reading Time: 29 minutes Posthumous podcast: Talking tabloids, immigrant dreams, and Frank Sinatra.
Hollywood, Washington, and the Bomb
Reading Time: 16 minutes The crazy but important story of what happens when the White House, the Pentagon, and the world’s greatest scientists are forced to work with Hollywood.
Why Are White Evangelicals Primed for Trump’s Fear-Mongering?
Reading Time: 15 minutes An in-depth look at why evangelicals are Trump’s most unwavering supporters, and their plans for making Christianity great again.
A Democracy’s Ultimate Threat
Reading Time: 19 minutes How the history of CIA and KGB Cold War covert election interference led us to what we face today.
The High Cost of Free Speech
Reading Time: 14 minutes A look at free speech, hate speech, campus speech, and post-truth speech.
McCarthy to Cohn to Trump
Reading Time: 18 minutes Joe McCarthy may have been America’s most vicious demagogue. But he passed all his “skills” onto Donald Trump. To understand McCarthy is to understand what we are living through.
Trump Loses, Remains President?
Reading Time: 18 minutes A former US senator looks at how Trump might lose the election — and still remain in power.
Putin, Putin, Putin
Reading Time: 21 minutes Investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton looks at the untold, human, and complex story of Vladimir Putin.
Can Geoengineering Save the Planet?
Reading Time: 12 minutes A look at the cutting-edge technology that may enable us to actually confront climate change.
Hollywood Has Sold Us ‘Copaganda’
Reading Time: 18 minutes The co-creator of S.W.A.T. talks about how 50 years of police shows on television have shaped and undermined our views of policing and race.