Bob Garfield

NPR's head of news resigned this week amid sexual harassment allegations from several women. The network's media correspondent talks about helping to tell their stories.

While most newsrooms focus their attention on the Mueller investigation's first indictments, Fox News is focusing on...anything else.

After being held at Guantanamo for fourteen years without charge or trial, Mohamedou Ould Slahi is able to share his story in his own voice, without FBI redactions. 

Following the first arrests in Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, the media are rushing to catch up. Marcy Wheeler helps us interpret the details and the silences.

When the court rules that someone else is in charge of your finances — and your life.

How the drug industry tricked Congress into dismantling oversight in the midst of the opioid crisis. And how nobody noticed.

In the absence of local reporting, obituaries and death notices offer a sense of the human toll of the opioid epidemic.

Our current opioid crisis is rooted partially in narratives about pain and pain management that have been shaped by pharmaceutical companies and aided by unquestioning journalists.

President Trump threatened to revoke NBC's broadcast license this week. He can't really do that, but should we be worried anyway?

CBS' David Begnaud is back in Puerto Rico, and he says conditions there are possibly even more dire than they were last week. 

For non-fans, country music is often assumed to represent a white working class that is reactionary, simplistic and bigoted. A look at the genre's depth and why it's misunderstood.

The media have been tracking the rising death tolls in Las Vegas and Puerto Rico. But are numbers the best way to represent tragedies?

Country music is assumed to be the soundtrack of the Republican Party. But it wasn't always that way. Bob looks at the political history of country music.

New FBI data shows that homicides were up by 8.6% in 2016. Why politicians, commentators and advocates interpret that number so differently.

The Spanish government is raiding newsrooms and Catalan government offices in an effort to quash the upcoming Catalan independence referendum.

After Hugh Hefner's death on Wednesday, Bob and Brooke revisit conversations they had with, and about, the Playboy Magazine founder.

Hurricanes Irma and Maria have left a crippled Puerto Rico struggling for electricity, drinking water and recognition from mainland politicians and the media.

The US government is pressuring Russia-run media outlets RT and Sputnik to register themselves as propaganda. But do we stand to lose more than we gain?

Tech giants like Facebook assure us of their commitment to democracy, but others think our democracy won't be safe until we take on the tech platforms themselves.

Over the years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has faced criticism from the left and the right. SPLC President Richard Cohen responds to recent financial and political charges.