Bob Garfield appears in the following:
The Fight Against the Original New Deal
Friday, September 20, 2019
What the backlash to the last New Deal can teach us about the coming fight for the Green New Deal.
Understanding the Terror of Domestic Violence
Friday, September 13, 2019
How the media and law fail to capture the domestic violence epidemic — and its potential solutions.
Good Riddance, John Bolton
Friday, September 13, 2019
Pundits bemoaning John Bolton's ouster should take a closer look at his record.
Why Many Afghans Don't Understand 9/11
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
During the height of fighting in Afghanistan, one survey found that 92 percent of southern Afghan men hadn't heard of 9/11. We look at why misconceptions about this 18-year war persist.
Reporting the Weather in #2019
Friday, September 06, 2019
Probabilistic forecasting for an impatient audience in search of certainty.
Remembering Les Gelb
Wednesday, September 04, 2019
Leslie Gelb died last week at the age of 82. Brooke revisits an enlightening conversation they had about his role in the creation of the Pentagon Papers.
In Puerto Rico, What Comes Next?
Friday, August 09, 2019
There are more protests on the island against the newly sworn-in governor. But there are also more conversations about what comes next.
Democracy For Me — But Not For Thee
Friday, August 09, 2019
Trump is hardly the first American president to govern on the assumption that only white people can self-govern.
Hate Machine
Friday, August 09, 2019
Locating the engines of hate online can take some searching. Finding similar sources on television is easier.
Deciphering the White Power Movement
Wednesday, August 07, 2019
Historian Kathleen Belew says that the key to understanding massacres like the one in El Paso is to understand the movement that they come from.
Oh, Cruel Internet!
Friday, August 02, 2019
The internet can be so mean. And the platforms that dominate it aren't doing anything to stop the cruelty.
Restoring Justice Online
Friday, August 02, 2019
How theories of criminal justice reform can help us detox the internet.
Repairing Justice: An Alternative to Prison
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Part two of a series. If we don’t want to keep locking people in jail for every infraction, what do we do to address injustice when it appears?
A Key Passage of the Mueller Report Read Aloud by Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Volume II. Page 97.
Money, Then and Now
Friday, July 05, 2019
How money didn't arise from barter, and why gold isn't as precious as we might think — the money myths are many.
Ceci N'est Pas Un Dollar
Friday, July 05, 2019
J.S.G. Boggs drew replicas of dollar bills and used them to buy goods and services — until the Secret Service took his fake money out of circulation.
A Very Crypto Future
Friday, July 05, 2019
If money is a story we tell ourselves, the plot is thickening.
How to Influence US Iran Policy ... Without Actually Existing
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
A reporter digs into the mysterious story of a popular Iranian commentator.
