Bob Garfield appears in the following:
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.
Waiting in Mexico
Friday, June 14, 2019
While headlines focus on the politics around Trump's so-called trade deal with Mexico, a look at the lives of those who stand to suffer the most.
What "Running From Cops" Learned From "Cops"
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
A new podcast series takes a close look at policing reality TV shows, and there's a lot to be concerned about.
Reckoning With the Media's Role in the Central Park Five Conviction
Friday, June 07, 2019
After a new miniseries on the Central Park Five, a journalist reflects on the media's role in the infamous wrongful conviction.
Dark Money and the Rise of Conservative Orthodoxy
Friday, May 31, 2019
Jane Mayer on the conservative billionaires who revolutionized American politics.
