Brooke Gladstone

Brooke discusses the ninth episode of House of Cards with Michael Kelly, who plays Doug Stamper.

Brooke discusses the sixth episode of House of Cards with Nina Khrushcheva and Dan Savage.

Brooke discusses the seventh and eighth episodes of House of Cards with Michael Waldman and John Dean.

Brooke discusses the fifth episode of House of Cards with Fred Kaplan and Patti Solis-Doyle.

Brooke explores Hollywood depictions of cancer and examines how film reflects as well as distorts our perceptions of the disease.  

In 2014, a family launched a media campaign to pressure a drug company to provide a life-saving medicine for their son. We hear how they eventually got the drug.

Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, discusses the convergence of cancer, media, and celebrity.

In the 1990s, Julia Sweeney was a comedian known for her SNL character, Pat. Then her brother got cancer. She discusses performing cancer, and why cancer is inherently hilarious.

Brooke discusses the sixth episode of House of Cards with Nina Khrushcheva and Dan Savage.

Brooke discusses the fourth episode of the season with two veteran political reporters.

Brooke discusses the fifth episode of House of Cards with Fred Kaplan and Patti Solis-Doyle.

A rare muscle cancer made David Grover sick—and famous—when he was just a kid. But then the media moved on. 

We tend to describe cancer with war metaphors: “battling” the disease, winning the “fight.” But this war language might actually be distorting how we think about cancer prevention.

Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be like entering a foreign land where you don't speak the language. 

Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, charts cancer’s 2,500 year history.

The latest cancer cures, fundraising campaigns, and miraculous survival stories are ubiquitous in the news— but cancer coverage rarely reflects real-world cancer incidence rates. 

Brooke discusses the fourth episode of House of Cards with Andrea Bernstein and Matt Katz.

Brooke discusses the third episode of the season with two foreign policy experts. 

On The Media's co-host has a new podcast recapping season 3 of "House of Cards." She joined us to discuss how the show mends the real Washington with a dark, twisted political fantasy.

Brooke discusses the third episode of the season with two foreign policy experts.