How Top NBC Executives Quashed The Bombshell Harvey Weinstein Story
Reporter Ronan Farrow ultimately took the piece to The New Yorker after facing months of opposition at his home network.
The Trump Administration is Leaving the UN Agency That Promotes Freedom of the Press
It’s worth unpacking this a little. Just six years ago, the United States was a member of UNESCO’s key decision making body in good standing. The US championed the candidacy…
Tourmaline on Transgender Storytelling, David France, and the Netflix Marsha P. Johnson Documentary
"Too often, people with resources who already have a platform become the ones to tell the stories of those at the margins."
Is there an art to dubbing movies and TV? Yes, and Germans have mastered it.
It turns out that there are plenty of reasons why dubbing became a thing in Germany while other European countries took the subtitling route. Inevitably perhaps, the story includes Nazis, Communists and…
The Sheepherder’s Ball
Basque sheepherders in the American west. Basques were recruited from Spain and France during the 1930s to tend sheep throughout the western states. Within days of arriving in America these…
New Orleans Visions – King’s Candy & Living with Water
Robert King Wilkerson was imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for 31 years, twenty-nine of those years in solitary confinement. During that time he created a clandestine kitchen in…
From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories
Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.
From the Point of View of a Cat
By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’
How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body – The Microbiome
What happens when microbes talk to your brain?
Let’s Talk about Books
In which John recommends some of his favorite fiction, poetry, and nonfiction reading of the year. Books discussed in this video include: The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThe Inexplicable…