One Year: 1990 | 3. Bush vs. Broccoli

Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most famous photographers in the world—and one of the most controversial. When his work came to Cincinnati in 1990, it would be at the center of a vicious fight over obscenity and the First Amendment, one that threatened the future of art in Ame ...  Show more

Before 1990, there had never been a documented case of a patient getting HIV from a health care worker. Kimberly Bergalis changed that. Her claim that she’d been infected by her dentist would captivate and terrify the country. And the dentist, David Acer, would be made into a vil ...  Show more

Our first episode of 2019 opened the year with a question: “What will Democrats do with their new power?” One of our last offered the a ...

This week, how former US President George Bush Senior took on the all-powerful National Rifle Association; the murder of the campaigning Irish journalist, Veronica Guerin; and how a Soviet submarine got stuck on a Swedish rock during the Cold War. Plus, the Cockney pilot who b ...

A federal judge rebukes special counsel Robert Mueller and springs Paul Manafort from life in the clink. Then, the economy soars, International Women’s Day sparks the communist revolution in Russia, and kids go on strike to protest climate change. Date: 03-08-2019 Learn more ab ...  Show more

Saturday marks one month since the CNN presidential debate – a month that has upended everything, and may have changed the course of history. The world has been following every extraordinary twist, and the consequences are enormous – particularly with the wars in Ukraine and Gaza ...  Show more