L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is Bad in a Crisis. Her...

Most leaders hide behind surprise when disaster strikes. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara did the opposite.In a January 2025 interview with The New York Times' Michael Barbaro, O'Hara said the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent was "predictable and entirely preventable"—a ...  Show more

Brooklyn Beckham just torched his parents on Instagram, and the timing? Impeccable. Devastating. Strategic.In this episode, breaking down the Beckham family crisis as it unfolded in real time (Literally! Molly was doing a live BBC interview about the drama while it was still erup ...  Show more

Hey Smarties! Today we’re sharing a special bonus episode from “How We Survive.” It’s a conversation between host Amy Scott, “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal and Pulitzer Prize winning science writer Elizabeth Kolbert. Together, they dig into how the climate crisis is triggering ec ...  Show more

These days, with catastrophe after catastrophe, it can be easy to turn to despair and to believe that there is nothing we can do. But writer Rebecca Solnit is determined to change that narrative. Over the course of her career, Solnit has published twenty-five books on feminism, p ...  Show more

Sarah goes to St. Patrick's Cathedral to light a candle for this season of Salt Lake (almost gone, but not forgotten). Inspired by the first snowfall to hit NYC in what feels like decades, she builds herself a snow-set (a better job than that shipwreck, and easier to melt) and ...

It's an EmMajority Report Thursday! Today she speaks with Dr. Eviane Leidig, postdoctoral fellow at the Tilburg University, to discuss her recent book The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization. Then, she speaks with Kate Wagner, architecture c ...  Show more