We Live On Zoom Now – And That Might Be a Problem
Since many of us have retreated to our homes in the past month, we’ve been connected to each other mostly through our screens. Work meetings, dinners, catch-ups with old friends, classes, religious...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Young Poll Workers Needed, How To Work Out Relatively...
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.(Young) Poll Workers Needed (First) | How to Work Out Relatively Safely in the Gym (starts at 24:35) | Technology and Human...
View ArticleFixing Big Tech
Big Tech is watching us, plugging our behaviors into hidden algorithms and then serving up a digital experience customized just for us. It's a little... creepy. But it's more than that, according to...
View ArticleHow the Kennedy Campaign Used Tech and Data
Jill Lepore, professor of American history at Harvard University, staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of many books, including These Truths: A History of the United States, and her latest, If...
View ArticleThe Future of Industry City; How Do Prosecutors Decide When to Convict Cops?;...
Coming up on today's show:Industry City has proposed a controversial rezoning of the complex to allow more offices, manufacturing and retail shops -- and City Council held a public hearing on it this...
View ArticleHow Real Journalism Gets Turned into Propaganda
Last weekend, the New York Times ran a story detailing a network of over one thousand "local news" websites with names like "North Cook News" and "DuPage Policy Journal." To the untrained eye, they...
View ArticleWhy Conservatives Are Leaving Facebook & Twitter
Last weekend, three right-wing apps — Parler, MeWe, and Newsmax — snagged the top three spots for free apps on the iPhone app store. Their sudden surge is part of a larger sociological phenomenon, a...
View ArticleHow the 1% Affect You
Cities and states have lost billions of dollars in combined tax revenues during the economic downturn, caused by the coronavirus pandemic. A change that the Trump administration made to the tax code a...
View ArticleThe Great Deplatforming
If incitement falls in the forest, and almost nobody can hear it, can it trigger insurrection? The whole world of Big Tech this week began seriously, systematically and almost universally answering...
View ArticleThe Digital Panopticon
Every Tuesday evening through May 4th, The Greene Space and the non-profit advocacy organization Worth Risesare holding virtual panel discussions about the business side of the prison industry, asking:...
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A New Way To Support The Podcasts You Love
Public radio podcast fans: There is a new way to show your support for the podcasts you love. Starting today, Spotify listeners can buy monthly subscriptions to access sponsor-free versions of five NPR...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the "Metaverse"
The next phase of the internet is years, maybe decades away, but Silicon Valley has already given it a name: the metaverse. Imagine putting on a virtual reality headset and stepping into a 3D, tangible...
View ArticleThe Fraught Promises of the Therapy App
This year, almost half of Americans reported experiencing substantial distress. According to a survey by OnePoll, nearly 17 percent of Americans sought out therapy for the first time during the...
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Support Your Favorite NPR Podcasts With Apple Podcasts Subscriptions
Starting today public radio podcast listeners can purchase subscriptions for individual shows through Apple subscriptions channels, making it easy to support their favorite NPR podcasts.Subscribers...
View ArticleAugust 3rd Marks Black Women's Equal Pay Day
Tuesday is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. It marks how far into the year Black women would need to work in order to equal the pay of non-Hispanic white men at the end of the previous year. Black women...
View ArticleNYC Tech Put To The Test As Schools Open
The pandemic has challenged the tech know-how of governments nationwide, but none more so than in New York City with its nine million residents. WNYC's Elizabeth Kim reports on the latest test, which...
View ArticleWhat the Removal of Navalny's Smart Voting App Means for Democracy Around the...
In the week leading up to elections for Russia's State Duma on September 17th-19th, the Russian government pressured Google and Apple to remove a "Smart Voting App" from their app stores. The Smart...
View ArticleDoes Social Media Turn Nice People Into Trolls?
Some of the studies leaked by the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen draw the conclusion that Facebook is altering people's psychological or mental states. But Michael Bang Petersen, a professor of...
View ArticleWorld Politics Roundup; Geo-Quiz: New Jersey; Andy Borowitz on Jane Goodall;...
Coming up on today's show:Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post columnist and author of Today's WorldView, the Post's international affairs newsletter, joins to talk about the latest in world news, including...
View Article8-Minute Explainer: Dion Rabouin on NFTs
For this membership drive, we'll feature a brief "explainer" on a different topic each day. Today, Dion Rabouin, Wall Street Journal reporter, explains what NFTs are and how they work as investment...
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