Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure
Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” and invented a new field within psychology to name the reality that every loss does not hold a promise of anything like resolution. Amid this pandemic,...
View Article"This is Fine"
As climate catastrophe marches apace and the nation's public health infrastructure continues to unravel, we take stock of how we got here and what it might be like to look back on this year in the...
View ArticlePolitics with Amy Walter: The Path to November
This week, President Trump renewed his commitment to questioning the integrity of our election system and the Senate left town on Thursday without reaching an agreement on a new stimulus bill, leaving...
View ArticleThe Path to November
This week, President Trump renewed his commitment to questioning the integrity of our election system and the Senate left town on Thursday without reaching an agreement on a new stimulus bill, leaving...
View ArticlePolitics with Amy Walter: In Pursuit of a Coronavirus Vaccine
While many countries have curbed their total number of coronavirus cases, the US has recorded more than four and a half million, and more than 160,000 deaths. Inadequate national leadership has caused...
View ArticleHas the Media Gotten Better at Covering Female Politicians?
On Tuesday, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. While it’s only been a couple of days since Biden announced his choice for VP,...
View ArticleWhose Convention Resonated Best?
Over the last two weeks, both the Republican and Democratic parties have proposed their visions for America and they could not be more different.President Trump used his primetime speech to convince...
View ArticleThis Ain't Your Usual Horse Race
We're accustomed to horse race-style coverage of polls, fundraising, ad buys and strategy in the Septembers and Octobers before presidential elections. Sure, such reporting has tended to overshadow...
View ArticleAmerica Are We Ready To Vote In A Pandemic?
We asked voters around the country how they're planning to vote this year, and whether they trust the system to count their votes.On Today's Show:This year especially, there's not one "Election Day":...
View ArticleBlock The Vote
This story was co-published with ProPublica. Sign up for email updates from Trump, Inc. to get the latest on our investigations.President Trump likes talking about voter fraud. He also likes filing...
View ArticlePolitics with Amy Walter: What's Next for Amy Coney Barrett's SCOTUS...
On Saturday, President Trump nominated 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat. If confirmed, conservative Judge Barrett would become the...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend, 30 Issues: Legal Immigration; America in a...
This week, three segments from our "30 Issues in 30 Days" series, in case you missed them. Legal Immigration (First) | America in a Post-Pandemic World (Starts at 26:25)| The Future of Childcare...
View ArticleHow To Tell Voter Suppression From Standard Election Chaos
It's a pretty atypical election year, which means that things won't look like they usually do when you cast your ballot. But how can we spot voter suppression this pandemic election?On Today's...
View Article[Unedited] John Biewen with Krista Tippett
The U.S. election will be over soon but this year has surfaced deep human challenges that remain our callings — and possibilities for growth — for the foreseeable future. So this week and next, we’re...
View ArticleImprecision 2020
For election night 2020, while cable news had white boards and talking heads, the OTM crew hosted comedians, singers and friends for some great conversation with occasional updates on what was...
View ArticleThe Next President of the United States
Not immediately knowing which candidate won the White House has long been a reality of a world changed by COVID-19. What campaigns, pundits, and pollsters failed to predict was the distance that would...
View ArticlePolitics with Amy Walter: The Next President of the United States
Not immediately knowing which candidate won the White House has long been a reality of a world changed by COVID-19. What campaigns, pundits, and pollsters failed to predict was the distance that would...
View ArticleJoe Biden Wins Presidency
All week, election results have trickled in from across the country. With just a few states outstanding, Vice President Joe Biden has surpassed the 270 threshold of electoral votes to win the race for...
View ArticleAmerica After The Election: A Call-In Special
It's the end -- or almost the end -- of the 2020 election season. The race has been called for Joe Biden, but President Trump has been reticent to concede. His campaign has filed numerous lawsuits,...
View ArticleYou're Fired
As the Trump campaign wages a haphazard legal campaign against the rightful outcome of the 2020 election, the Trump administration is working to remake the federal bureaucracy.• Adam Klasfeld is a...
View ArticleFreshman Conversation: Representative-Elect Mondaire Jones, NY-17
Mondaire Jones is the Congressman-elect for New York’s 17 Congressional District. Jones, a Democrat, launched a primary challenge to incumbent Congresswoman Nita Lowey in July 2019 but in October Lowey...
View ArticleFreshman Conversation: Representative-Elect Carolyn Bourdeaux, GA-7
Carolyn Bourdeaux is the Congresswoman-elect for Georgia’s 7th Congressional District, flipping the district from red to blue. Bordeaux originally ran for the seat back in 2018 but she lost to the...
View ArticleFreshman Conversation: Representative-Elect Marilyn Strickland, WA-10
Marilyn Strickland is the Representative-elect for Washington’s 10th Congressional District. Washington has a top-two primary system that pitted Strickland, a self-described center-left Democrat,...
View Article[Unedited] Agustín Fuentes with Krista Tippett
We’ve realized in 2020 that the way we’ve organized culture — from the economy to race to work — could be done radically differently. We’ve been modeling our life together on “survival of the fittest”...
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2020. It's Been a Year.
If there were ever a time to utter the phrase “It’s been one hell of a year!” … this is it. A presidential election, cries for justice in the streets, and — of course — an entire pandemic has made 2020...
View ArticleFreshman Conversation: Representative-Elect Ritchie Torres, NY-15
New York's 15th congressional district in the South Bronx has been called the poorest and bluest congressional district in America. Ritchie Torres, who served for seven years on the New York City...
View ArticleA Timeline of 2020 Through Brian Lehrer Show Callers
After five years of working at The Brian Lehrer Show, I’ve become acutely aware of the power of the call-in segment. The wisdom goes: If Brian asks it, someone will call in with an answer. We’ve heard...
View ArticleFreshman Conversation: Representative-Elect Nicole Malliotakis, NY-11
Nicole Malliotakis is one of a record number of Republican women who were elected to Congress this fall. She defeated first-term Democratic Congressman Max Rose in New York’s 11th Congressional...
View ArticleFinding Hope and Resilience in 2020
We’re almost at the end of 2020 and it’s been quite a traumatic year. And even though people are starting to get the vaccine now, by many estimations, we still have a long way to go before life goes...
View ArticleUpended - The 2020 Look Back Special
What if after the craziest year on record somebody asked you… “what happened?” The Snap team spoke to some of the people that changed our world in 2020 to see if their stories have a part II.BIG thanks...
View ArticleLooking Back at an Impossible Year, Plus Music from Andrew Bird
To close the year, we’ll hear four short reflections on the unimaginable events of 2020. Dhruv Khullar recalls the early days of the pandemic from inside a COVID-19 ward, Anna Wiener visits a...
View ArticleLooking Back at an Unimaginable Year
It’s a cliché now, but by no means an overstatement, that the past twelve months have been unimaginable. This week, we’ll hear four short reflections on the events of 2020. Dhruv Khullar describes the...
View ArticleThe Year Of The Virus
As this horrid year ends, we review our coverage of the pandemic, including: 1. Alexis Madrigal, on the first drip of what became a torrent of confusion about the novel coronavirus. (January 31,...
View Article2020 In Review, Charismatic Tubeworms, Dog Evolution. Dec 25, 2020, Part 1
2020: The Year In Science, With Wendy ZukermanIt’s the end of the year, and time to reflect. While there’s no doubt the coronavirus and efforts to combat it led the science pages this year, there was...
View ArticleLooking Back at an Unimaginable Year
It’s a cliché now, but by no means an overstatement, that the past twelve months have been unimaginable. This week, we’ll hear four short reflections on the events of 2020. Dhruv Khullar describes the...
View ArticleWNYC's Time Capsule Call-In Special
No one expected this year to look the way it did. The pandemic has upended our lives. Racial injustices continue to fill us with outrage and shame. Presidential politics are testing the strength of our...
View ArticleMonaea, a 2020 Diary - Snap Spotlights "VICE News Reports"
2020 has been a YEAR, and Monaea Upton has a lot to say about it. This week we bring you an episode from the podcast Vice News Reports. Vice sent 17-year-old Monaea Upton a recorder and she’s been...
View ArticleHighlights From 2020
It may now be 2021, we are not quite done with 2020 on the Young Artists Showcase. Tonight, we will hear highlights from broadcasts throughout the last year, focusing in particular on works further off...
View ArticleThe Joint Chiefs Of Staff War-Gamed Against A Possible Trump Coup Attempt
We've learned a lot more about Trump's insurrection in the months since it happened. But we didn't know how far his military advisors went to avoid a constitutional crisis.On Today's Show:The...
View ArticlePhilip Montgomery's 'American Mirror' Photo Book
2020 was a year of upheaval. Photographer Philip Montgomery was there to capture it all on film, from Black Lives Matter protests, to hospitals full of COVID-19 patients, to portraits of those...
View Article[Unedited] Jane Hirshfield with Krista Tippett
The esteemed writer Jane Hirshfield has been a Zen monk and a visiting artist among neuroscientists. She has said this: “It’s my nature to question, to look at the opposite side. I believe that the...
View ArticleAn International Insurgency Expert Looks Home
"Everybody thought their civil war was unique," Barbara F. Walter writes in her new book, How Civil Wars Start: And How To Stop Them. "So no one saw the risk factors that emerged again and again no...
View ArticleBill Kristol Reckons with 'Stop the Steal'-ers
Bill Kristol is one of the most ubiquitous conservative commentators of the past two decades. The magazine he founded and edited, The Weekly Standard, was often described as the Neocon bible. But after...
View ArticleIsabel Wilkerson — "We all know in our bones that things are harder than they...
In this rich, expansive, and warm conversation between friends, Krista draws out the heart for humanity behind Isabel Wilkerson's eye on histories we are only now communally learning to tell — her...
View ArticleTrump’s Jan. 6th Indictment, and the Government’s Burden of Proof, Explained
Yesterday, Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith released a 45-page, 4-count indictment against former President Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. On Today's Show:Andrew...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: How 2020 Changed Us; The AIDS Epidemic & the Black...
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.How 2020 Changed Us; (First) | The AIDS Epidemic and Black Communities (Starts at 33:20) | In Praise of Deep Friendship (Starts...
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