2026-09-10 · Future-gazing
The Holiday From History is Over
by Brian Stewart
How did the world's richest nations convince themselves that military power no longer mattered?
0:00 / 16:31 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-09-02 · Smart escape
‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ at 35
by Sonny Bunch
Does a movie belong to the director who keeps changing it, or the audience who remembers it?
0:00 / 8:59 · Narrator Algieba
2026-09-01 · Behind the news
Postliberalism is Not About Economic Transformation
by Matt McManus
0:00 / 30:29 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-08-29 · Behind the news
The Pentagon’s Uniquely Positioned Newspaper—and Why It Should Stay That Way
by Mark Hertling
If troops know things are bad, what happens when their own newspaper says everything is fine?
0:00 / 12:54 · Narrator Algieba
2026-08-25 · Smart escape
‘Tony’ Review
by Sonny Bunch
How does a lying college student find grace in the back of a restaurant kitchen?
0:00 / 10:37 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-08-09 · Behind the news
When the Deployment Doesn’t End
by Mark Hertling
How do you face a room full of angry military families when a deployment doesn't end?
0:00 / 8:19 · Narrator Algieba
2026-07-13 · Smart escape
The Endangered Big Screen Comedy
by Sonny Bunch
If comedies that once filled theaters are vanishing, where will people go to laugh in the dark?
0:00 / 9:37 · Narrator Algieba
2026-07-10 · Behind the news
The Pentagon is Too Fixated on China
by Mark Hertling
Can a superpower keep its balance if it treats every other crisis as a distraction?
0:00 / 10:32 · Narrator Charon
2026-07-04 · For the curious
Still Radical, Still American
by Joshua Zeitz
Why does a nation built on the rejection of hierarchy seem so eager to return to it?
0:00 / 23:01 · Narrator Charon
2026-07-04 · Behind the news
Character Matters—for the Other Party
by Joe Perticone
Why does a candidate’s character only seem to matter when they belong to the other party?
0:00 / 11:55 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-06-28 · Behind the news
What Happens When the Country Loses a General
by Mark Hertling
If it takes thirty years to grow a general, what is lost when that experience disappears overnight?
0:00 / 12:22 · Narrator Algieba
2026-06-21 · For the curious
Juneteenth: ‘The Day of Freedom Came’
by Booker T. Washington et al.
When the shouting and the singing stop, how do you carry the sudden weight of being free?
0:00 / 15:31 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-06-05 · Behind the news
The Cancer Research Machine Trump is Gutting Just Delivered a Big Breakthrough
by Jonathan Cohn
0:00 / 56:32 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-06-03 · Behind the news
Sometimes Stopping Extremism Means Getting Your Hands Dirty
by Matt Dallek
Can a civil rights organization truly defend democracy by spying on its opponents?
0:00 / 12:19 · Narrator Algieba
2026-06-01 · Future-gazing
Hollywood’s About to Change (Again)
by Sonny Bunch
When does a new generation decide what movies are supposed to be?
0:00 / 8:48 · Narrator Charon