Brooke Gladstone appears in the following:
The Rise and Fall of Tax Reform
Friday, December 08, 2017
Last week, the Senate pushed through a convoluted 500-page tax bill. Historian Molly Michelmore says this anti-tax frenzy has been a long time coming.
Sexual Harassment and Realpolitik in the Senate
Friday, December 08, 2017
Democrats and Republicans appear to be playing by two different sets of rules when it comes to sexual assault allegations.
A Reckoning in Our Own House: John Hockenberry and Harassment
Monday, December 04, 2017
WNYC's Brooke Gladstone, Jami Floyd, Brian Lehrer and Shumita Basu will be on the radio live tonight at 8pm to talk about sexual harassment allegations at NYPR and across the nation.
Net Neutrality: Done Deal, Open Question
Friday, December 01, 2017
Bob is joined by former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief of Reason.com, to debate the FCC's upcoming vote on net neutrality.
Reality Intolerant
Friday, December 01, 2017
Brooke chews on the ever-loosening relationship with reality in America and abroad.
Public Comment Is Broken
Friday, December 01, 2017
How the rise of bots is giving officials cover to ignore citizens.
America's History of Hoaxes and Popular Delusion
Friday, December 01, 2017
America may not have invented fakery but one of its first celebrities, PT Barnum, helped perfect it.
"Solastalgia," and Other Words for Our Changing World
Friday, November 24, 2017
The distress caused by environmental change needs its own term, and so do other new phenomena in the Anthropocene.
Kim Stanley Robinson on Our Future Cities
Friday, November 24, 2017
How we're currently "living in a science fiction story we're writing together."
The Desert Reasserts Itself
Friday, November 24, 2017
In a novel by Claire Vaye Watkins, a growing sand dune is threatening the Southwest. What can we learn from it?
When Science Fiction Isn't Fiction
Friday, November 24, 2017
Author Jeff VanderMeer has been called the "weird Thoreau" for his nature-inspired science fiction. But what's sci-fi when the future of the planet is unpredictable?
Bracing for the Backlash
Friday, November 17, 2017
As the list of men accused of sexual harassment and assault grows, some fear that a backlash is imminent. What to expect and how to do better.
What About Bill?
Friday, November 17, 2017
When Juanita Broaddrick first accused President Bill Clinton of sexual assault, the media dismissed her. Maybe they shouldn't have.
When Bad People Make Good Art
Friday, November 17, 2017
When a cultural figure is revealed to be an abuser, is it possible to separate the art from the artist?
Rebecca Traister on the #MeToo Moment
Friday, November 17, 2017
Amid the flood of sexual harassment allegations against powerful men, what are we reconsidering about our own lives and careers?
#MeToo in Middle America
Friday, November 17, 2017
The #MeToo movement has taken coastal communities by storm, but little attention has been paid to its influence in working-class and middle America.
Sexual Harassment, Revisited
Friday, October 27, 2017
Have we finally reached a turning point in the long fight against sexual harassment?
What the JFK Conspiracy Theories Say About Us
Friday, October 27, 2017
Some previously classified documents about the JFK assassination were released this week. After over 50 years, the unanswered questions still gnaw at Americans.
I Can't Breathe
Friday, October 27, 2017
A new book by Matt Taibbi explores what the life and death of Eric Garner can teach us about policing, our justice system, and America's ongoing struggle to deal with race.
Beware the "Adults in the Room"
Friday, October 13, 2017
Although we're assured that they provide a moderating influence on President Trump, why we should be wary of the so-called "adults in the room."
