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From relentless campaigning to snubs and speeches, the Academy Awards have often reflected a cultural conflict zone. Michael Schulman discusses the controversies. Originally broadcast Feb. 22, 2023.

Biographer Peter Guralnick paints a surprising portrait of Presley's long-time manager, Col. Tom Parker: "He had nothing whatsoever to do with the music other than to defend Elvis' choices."

Abrahm Lustgarten says the undermining of science, and cuts to FEMA and NOAA, at a time when erratic weather is making disasters more common, should be "extraordinarily concerning" to us.

Historian Mary Ziegler talks about the legal battles shaping reproductive rights across the U.S. — including the scope of abortion access and the fate of invitro-fertilization.

Author Scott Eyman explains how Chaplin was smeared in the press, condemned for his alleged communist ties and banned from returning to the U.S. Originally broadcast Oct. 24, 2024.

In Bad Law, Elie Mystal argues that our country's laws on immigration, abortion and voting rights don't reflect the will of most Americans, and we'd be better off abolishing them and starting over.

Memoirist and executive Daria Burke grew up in 1980s Detroit amid addiction and instability. She spent years trying to outrun that past by building a carefully curated, outwardly successful life.

Goodall, who died Oct. 1, became one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century for her work observing chimpanzees in the wild in East Africa. Originally broadcast in 1993 and 1999.

The Atlantic journalist David A. Graham describes how Trump could potentially use troops near polling places, pressure local election workers and have federal agents seize voting machines.

President Trump is deploying National Guard troops to U.S. cities, erasing "woke" in the military and striking alleged drug boats off Venezuela. The Atlantic's Nancy Youssef discusses what this means.