Brooke Gladstone

How do you cover a place that's almost impossible to visit?

How the fight over the true identity of William Shakespeare reflects shifting perceptions of culture, class, genius, art, and... ourselves. 

Staging Shakespeare's Love's Labors Lost in Kabul as a celebration of hope and a form of therapy.

Brooke Gladstone talks with deputy White House press secretary Eric Schultz about Obama's plans for the next month, and why he's forging ahead with his usual civility.

With less than four weeks left of the Obama administration, we ask experts what the President should do about Guantanamo, surveillance, dark money, and other important problems. 

One physicist's definition: "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

Has the US government opened the door to a taxpayer-funded Trump TV?

What we know about Russian interference in the US election and what is left to find out.

Differing conclusions about Russian involvement in the US election are just the latest example of the longstanding friction between the FBI and CIA.

Voice of America is the largest US international broadcaster. But is it propaganda?

Changes to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure went into effect last week without debate or discussion in Congress. Did you notice?

A bizarre conspiracy theory has been making its way from reddit and YouTube to the mainstream media.

In our precedent-breaking era, is it better to use imagination or apply judgement based on research and history when choosing what to cover?

When ideas are fraught, so is word choice.

A cognitive linguist argues that normalizing Trump is inevitable, unless the media rethink a couple basic rules of journalism.

The journalist Masha Gessen recently wrote "Autocracy: Rules for Survival" based on experiences from Putin's Russia and elsewhere. She discusses prospects for journalism and language.

The brother of Kitty Genovese tracks down some of the witnesses to his sister's infamous death in an attempt to retrieve the whole story of her life.

"History is about the past. Memory is about how we use the past for the purposes of the present."

How to sort the truthful from the troublesome.