Brooke Gladstone

Brooke talks to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors about the movement's future and broader mission.

November is coming, and with it, polling data. We revisit Nate Silver’s discussion about the importance of reading polls with a critical eye.

Why people believe what they want to believe, despite the facts. 

For many on the Left, Trump's popularity merely confirms their assumptions about those other people in America. And this may be the most dangerous lie of all.

Kicking off our deep dive into deception with a taxonomy of the political lie.

The first rule of Clone Club is: we talk a lot about Clone Club.

People freaked out about a surge in Brits Googling questions about the EU after Brexit. It's not true.

How Boris Johnson helped set the template for EU-bashing in British media more than 20 years ago, when he was a reporter. 

We all know that dark money in politics warps our democracy, but it may be operating closer to home than you think.

A single genetically-modified mosquito could eradicate malaria, but who should get to decide the fate of ecosystems shared by billions?

Algorithm-based risk assessment software wasn't originally intended for use in criminal sentencing, but that’s exactly how it’s being used now -- with dubious accuracy.

The media tend only to focus on guns in the wake of a violent crime, failing to portray the fact that the majority of gun owners will never do harm. 

Another struggle over gun control reinforces the disconnect between those who are pro- and anti- gun. The media's ignorance of basic gun facts doesn't help.

The shootings in Orlando became a political talking point almost immediately. Is this the wrong response? 

The attack in Orlando has reignited the debate over whether or not to use the words "radical Islam." Why the semantic debate matters.

One of the questions driving media coverage after the Orlando shootings has been: how is this massacre to be viewed?

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

What a prisoner of ISIS can teach us about the challenges confronting intrepid chroniclers of war.

The brother of Kitty Genovese tracks down some of the witnesses to his sister's infamous death in an attempt to get 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."