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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news A few weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, the Director of the FBI said , “Our most immediate concern is that violent extremists—individuals or small groups—will draw inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks against Americans going about their daily lives. That includes...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Many journalists, university professors, and Democrats say we must change how we think about the First Amendment for the Internet age. Maybe the government had no role in regulating speech before there existed social media platforms like X and Facebook, where “peer-to-peer misinformation” thrives. But now, given the thre...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Europeans are free to speak their mind as they wish, most of them believe. They can express their views on controversial political and social issues on social media platforms from Facebook to X. But all of that may soon change. Europe is implementing the Digital Services Act, which is using the exact same censorship syst...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Google CEO Sundar Pichai today addressed the public upset with its AI chatbot, Gemini, for its political bias. “I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly Bard),” he wrote. I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias—to be clear,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Last year, Google CEO Sundar Pinchai went on a media offensive to reassure the public and policymakers that he was being responsible with Artificial Intelligence, or AI. “You will see us be bold and ship things,” he told the New York Times in March, “but we are going to be very responsible in how we do it.” But the AI pr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Politicians and activists alike have warned of a looming climate catastrophe for decades. “Biden urged to declare climate change a national emergency,” reported NBC last year . “Climate Changes Threatens Every Facet of U.S. Society, Federal Report Warns,” announced Scientific American . Cambridge University climate scien...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news On Monday, Alex Gutentag and I reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is misrepresenting the location of the alleged bomb allegedly found at the Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters on January 5, 2021, and that little about the alleged bomb scare makes any sense. Today, I sat down with Briahn...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In 2020, progressives rode a wave of righteous anger toward what many believed would be decisive and lasting change. The pandemic ensured a captive audience; America could no longer look away. So why did a year that saw the largest combined protests in the history of this country fail to deliver substantive change, let a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Rob Henderson is a writer and academic perhaps best known for popularizing the concept of “ luxury beliefs .” Over the past several years, he’s become an influential commentator, both in mainstream media and with his own Substack. Now, he has a much-anticipated book coming out from a major publisher. “ Troubled: A Memoir...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Last week, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused pro-Palestinian protesters who demonstrated outside her San Francisco home of being Russian stooges. She even urged the FBI to investigate them. Obviously, the FBI can’t legally investigate an allegation for which there is zero evidence. And to be clear, Pelosi offered zero...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Rope, not the wind industry, killed the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale found dead last Monday, claim scientific organizations , the US government, and the news media. “This case highlights the ongoing threat right whales and other whale species have been facing from fishing gear entanglements for decade...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Have you ever heard of the “Five Eyes” nations? I confess that I hadn’t until I started covering censorship and other governmental abuses of power last year. But it turns out to be something really important. The Five Eyes refers to intelligence agencies in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, which have colla...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In 2010, the family of Monica Harris’s partner held a reunion in southeastern Montana. “She says, ‘Hey, babe, would you ever want to go?’ And I don't know about you, but Montana was one of these places that had always been on my bucket list. It's Big Sky country, you know? So I said, ‘Sure, let's go. And we were there fo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news “People get fat because they eat too many calories.” “A calorie is a calorie.” “Saturated fats are bad.” America’s leading dietary experts, the US government, and food manufacturers agreed on the above for decades. During that time, rates of overweight, obesity, and diabetes skyrocketed. Either the experts are wrong or p...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The US Department of Justice has charged over 1,200 people with federal crimes related to the January 6, 2021 riot. In order to convict those individuals, the DOJ has relied heavily on 14,000 hours of surveillance video as well as cell phone data, some of which somebody leaked to the New York Times. “The data we were giv...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For more than 30 years, progressives and conservatives have differed over how to think about mentally ill homeless people. Progressives have argued that the fundamental problem is the lack of funding for mental health services, while conservatives have argued that the problem is the unwillingness of progressives to manda...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news If you watch the mainstream media, you might think that what happened on January 6th, 2021 was a coup attempt. But what if that’s not at all what happened? The dictionary definition of a coup is a “violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.” There’s no doubt that the chaos on January 6 wa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Did you see what happened last Monday night after Donald Trump won a landslide victory in Iowa? Rachel Maddow announced that MSNBC would not be covering Trump’s victory speech, and CNN cut away after just a few minutes of it. Why was that?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Imagine for a moment that you wanted to seize control over the Internet and put in place a system of mass censorship worldwide. How would you do it? You wouldn’t advertise your intentions. You’d hide them. You’d claim there was a rise in hate speech and misinformation and that it was hurting vulnerable people. You wouldn...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news There are a lot of scary charts and graphs out there. Like this one, which shows learning loss during covid lockdowns. Or this one, which shows the increase in illicit drug deaths over the last twenty years. Or this one, which shows the spike in illegal border crossings. But this chart is scarier than the others:

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Donald Trump cannot become president of the United States because he led an insurrection against the government on January 6, 2021, most experts and journalists agree. Republican primary voters and caucus-goers should choose a different candidate over Trump, they say. And if they don’t, then the courts should either keep...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Before 2016, when the wind industry’s increased boat traffic, sonar mapping, and construction began, eight humpback whales were found dead per year between Virginia and Maine . Since 2016, an average of 25 humpbacks were found dead annually. And last year, there were a record 83 whales found dead. And yet the Associated...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news We tend to think of censorship as a violation of the rights of the censored. And it is that, of course. But censorship creates other victims we give less consideration to: the millions who are denied the chance to hear the perspectives of those who are silenced. In totalitarian societies, censors deny the public the oppo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Most days, we get up and think everything’s fine. We are alive, we are housed, and we are members of society we call a nation. Within the borders of that nation, we don’t let foreigners poison our children. But we do let foreigners poison our children. Last year, foreigners, with the help of their American business partn...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Right-wing activists are responsible for the resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, say mainstream news media organizations. “Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism,” read the Associated Press headline. Politico attributed Gay’s resignation to a “conserv...