How Podcasts in 2022 Tuned In to America’s Legacy of Rage and Radicalism

Back in early 2021, as a podcast producer, I spent Wednesdays tracking the week’s newsiest topics for our end-of-week episode. On the first Wednesday of January, I was sitting at the kitchen table in my Brooklyn apartment, laptop plugged in in front of me, one tab open to the script in progress, and the other opened to my Twitter feed, keeping an eye out for incoming fodder. I remember the first tweets popping up, reporting live as the situation unfolded: A violent mob was pushing its way into the Capitol. While real-time tweets likened the scene to The Handmaid’s Tale,… Read Full Article