In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Omar Wasow, assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. Our hosts Matt and Katie debate (or as Matt describes it, “I decided to pick a fight with Katie”) the shifting attitudes of …
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In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Ani DiFranco. The singer-songwriter shares how she turned the raps, poems, and songs of incarcerated writers into a collaborative album, Prison Music Project. “Should you listen to this record start to finish, I …
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True crime media is shifting toward advocacy. The hosts of My Favorite Murder urge listeners to donate to End the Backlog, a nonprofit demanding the timely testing of rape kits by law enforcement, and Ashley Flowers from Crime Junkie is on the board of directors for Crime Stoppers of Central …
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This isn’t the first episodic true-crime podcast of its kind, but it’s earned five stars from almost10,000 listenersfor a reason. Every Monday, Indianapolis-based hosts Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat examine a new case, often one that’s unsolved or underreported. The women’s rapport — they’ve been close friends since childhood — …
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