Buttery Goodness

hey tucker, pass the ranch

View this email in your browser Dear Newsliterature,  By now you've likely heard of Rutger Bregman, the Dutch historian who went to this year's Davos summit to dunk on a bunch of billionaires for tax avoidance and climate hypocrisy. Well, the internet was treated to a second round of Bregman-style catharsis yesterday when his confrontational, un-aired interview with Fox's Tucker Carlson finally saw the light of day. No summary can do it justice so you'll just have to watch it for yourself. It's also hard to describe just how intently and joyfully that video was consumed at OTM HQ. That's why we posted this pup to Twitter: And we should add: This isn't the first you've seen of Bob and Brooke in GIF form.........  Onward. Listen To The Latest Show: Bad Reputation [ In Case You Missed It ] Lorena, Revisited The 90s imprinted certain perceptions about ambitious, raging women on our collective imaginations. Some of those women — Monica Lewinsky, Tonya Harding — have been "revisited" over the past few years, reinterpreted with a contemporary lens showing what we all missed in the moment. Last week we examined what we misunderstood about Lorena Bobbitt, with the help of documentarian Joshua Rofé and Lorena herself. Listen here.  [ Do With This What You Will ] [ Listen To This ] 23 Weeks, 6 Days The President recently said some very wrong things about abortion. He was talking about later abortions, those after the first trimester, and there's already a lot of misleading rhetoric around those procedures. This week, The Cut On Tuesdays podcast features the story of a woman, Laura, who learned there was a serious complication when she was five months pregnant. Her story is specific and heartbreaking, but she's not alone. Research suggests that women who get an abortion later in their pregnancy don't just change their mind on a whim, they usually find out that there's something wrong with the fetus or that carrying the pregnancy to term would compromise their lives. And when you hear Laura's story, you'll get a sense of how difficult that decision is and how limits on legal abortion can make it even more difficult. Listen here.  [ Check This Out ] Rewriting the West There's a lot of discussion about the US-Mexico border these days. But how do we understand that border? And what border is it? And who is the "we" doing all this "understanding"? The magazine Guernica has a poignant collection of essays in a series called "Rewriting the West," all by Latino writers. As guest editor Michelle García puts it: "We write the West by relocating it at the center of its own history, looking at the people who live in this region as the protagonists instead of the 'others,' revealing a far more expansive image of this place." There's a lot to read and process here, including Fernanda Santos' piece on citizenship and a rethinking of the state of Arizona. Don't miss it.  [ Podcast Extra ] When 20,000 Nazis Gathered in New York While the Nazis were building concentration camps, the German-American Bund held pro-Hitler retreats and summer camps across the United States. Yesterday, February 20th, marks the 80th anniversary of the Bund's most notorious event. 20,000 of its members gathered at Madison Square Garden for a "Pro-American Rally" featuring speeches and performances, staged in front of a 30-foot-high portrait of George Washington. The rally is the subject of a new, Oscar-nominated documentary short "A Night at The Garden" by filmmaker Marshall Curry. In this OTM podcast extra, Brooke talks with Curry about how the film's themes resonate today and how a 30-second broadcast spot has had a media moment of its own. Listen here. [ From the Archives ] The Messaging War on Single-Payer Healthcare Bernie is in, and so the battle to say the scariest possible thing about socialism is on. About two years ago, when one such boogeyman, the notion of "Medicare for All," was gaining prominence in policy discussions, Bob spoke with Jill Quadagno — author of One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance — about the past hundred years of scorched-earth lobbying against expansive healthcare programs. It's a conversation worth revisiting! [ Coming Up... ] The future of media is live, interactive, and twitchy weird.  Thanks for listening, and for reading. We love feedback, so please contact us with any questions or comments. We're busy, but we read them all, promise.  DONATE TO OTM

This email was sent to loriwantsrss@gmail.com why did I get this?    unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences New York Public Radio · 160 Varick St · New York, NY 10013 · USA