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S8 E6: What Could Have Been
Jun 24, 2026
Unknown duration
S8 E5: Follow the Money
Jun 17, 2026
Unknown duration
S8 E4: What About Us
Jun 10, 2026
43m 55s
S8 E3: About that Liberal Media
Jun 3, 2026
52m 33s
S8 E2: When the News Dies
May 27, 2026
48m 21s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 |  S8 E6: What Could Have Been | Ever thought about whether America's overwhelmingly corporate, for-profit news system is working as it should? It didn't have to be this way. In the 20th century, reformers fought for a more democratic and more accountable news media in the United States. They won victories, including the creation of the nation's public broadcasting system. What happened next? By John Biewen, with co-host Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with John Lowery, Dan Schiller, Victor Pickard, and Mark Lloyd. Story editor: Diane Hodson. Assistant Producer, Arlene Arevalo. Fact-checking by Anna Pujol Mazzini. Music by Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band, Michelle Osis, Lili Haydn, Alex Weston, James Nathan Jones, and Jason Hill. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 6/17/26 |  S8 E5: Follow the Money | The early history of the news in Europe and the U.S. offers surprising lessons about the best traditions of journalism, and about the news we need in our own time of crisis. By John Biewen, with co-host Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Pascal Verhoest, Rachael King, Joseph Adelman, and Victor Pickard. Story editor: Diane Hodson. Assistant Producer, Arlene Arevalo. Fact-checking by Anna Pujol Mazzini. Music by Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band, Michelle Osis, Lili Haydn, Alex Weston, James Nathan Jones, and Jason Hill. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. For more on the relationship between democracy and journalism in the U.S., see Victor Pickard's book, Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 6/10/26 |  S8 E4: What About Us✨ | journalistic biasmedia analysis+4 | Vanessa Otero | Ad Fontes MediaNarrative Music+2 | — | biasjournalism+5 | — | 43m 55s | |
| 6/3/26 |  S8 E3: About that Liberal Media✨ | media biaspolitics+4 | Michael MassingPeter Beinart+1 | Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke UniversityNarrative Music+1 | — | liberal medianews bias+4 | — | 52m 33s | |
| 5/27/26 |  S8 E2: When the News Dies✨ | journalismlocal news+4 | Penny Muse AbernathyMark DeLap+1 | Muck RackRebuild Local News+1 | North Carolina | journalism crisislocal news+4 | — | 48m 21s | |
| 5/27/26 |  S8 E1: The Myth of the Echo Chamber✨ | information crisisnews media+4 | Ethan JordanDannagal Young | Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke Universitysceneonradio.org+1 | — | news mediainformation crisis+5 | — | 40m 26s | |
| 5/20/26 |  Introducing Scene on Radio: The News✨ | American journalismmedia criticism+3 | — | Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke UniversityPRX | — | mediajournalism+5 | — | 2m 05s | |
| 5/13/26 |  Guest Episode: Drilled: Carbon Cowboys✨ | climate changedisinformation+4 | Amy Westervelt | Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke UniversityPushkin+1 | North DakotaBrazil | climate solutionscarbon cowboys+3 | — | 28m 54s | |
| 5/6/26 |  Guest Episode: Master Plan: The Kingmakers✨ | investigative journalismimperial presidency+3 | — | The LeverMaster Plan | Vietnam | imperial presidencyRichard Nixon+3 | — | 37m 56s | |
| 4/30/26 |  Guest Episode: More Muslim✨ | Cape Malay communitygentrification+3 | Aina Khan | More Muslim | Cape TownSouth Africa+1 | Cape Malaygentrification+3 | — | 44m 11s | |
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| 1/14/26 |  Proxy: Nicole Can't Stop Being Aggro✨ | angerorganizing+3 | Nicole | Proxy | — | anger managementactivism+3 | — | 50m 52s | |
| 10/22/25 |  Historical Maturity and Cowardice: Keeping ScOR #15✨ | historyreflection+3 | — | goodnight, LucasKeeping ScOR+2 | Mankato, Minnesota | historyMankato+3 | — | 14m 30s | |
| 10/9/25 |  Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders✨ | murderethics+3 | — | Revisionist History | Northwest Alabama | Alabama MurdersMalcolm Gladwell+3 | — | 34m 13s | |
| 8/6/25 |  Voices of Hiroshima✨ | Hiroshimaatomic bomb+4 | John Biewen | Minnesota Public RadioAmerican Public Media | Hiroshima | Hiroshimaatomic bomb+6 | — | 33m 37s | |
| 7/23/25 |  Lever Time: Trump, Colbert, And The War On Truth✨ | mediapolitics+4 | David Enrich | CBSNew York Times+1 | — | CBSStephen Colbert+5 | — | 39m 10s | |
| 5/14/25 |  Making Ignorance Sacred Again: Keeping ScOR #7✨ | politicshistory+4 | — | Trump Administrationgoodnight, Lucas+3 | Duke University | Trump Administrationnarrative control+5 | — | 15m 33s | |
| 3/18/25 |  The New Old Racism: Keeping ScOR#4✨ | racismwhiteness+4 | — | Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke UniversitySeeing White+1 | — | racismwhiteness+6 | — | 18m 27s | |
| 1/22/25 |  Bonus: Michael Kliën and the Body Politic✨ | social choreographydance+4 | Michael Kliën | Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke Universitygoodnight+1 | — | social changedance+4 | — | 34m 10s | |
| 12/11/24 |  S7 E13: CAPITALISM Bonus, Live at Motorco✨ | democratic economysociety+3 | Chenjerai Kumanyika | Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke UniversityCommunities in Partnership+1 | Motorco Music HallDurham, North Carolina | capitalismdemocracy+3 | — | 1h 11m 59s | |
| 11/21/24 |  Post-election '24 All-Star Special✨ | 2024 electionpolitics+3 | Celeste HeadleeChenjerai Kumanyika+2 | Scene on RadioKenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University | — | 2024 electionDonald Trump+3 | — | 1h 20m 23s | |
| 9/18/24 |  S7 E12: Reimagined Economies✨ | capitalismeconomics+3 | John FullertonAnder Etxeberria+6 | Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke UniversityImperative 21 | — | capitalismeconomics+5 | — | 1h 03m 12s | |
| 9/4/24 |  S7 E11: Better Capitalism? | In the first of two episodes looking at responses to capitalism’s failings, we explore reforms aimed at making the current economic system more humane, fair, effective, and sustainable. By John Biewen with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Lutz Schwenke, Jordi Llatje i Espinal, Marjorie Kelly, Oren Cass, Jayati Ghosh, John Fullerton, and Rick Alexander. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Chris Westlake, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. "Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 8/21/24 |  S7 E10: The Extracted | A visit to West Africa and Western Europe to look at the cocoa trade. Did the colonial side of early capitalism – Western countries getting rich at the expense of poorer nations – ever change, or does it continue today? Reported by Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo and written by Ugochi and Loretta Williams, with co-hosts John Biewen and Ellen McGirt. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Mixed by John Biewen. Interviews with Achike Chude, Chernoh Bah, Bart Van Besien, and others. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Chris Westlake, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. "Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 8/14/24 |  S7 E9: At the Tipping Point | In 1972, a team of young scientists at MIT published a study exploring what would happen to human civilization if people kept pursuing endless economic growth on a finite planet. They weren’t just disbelieved, they were ridiculed. The story of Donella Meadows and The Limits to Growth.Reported and produced by Katy Shields and Vegard Beyer, with co-hosts John Biewen and Ellen McGirt. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Archival audio of Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Aurelio Peccei, Jay Forrester, and others. Interviewee: John Fullerton.Original music by Nora Beyer. Additional music by Michelle Osis and Lili Haydn. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. "Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 8/7/24 |  S7 E8: The People's Pushback | S7 E8: The People’s Pushback Over several decades, a growing number of people in the United States and elsewhere – especially younger people – have turned against capitalism. The reasons are not mysterious. Reported by Lewis Raven Wallace and produced by John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Esteban Kelly, Josh Bivens, Malaika Jibali, and Evan Caldwell. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Chris Westlake, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. "Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
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27 placements across 27 markets.