Podcast Dept.
What a Right-Wing Militia Sounds Like, from the Inside
“Chameleon: The Michigan Plot” is the latest podcast to show how extremist groups pair dangerous beliefs with an ordinary desire for community.
By Sarah Larson
Episode 4: Hostage
Latifa was captured and returned to Dubai. Secret recordings shed light on her desperate fate.
With Madeleine Baran and Heidi Blake
Episode 3: A Nice Lunch
Aboard a yacht in the Arabian Sea, Latifa was briefly free. Then commandos stormed the boat.
With Madeleine Baran and Heidi Blake
Episode 2: Escape
After Princess Shamsa was caught trying to flee her father, Princess Latifa decided to make her own attempt.
With Madeleine Baran and Heidi Blake
Episode 1: Sisters
Why the daughters of the ruler of Dubai decided to escape his control.
With Madeleine Baran and Heidi Blake
“The Runaway Princesses,” a New Yorker Podcast, Exposes the Plight of Dubai’s Royal Women
A four-episode narrative series, from In the Dark, examines why the daughters of the emirate’s ruler have risked their lives to run away. Subscribers get early, ad-free access.
By The New Yorker
A Podcast Memorial Service
The audio industry is in turmoil. But, at an event for “Death, Sex & Money,” voices were still keeping people together.
By Sarah Larson
So Long, “Strike Force Five”
As the W.G.A. strike ends, so does the chatty, chops-busting podcast from Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers. What, if anything, did it teach us?
By Sarah Larson
A Music Podcast Unlike Any Other
Andrew Hickey has embarked on a heroic and wild effort to tell the history of rock music in five hundred songs.
By Bill McKibben