Emma hosts Alex Sammon, staff writer at The American Prospect, to discuss his recent piece in the New Republic “IKEA’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest.” Alex dives right into his surprisingly high-risk coverage of the rampant illegal deforestation going on in Europe’s last old-growth forest in Romania, first situating his research within stories relayed to him […]

Rolling Stone’s Guy Lawson explains the distinction between Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel, Mississippi Tea Party leader Mark Mayfield commits suicide, the FBI investigating Rupert Murdoch, the progressive Australian Prime Minister Murdoch destroyed, the tall poppy syndrome, will Murdoch’s crimes catch up with him? The game of access journalism and how Donald Rumsfeld created arms […]