Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Baby monitoring tech also collects data
28/09/2026 | 53 mins.
Plus, Trump’s new TV ad was funded by taxpayers, how cuts to Medicaid are impacting some California hospitals, and Chuck Klosterman’s alternative history of alternative rock.
The tension and division when home ownership is out of reach
24/09/2026 | 52 mins.
Plus, the EPA permanently restores grants to UC researchers whose funding it stripped, our weekend film reviews, and we sent lifelong Angeleno Evan Kleiman to find the best Texas-style food in L.A.
West Nile on the rise in LA. How concerned should we be?
23/09/2026 | 52 mins.
Plus, Latino voters may be swinging back to Democrats, Emily St. John Mandel’s new book is set in dystopian Los Angeles in the not-too-distant future, and the case for starting holiday prep in September.
Min Jin Lee on betrayal, class struggle in the Korean diaspora
22/09/2026 | 52 mins.
Plus, ICE stopped disclosing where it's holding thousands of undocumented immigrants, a new documentary features the oldest people in the world, and coyote sightings light up an Encino group chat.
Settlement clears the way for Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
21/09/2026 | 51 mins.
Plus, news outlets banned from the White House sue on First Amendment grounds, Gov. Newsom declares a state of emergency due to El Niño, and a scathing review of a mostly-AI hip-hop album.