Prologue

There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it.

Producer Sean Cole scrubs in to observe heart surgeon Dr.

When Adele wrote into our show last summer, she described herself as “the worst phlebotomist in the whole hospital.” Producer Diane Wu couldn’t resist calling her up to find out exactly what she meant by that.

Ira’s story of Yibin Li continues.

Disinformation and propaganda works differently in Putin’s Russia than it did during the Soviet Union.

Protestors came out across Russia after the Ukraine invasion.