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The first episode of the NPR podcast “White Lies” starts with a lot of truths. Hosts and journalists Chip Brantley and Andrew Beck Grace readily admit that they grew up in “white” Alabama where their communities didn’t readily discuss race. Raised in a generation after the civil rights movement, both men say some parts of…

Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata. Photo: Earwolf The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each one has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the…

Photo: Vulture and Getty Images There is something mysterious and exciting about working in the writers’ room of a late-night show. Maybe it’s because the hosts are presented as these paragons of humanity, so the writers are then like the man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz. There’s enough excitement in the late-night…

There are many things that people count on Color of Change to do and one of them is to tell black stories. The organization is known for amplifying powerful narratives to inspire action and change. Now the president, Rashad Robinson, is doing that with the newly launched podcast #TellBlackStories. The podcast features artists, storytellers, and changemakers…

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The inner monologue of an anxious teenager. A fictional radio story about a robot takeover. An investigative report about teenage climate activists. A personal narrative about what it’s like to have a baby at 15. These are just a few of the winning pieces from our Second Annual Student Podcast Contest, in which we invited…

Politics may be tedious, controversial, full of legalese most regular people can’t understand, and so ripe with screaming opinions that you just want to throw up your hands and cover your ears forever, but in politics as in life, knowledge is power, and it’s important to keep paying attention because politics shape our future and…

There is an ever-growing ocean of podcasts out there that no one has the time to navigate. If you don’t know where to start, where better to look than in your own backyard? If you’re sitting in petrified traffic or taking yet another winding construction-related detour, listen to these Austin-based podcasts to keep your sanity…

Less than six months after releasing the disappointing interactive experiment “Bandersnatch,” Netflix’s science fiction anthology series “Black Mirror” is back with three traditionally-structured episodes. On the latest installment of the Original Content podcast, we weigh in with our thoughts on the new season. We didn’t entirely agree on which episodes were strongest, but we agreed…