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  • A Republican Takes On Her Party Over Voter Data

    October 22, 2026 · 31 min

    Voting in this year’s midterms is already underway. And for the past year leading up to this election, the Trump administration has been pushing to get its hands on every state’s unredacted voter rolls, saying it wants to check for…

  • The A.I. Populist

    October 15, 2026 · 28 min

    Midterm elections are around the corner, and AI is obviously an issue that’s getting a ton of attention from candidates. There are so many thorny questions around this technology, but what do politicians intend to do about it?  Today, we…

  • The High Stakes Game of Bargaining with the News

    October 8, 2026 · 25 min

    Just a few weeks ago, David Ellison and Paramount were staring down the barrel of a $7 million dollar per day fine for every day their merger with Warner Bros was not finalized, with a 12 state class-action antitrust lawsuit standing in…

  • Flock Won’t Answer This One Town’s Simple Question

    October 1, 2026 · 39 min

    Flock Safety’s license plate cameras are in about 6,000 towns across the U.S. But lately, towns have been pulling out of their contracts after all sorts of creepy stories about cops using the cameras to spy on people in their personal…

  • Wait, Did Zuckerberg Get Off Easy?

    September 24, 2026 · 29 min

    A few weeks ago, Meta was in trouble. 47 states plus several U.S. territories were suing the company in federal court for knowingly harming kids with its apps, Instagram and Facebook. Several of the states were in the middle of a trial in…

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  • Introducing: Reaching Out

    September 23, 2026 · 39 min

    Today we’re excited to share a special episode of Reaching Out, a new podcast from Futuro and KCRW. Hailed by Ira Glass as the “best new show I’ve heard in years,” Reaching Out is a story about fathers, sons, and the distance between. The…

  • The Curious Case of the Fake Florida Newsroom

    September 17, 2026 · 43 min

    When Florida reporter Kate Payne stumbled across a local news site called The South Florida Standard, something about it felt off. She’d never heard of the outlet before and didn’t know any of the journalists who were listed on its staff…

  • A Pitch for Why Journalists Need to Fight

    September 10, 2026 · 45 min

    What would it take to actually fix America’s broken journalism industry? Using rural North Carolina as a petri dish, the podcast Scene on Radio spent their latest season, called “The News”, diagnosing how American journalism is failing the…

  • Badass Local Journalists on How to Fight Corruption

    September 3, 2026 · 51 min

    Local reporters from around the country tell stories of using the experiences of their neighbors to confront people in power. Guests: Anna Wolfe with Mississippi Today Lisa Halverstadt with Voice of San Diego Alissa Zhu with The…

  • The Journalist and the Firefighter

    August 27, 2026 · 39 min

    How one of the most accomplished reporters of our time, Barton Gellman, lost his confidence in journalism. Question Everything is a production of KCRW and Placement Theory. Follow us on Instagram: @questionverything.podcast. And don’t…

  • A Gen Z Reporter Questions Jonathan Haidt, author of ‘The Anxious Generation’

    August 20, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    Over the past few months, we’ve been closely covering the major lawsuits against Meta over the ways its apps have hurt young people.  This week, we’re sharing a special episode of "Left To Their Own Devices", a Peabody-nominated series…

  • Judge Compares Meta to a Factory Emitting ‘Noxious Pollution’ in a Landmark Ruling

    August 13, 2026 · 36 min

    Just hours after we dropped last week’s episode on New Mexico’s landmark trial against Meta, Judge Bryan Biedsheid issued his ruling on what changes the company would have to make to Facebook and Instagram to better protect kids. He…

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About the show

Question Everything is a weekly investigation into how the truth gets buried, distorted, and denied -- and the ways people are fighting to make it matter again. Hosted by Brian Reed, of S-Town and This American Life. Winner of the Webby Award, Ambie Award, and a Signal Special Achievement Award for pushing "the boundaries of the medium."