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Since Aug 2024
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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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."

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How a Tiny Newsroom Helped Bring Down Hungary’s Authoritarian Leader

Jun 11, 2026 47m

Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian grip on Hungary became a model for the American right. He hollowed out the country’s democracy and turned much of the media into a government megaphone. Then a small…

From Drilled: Carbon Cowboys

Jun 04, 2026 31m

While we’re heads down working on a bunch of great new episodes, we’re sharing the first episode of the new season of Drilled. In it, award-winning climate journalist Amy Westervelt exposes how…

‘Kick Him Off The Bench.’ A Judge in Trump’s Pulitzer Case Gets a Prize

May 28, 2026 39m

The Freedom of the Press Foundation just filed an ethics complaint against Florida Judge Jeffrey Kuntz, who has been nominated by President Trump for a lifetime federal court appointment. They want…

Can a Chatbot Convince Conspiracy Theorists of the Truth?

May 21, 2026 26m

Like millions of others, Gordon Pennycook’s older brother has leapt down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, and Gordon says he’s tried to change his brother’s mind, without success. Which…

Claude’s Russian Propaganda Problem

May 14, 2026 31m

According to the fact-checking company NewsGuard, Claude has been a very reliable and accurate chatbot. But in the last month or so, users have started complaining that it seemed to be getting…

Did FEMA Really Build a Secret Lair in a Mountain?

May 07, 2026 51m

The first episode of a special series from On The Media’s Micah Loewinger about how a seemingly benign and important agency, FEMA, has become the subject of some of the wildest conspiracy…

ICE Jailed a Student for an Op-Ed, Now She’s Left America

Apr 30, 2026 1h 23m

In recent days, we learned that Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University grad student who was snatched off the street by masked ICE agents last year and locked up for more than a month, has had enough of…

You Can Bet on Everything Now. What Could Go Wrong?

Apr 23, 2026 48m

Gambling is infiltrating American life. Ads for online sportsbooks are everywhere. Prediction markets – which are not legally considered gambling – now allow betting on everything from the…

The Story She Reported, the View She Buried

Apr 16, 2026 39m

It’s easy to get frustrated with the charade reporters are supposed to keep up, where they pretend they don’t have opinions or feelings or any kind of human thoughts about a story they’re reporting.…

I Was 11 When Instagram Took Over My Life

Apr 09, 2026 42m

Taylor Little was 11 years old when they lied about their age to sign up for Instagram. Now, 13 years later, they’re one of thousands of people suing the company, accusing Instagram of purposely…

Meta Knew They Were Addicting Kids. Now They’re Paying for It.

Apr 02, 2026 32m

In the span of two days, juries handed down landmark verdicts against Meta and Google. In New Mexico, a jury ordered Meta to pay the state $375 million for failing to protect young people from…

A Video So Real It Looks Fake

Mar 26, 2026 28m

Brian sits down with expert fact-checker Sofia Rubinson who spends hours every day tracking lies online, and together they dissect a single lie that’s been rocketing around the world to millions of…

The Case Against Jeremy Loffredo (Ambie Award-winner for Best Reporting of the Year)

Mar 19, 2026 57m

Locked up, alone, accused of being a spy, reporter Jeremy Loffredo has to defend the fact that he’s a journalist. To the Israeli courts. And then…to our reporter.  This is part two of our two-part…

Blindfolded and Arrested on Assignment in Israel (Ambie Award-winner for Best Reporting of the Year)

Mar 12, 2026 58m

Part one of a special, two-part series, about Jeremy Loffredo, the first American journalist ever arrested by Israel, and the questions that were raised about not only Israel, but the outlet Jeremy…

Are We Captured Yet? Now Trump’s Pals Are Taking Over CNN

Mar 10, 2026 39m

News recently broke that Paramount, which is newly controlled by David Ellison and his billionaire dad Larry Ellison, won the bid to buy Warner-Brothers Discovery, after aggressively squeezing out…

The Talented Ms. Goldiee

Mar 05, 2026 28m

When a promising young freelancer pitched a good story to his magazine, editor Nicholas Hune-Brown was ready to assign it. But as he looked more closely at the pitch and the writer’s bylines across…

A Reporter Fights for His Freedom (Part Two)

Feb 26, 2026 53m

After journalist Mario Guevara was arrested while covering an anti-ICE protest, ICE moved him into their detention. As his lawyers and the ACLU tried to get Mario free, ICE argued again and again…

Why did ICE Lock Up this Pro-Trump Reporter? (Part One)

Feb 19, 2026 43m

In June, journalist Mario Guevara was arrested while covering an anti-ICE protest in Georgia, transferred to ICE detention, and locked up by the federal government for more than 100 days. And that…

The Dangers of Being a Journalist

Feb 12, 2026 6m

A little message from host Brian Reed about a scary incident he’s dealing with. And much scarier incidents other journalists are dealing with. Question Everything is a production of KCRW and…

A Minnesota Dad Takes on ICE

Jan 31, 2026 23m

Our managing editor, Kevin Sullivan, had a conversation this week with an old colleague in Minnesota that we wanted to share with you as quickly as we could. He’s a former data journalist, Michael…

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