Category: 3-DailySometimeCommentary

Is there something fishy about the way Hunter Biden made money while his father was serving as vice president? One reporter looked into it. But he didn’t find corruption. He found something far more complicated -- and commonplace.

Guest: Adam Entous, staff writer for the New Yorker. Read his piece on Hunter Biden. 

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Ethan Brooks.

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Over the weekend, multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on charges of sex trafficking. But back in 2003, journalist Vicky Ward had the inside scoop on Epstein: She interviewed two of his victims and wrote up the story for Vanity Fair. And then, her editor spiked the allegations from the story. This is the story of how Epstein used his connections to evade scrutiny... again and again.

Guest: Journalist Vicky Ward. Her latest book is Kushner, Inc. 

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Ethan Brooks.

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At a prison in southern Mississippi, guards can’t do basic population counts. They can’t keep cellphones, drugs, and weapons out of the building. They are at the mercy of gang leaders to control the inmates. Is this just what happens when you try to do corrections on the cheap?

Guests: Joseph Neff and Alysia Santo, staff writers for the Marshall Project. Read their story on Wilkinson County Correctional Facility. 

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Ethan Brooks.

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