A high-stakes succession battle—rather, dispute—has concluded. Lachlan Murdoch will take over from his father Rupert as the head of Fox and News Corp. Will the new boss be the same as the old boss? Our correspondent looks at kush, a synthetic opioid that is tearing through west Africa. And a look back on the life and style of Giorgio Armani.
We look at the hunt for the killer of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and at the political fallout of his assassination.
Nicholas Bogel-Borroughs, an investigative reporter at The New York Times, discusses why the police are struggling to answer basic questions about the shooter. And Alan Feuer, who covers extremism and political violence, discusses how the assassination might become a turning point for the conservative movement.
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Police ask the public for help to identify the killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Amid bipartisan calls to turn down the political temperature, fingerpointing continues over who is to blame. And a new inflation report shows the impact of tariffs.
In 1977, NASA took advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime alignment of the planets to send two probes to the outermost reaches of the solar system.
They sent back the best images and data yet available about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
The program was a smashing success.
However, the probes didn’t stop traveling. They kept going and going, all the while maintaining contact with Earth. They ended up teaching us far more about the Solar System than we ever expected.
Learn more about the never-ending Voyager Program and how spacecraft half a century old are still performing valuable science on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The inauguration of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam has us looking at how we decide when, where, and even whether to build dams.
But humans aren’t the only ones building dams – Loren Taylor of the Beaver Institute joins us to talk all about nature’s hydroengineers and the wide-spread benefits beavers (and their dams!) have on ecosystems.
Also on the program, how close are we to clean energy from space, the science behind holding your breath for a really, really, really, REALLY long time, and how natural sounds can be turned into musical instruments. All that, plus more unexpected elements.
Presenter: Alex Lathbridge with Andrada Fiscutean and Katie Silver
Producers: Margaret Sessa-Hawkins, Alice Lipscombe-Southwell and Robbie Wojciechowski.
Inspired by leaders such as Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, the online Manosphere has exploded in recent years. Dedicated to anti-feminism, these communities have orchestrated online campaigns of misogynistic harassment, with some individuals going as far as committing violent terrorist attacks.
Although the Manosphere has become a focus point of the media, researchers and governments alike, discussions tend to either over-sensationalize the community or offer simplistic explanations for their existence. This book uses a mixture of historical and economic analysis, alongside actual Manosphere content, to delve deeper. With The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online (Polity, 2025), Simon James Copland explains how the Manosphere has developed and why it appeals to so many men. He argues that the Manosphere is not an aberration, but is deeply embedded within mainstream, neoliberal, social structures. For a cohort of alienated men, the promise of community provides a space of understanding, connection and purpose.
This insightful book dares to dig into the corners of incel communities and online spaces where misogyny thrives. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand, and do something about, this growing and worrying phenomenon.
Simon Copland is Honorary Fellow at the Australian National University.
Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature.
