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TV Roundup: 'House of Cards' is Back If the incessant television coverage of the presidential campaign hasn’t sated the political junkies out there, Kevin Spacey has come to the rescue. “House of Cards” is back and the binge-watching has begun. We talk about that and more in our regular Monday TV roundup this week.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
TV Roundup On Friday , the Republican National Committee canceled a February debate that was supposed to be hosted by NBC and sister station Telemundo. They pulled the plug because of so-called gotcha questions in last week’s CNBC debate. So is this a big setback for NBC? How much do these debates matter to the networks?
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Los Angeles’ Car Chase Culture In 1994, 95 million people tuned in to watch O.J. Simpson’s slow-motion police chase live on television. This past weekend, the Los Angeles Times released an investigative report about car chases, which found that the LAPD leads the state in bystander injuries. One in 10 LAPD pursuits results in injury to a bystander. We rewind the clock to examine how the car chase became such a cultural institution in this city in the first place.
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
What both sides of the US-Mexico border look like as migrants arrive The migrant caravan has started arriving at the border. Thousands are expected over the coming days in Tijuana, where there has already been violence between locals and migrants. North of the border, some 6000 U.S. troops have been waiting. We visit both sides.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Rep. Schiff’s priorities for the House Intelligence Committee In January, Burbank Congressman Adam Schiff is expected to be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. We ask what investigations he will open, and what recourse there will be if Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker shuts down Mueller’s Russia probe.
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The New World Where do speech balloons come from? How does time move from panel to panel? This week we explore the techniques of comic-book storytelling through Chris Reynolds’s graphic series, newly anthologized as The New World. Join us as we travel deep into the artist’s world to find the source of these bizarrely mundane comics’ depth and beauty.